Deric's MindBlog

The Age of De-Skilling

I am not my problem

Is the current AI frenzy a bubble certain to crash? - a check in with disagreebot.bom

The illusion of judgment in LLMs

The 2025 Ig Nobel prizewinners in full

Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

Platforms like X and TikTok are destroying our culture.

Evolved mental errors that underlie our current cultural and political malaise

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - non-dual awareness as the opiate of the thinking classes.

Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

How Humans Work - an integrated model

The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby

Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation

A Materialist's Credo

Rethinking how our brains work.

The case against reality

Resetting my brain…

Selected MindBlog posts on defining what our human self or "I" is.

Why You Are Probably An NPC (Non playing character)

AI is a Mass-Delusion Event - and - Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress

Gaze patterns can serve as a sensitive marker of cognitive decline

Predictability and the pleasure of music

A brain-computer interface that reads inner thoughts.

Polarization may be inherent in social media

Points on having a self and free will.

The number of fake scientific journal articles is doubling every year and a half.

A 25 year study of what distingiushes 'Super-Agers'

Face (e)motion and the third visual pathway.

Why we put off things we enjoy doing.

The coming societal collapse