I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that the “Hard Problem” of consciousness is a fabrication...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/04/an-expanded-view-of-human-minds-and.html
Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions , I want to pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie MindBlog readers) a few links to the world of decentraliz...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/04/the-world-of-decentralized-everything.html
I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year: “The Summer of Protocols.” Some background for this project can be found in his essay “In Search of Hardness �...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/04/new-protocols-for-uncertain-times.html
I want to point to an excellent New Yorker article by Patrick House titled “The Lifelike Illusion of A.I. ” The article strikes home for me, for when a Chat Bot responds to one of my pr...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/04/our-seduction-by-ais-believable-human.html
More information (summarized here ) on what is happening in our brains while we sleep is provided by Jiang-Xie et al. ,, who show that active neurons can stimulate the clearance of their own meta...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/04/neurons-help-flush-waste-out-of-our.html
Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al. and a commentary on the work by Schechtman. Here is the Lutz. et al. abstract: SIGNIFICANCE Real-life events usually consist of multiple elements...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/04/when-memories-get-complex-sleep-comes.html
I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture : (You really should read the whole article......
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/how-communication-technology-has.html
This video from The Economist is one of the best I have seen for a popular audience. Hopefully the basic facts presented are slowly seeping throughout our culture..
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/brain-changes-over-our-lifetime.html
Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al. on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of PNAS note this study on the importance of the social ...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/if-you-want-to-remember-landscape-be.html
I have to pass on this link , sent to me by my techie son, Jonathan:
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/the-magic-of-spurious-correlations.html
I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some clips from this technology essay in The Wall Street Journal th...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/fundamentally-changing-nature-of-war.html
I want to pass on this lucid posting by "Sean L" of Boston to the community.wakingup.com site : THE PHYSICS OF NONDUALITY In this context I mean “nonduality” as it refers to there being ...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/the-physics-of-non-duality.html
This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE tokens. The cash value of the MOBILE tokens earned si...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/an-inexpensive-helium-mobile-5g.html
I am writing this post, as is frequently the case, for myself to be able to look up in the future, as well as for MindBlog techie readers who might stumble across it. It describes my setup of a G...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/mindblog-becomes-g5-cellular-hotspot-in.html
Jaron Lanier does a piece in The New Yorker titled "How to Picture A.I. " (if you hit the paywall by clicking the link, try opening an 'empty tab" on your browser, then copy and paste in the URL ...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/how-ais-gpt-engines-work-laniers-forest.html
A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : SIGNIFICANCE > From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been > at the center of bonding human groups...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/explaining-evolution-of-gossip.html
Ryali et al. do a massive analysis that argues strongly against the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization, and underscore the crucial role of sex as a biological determinant in...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/deep-learning-models-reveal-sex.html
We all create our experienced selves from autobiographical reasoning based on remembered events in stories from our lives. In the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience D'Argembeau...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/brains-creating-stories-of-selves.html
I pass on this link from the latest Human Bridges newsletter, and would encourage readers to subscribe to and support the Observatory's Human Bridges project , which is part of the Independent M...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/03/the-hidden-history-of-debt.html
I'm passing on the abstract I just received of a forthcoming article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that I am starting to have a look through. Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/02/what-is-society-importance-of-building.html
I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times, that describe the increasing "complexification" or "enjunkification" of our online lives. The first is "The Year Millennials Aged Ou...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/02/the-enjunkification-of-our-online-lives.html
I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (open access) and show the Highlights and Abstract of the article below. One of the coauthors, Steven Kotler, who is e...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/02/using-caffeine-to-induce-flow-states.html
I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by Aneesh Raman, a work force expert at LinkedIn, and Maria Flynn, president of Jobs for the Future , For readers blocked by th...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/02/ai-makes-our-humanity-matter-more-than.html
I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures who study generative models of sentient behavior in li...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/02/comparing-how-generative-ai-and-living.html
I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google. Here's the abstract describing a "working memory" system vastly greater than our own, that can hold 10 million tokens (a 'token'...
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2024/02/gemini-15-unlocking-multimodal.html