Peter Moleman

Would an explanation of how constraints work not be essential to help people understand this?

Dor-Ziderman Y, Schweitzer Y, Nave O, Trautwein F-M, Fulder S, Lutz A, et al. (2025): Training the embodied self in its impermanence: meditators evidence neurophysiological markers of death acceptance. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025:niaf002.

The abstract capacity to consciously predict, simulate, and actively prepare for an uncertain future can be argued to be humanity’s primary adaptive strength. However, and perhaps uniquely, it also carries with it the existential certainty of inevitable mortality...

In the 60s it was normal to have secretaries, paid by your employer, available for all to do these tasks. Has been entirely defunded. That is stupid, because these secretaries were much more efficient in these tasks.

I thought Einstein was born, not created.....

I'm so done with these "serious errors of judgement". It was no secret, after 2008, who and what he was.

From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processi…

One of the coolest papers I’ve ever read

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for exam...

Such claims are never supported by experts in those fields—and that’s not because they want to convince us that they are indispensable after all. Rather, it is generally because they know that the bottlenecks are not ones AI can address."
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/alpha-g...

"There’s a broader issue at stake here that pertains to the place of AI in scientific research. Too often, we hear claims of how AI will replace human scientists and [...] will solve our most pressing problems: curing all disease, solving climate change, figuring out how to conduct nuclear fusion.

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for exam...

If you are not an expert on how our DNA works and how it forms who we are: read this masterpiece of Philip Ball:
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/alpha-g...

I'm gonna repeat my comment.

Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

Here is the direct link to the Open Access book. The "book pdf" downloads the whole book, or there are links for individual chapters too.
doi.org/10.7551/mitp...

Wow.

I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.

I fully agree with the citation.

Brief van de hoofdredactie: over de mythe van ‘neutrale’ verslaggeving in een wereld vol leugens In een tijd waarin autoritaire machthebbers liegen zonder schaamte, zien we hoe ‘neutraliteit’ vaak wordt opgevat als het netjes doorgeven van alle claims, ook als ze aantoonbaar onwaar zijn. Bij De C...

Het NOS Journaal is medeplichtig aan de verspreiding van propaganda. Lees:
decorrespondent.nl/16725/brief-...

I did not understand the work of Jakob Hohwy: too difficult for my mind. But now started reading "The Self-Evidencing Agent". I start to understand him!

Science must be human-understandable!

‪Kevin Mitchell‬
‪@wiringthebrain.bsky.social‬
Gave a talk on free will the other day and got what is an increasingly common question: isn't my mind really being controlled by my gut microbiome? 🤪

This is the simplest and convincing counter of the present hype!

Kazuo Ishiguro
The remains of the day
or
Klara and the sun
Although... a real plot?

Well, stop looking at all and everyone of these! Not possible? Just do it and you see it is!

Testimonial quote on black background with yellow quotation marks reading "Kagi brings fun and life back to search engines." attributed to Derek Beyer

Kagi members say it best.

Cuffed, caged, cast away: this is Europe’s ‘innovative solution’ for unwanted migrants Somewhere in rural Albania stands a cage. A gigantic cage, containing not animals, but people.

decorrespondent.nl/16676/cuffed...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Goed plan. Meedoen!

Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i

Cool new paper from Kiana Ward, putting Buddhist accounts of Non-Dual Awareness into dialogue with constraint closure to provide a robust elaboration of the predictive processing line that altered states involve the relaxation of higher-level predictions.

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

YouTube video by CBC News FULL SPEECH | 'The old order is not coming back': PM says Canada must build strength at home

Watching this felt like watching history.

Waar blijft Nederlad?

That's the mystery: why that over-specification? The "Stone Age mind" trope comes from the idea that our minds are slaves to genes rather than key elements of our agency.