• Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future.

    Updated: 2024-12-31 19:38:26
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Saturday , September 28, 2024 Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future . From Nathan Gardels , editor of Noema Magazine : From Mass To Distributed Weapons Of Destruction The recent lethal attacks attributed to Israel that exploded pagers and walkie-talkies dispersed among thousands of Hezbollah militants announces a new capacity in the history of warfare for distributed destruction . Before the massive bombing raids that have since ensued , the terror-stricken population of Lebanon had been unplugging any device with batteries or a power source linked to a communication network

  • Tokens of sanity

    Updated: 2024-12-31 19:38:26
    -Being a calm space in which nothing can hurry -An animal body that pretends to be human -Dissociating from the word cloud and emotional reactivities of self and other selves. -A courteous guest in one’s own body and when with others, owning one’s own experience and letting others own theirs. -Favoring reflectivity over reactivity, caressing novelty -Clinging to nothing, the current self being a passing fantasy -Letting each moment be what it is, not what it should be -A blip in the flow of cosmic time

  • A caustic review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

    Updated: 2024-12-31 19:38:26
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Sunday , September 15, 2024 A caustic review of Yuval Harari's Nexus I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green , fellow of the Royal Historical Society , that appeared in the Sept . 13 issue of the Wall Street Journal . He offers several caustic comments on ideas offered in Yuval Harari's most recent book , Nexus Groucho Marx said there are two types of people in this world : those who think people can be divided up into two types , and those who don’t . 8221 In Nexus , 8221 the Israeli historian-philosopher Yuval Noah Harari divides us into a naive and populist type and another type that he

  • Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

    Updated: 2024-12-30 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 30, 2024 Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow Their abstract , followed by a quote from Emerson , and then a summary graphic . How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or with psychedelics promote mental and physical health Our proposal in this article is awe . To make this argument , we first review recent advances in the scientific study of awe , an emotion often considered ineffable and beyond measurement . Awe

  • Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

    Updated: 2024-12-26 15:12:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , December 26, 2024 Oliver Sacks The Machine Stops A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read : I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before his death from cancer , in which he notes the parallels between the modern world he sees around him and E.M.Forster's prescient classic 1909 short story The Machine Stops , in which Forster imagined a future in which humans lived in separate cells , communicating only by audio and visual devices much like today the patrons of a bar at happy hour are more likely to looking at their cells phones than chatting

  • Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

    Updated: 2024-12-23 14:59:00
    : : : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 23, 2024 Steven Fry : AI : A Means to an End or a Means to Our End I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this link to a brilliant lecture by Steven . Fry It is an engaging and entertaining analysis , steeped in relevant history and precedents , of ways we might be heading into the future . nbsp Here is just one clip from the : piece We cling on to the fierce hope that the one feature machines will never be able to match is our imagination , our ability to penetrate the minds and feelings of others . We feel immeasurably enriched by this as individuals and as

  • Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain.

    Updated: 2024-12-18 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , December 18, 2024 Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain . Fascinating work from Iordan et . al open source I pass on the abstract and the first paragraph of the article that makes more clear what they are . doing Abstract Learning requires changing the brain . This typically occurs through experience , study , or instruction . We report an alternate route for humans to acquire visual knowledge , through the direct sculpting of activity patterns in the human brain that mirror those expected to arise through learning . We used neurofeedback from closed-loop real-time

  • Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time

    Updated: 2024-12-16 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 16, 2024 Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time Di Marco et . al open source do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , Voat , Reddit , Usenet , Gab , and Telegram focusing on their complexity and temporal shifts in a dataset of 300 million English comments over 34 years.Their : abstract Understanding the impact of digital platforms on user behavior presents foundational challenges , including issues related to polarization , misinformation dynamics , and variation in news consumption . Comparative

  • Prenatal Exposure to Cannabis and Risk of Autism in Children

    Updated: 2024-12-16 00:00:46
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  • Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - how to deal with farting cows...

    Updated: 2024-12-12 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , December 12, 2024 Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods how to deal with farting cows . I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and plant sourced food . After a balanced lead article by Qaim et . al a following article that really caught my eye was Mitigating methane emissions in grazing beef cattle with a seaweed-based feed additive : Implications for climate-smart agriculture First line of it's abstract is This study suggests that the addition of pelleted bromoform-containing seaweed Asparagopsis

  • Announcing “So Glad You Asked”: A Groundbreaking Podcast for Maternal Mental Health

    Updated: 2024-12-12 00:00:11
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  • Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals

    Updated: 2024-12-10 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Tuesday , December 10, 2024 Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals From Lee et al . Highlights Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions During fixations , neural populations signal the social status of attended individuals Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals Summary Successful integration into a hierarchical social group requires knowledge of the status of each individual and of the rules that govern social interactions within the group . In species that lack morphological

  • An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling

    Updated: 2024-12-09 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 09, 2024 An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling Work of Sani et . al open access is reported in the Oct . 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience . From the editor's : summary Neural dynamics are complex and simultaneously relate to distinct behaviors . To address these challenges , Sani et al . have developed an AI framework termed DPAD that achieves nonlinear dynamical modeling of neural–behavioral data , dissociates behaviorally relevant neural dynamics , and localizes the source of nonlinearity in the dynamical model . What DPAD does is visualized as separating the overall

  • Battle of the Bots - AI gets creative with Brain Hacks

    Updated: 2024-12-07 15:09:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Saturday , December 07, 2024 Battle of the Bots AI gets creative with Brain Hacks This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking ChatGPT , 4o Perplexity Gemini+ advanced and Anthropic which does not offer links to its responses to expand my MindBlog's Brain Hacks post into a more complete essay that offers more background and context . nbsp They responded with slightly different styles and impressive results that required tweaking for only a few small errors . nbsp I thought my more concise text was more inviting , and didn't see anything really new , so my next prompt which I had asked

  • Magnetic soft microrobots for erectile dysfunction therapy!

    Updated: 2024-12-06 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , December 06, 2024 Magnetic soft microrobots for erectile dysfunction therapy I can't resist passing on these abstracts describing work reported by a large number of researchers at South China University of Technology , Guangzhou International Campus . I wonder if the results obtained with both both rat and beagle ED models will eventually prove relevant to 82 year old retired professors Significance Erectile dysfunction ED a prevalent form of sexual dysfunction , significantly affects fertility and quality of life . Mesenchymal stromal cell MSC therapies show promise for ED treatment , yet

  • The Future of Warfare

    Updated: 2024-12-05 14:54:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , December 05, 2024 The Future of Warfare Passing on an article from today's WSJ that I want to save , using MindBlog as my personal : archive OpenAI Forges Tie-Up To Defense Industry OpenAI the artificial-intelligence company behind Chat-GPT , is getting into the business of . war The world’s most valuable AI company has agreed to work with Anduril , Industries a leading defense-tech startup , to add its technology to systems the U.S . military uses to counter drone attacks . The partnership , which the companies announced Wednesday , marks OpenAI’s deepest involvement yet with the Defense

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