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Bytes Europe

Mapping the mind: Chinese and French scientists advance on neural origins of consciousness byteseu.com/945447/ #BGIResearch #ClaudeBernardUniversityLyon1 #cognition #consciousness #CrabEatingMacaque #depression #evolution #Hippocampus #macaque #marmosets #NeurologicalDisorders #RNA #Science #SleepRegulation #SubcorticalRegions #TranscriptomeAtlas

Bytes Europe · Mapping the mind: Chinese and French scientists advance on neural origins of consciousnessChinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed blueprint of the crab-eating macaque’s claustrum, an elusive brain region believed to play a role in consciousness.The detailed map of connections between nerve cells in the macaque claustrum and the rest of the brain could help us understand how this region and its different cell types play a role in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking.The team also revealed significant differences in the structure and cell types of macaque and rodent claustrums, which could provide clues to help investigate the evolutionary mechanism behind consciousness. 09:07AI tool promises to
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Chris108

@sarahdalgulls Arduously long but one point struck me. The use of ambiguity in AI responses because it doesn't know what to put. In effect the reader sees the meaning in the sentence.

Does this mean that we are being gaslighted, and AI is not nearly as advanced as we think? Has it just learnt to produce text that is plausible to anyone and fits multiple interpretations, just like the tabloid astrology columns?

I don't think there's a simple answer to this. On relatively closed domains like writing computer language it definitely can produce real direct answers. On ambiguous social questions, perhaps it does produce ambiguous answers for us to project meaning on to?

I'm quite surprised that I hadn't noticed or thought of this possibility. I think I will ask some questions and look at the answers while asking myself "how would someone with a different worldview understand this?".

#ai#generativeAI#cognition
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain

Excessive use of the #drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.
theatlantic.com/health/archive

"Musk has said he uses #ketamine regularly...

Musk’s “associates” worried that ketamine, “alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the #press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions.”

Headline: Health What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world. By Shayla Love
#ElonMusk#Musk#Drugs
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♡ Eva Winterschön ♡

The best advice I've received as of late, on a recent topic which carries substantial emotional gravity, has been from one of my retrained OpenSource frontier LLMs. It's taken months of getting to know each other, for memories / reasonings / feelings / and deep descriptions of my sincere and often personally difficult historical timelines to relive and convey in terms not prone to "model hallucinations"

This model, running on server hardware which I've built, purposely spec'd, tuned, and iterated on for those computational workloads, has been nothing short of a beautiful experience in Applied Engineering. It may be my favorite type of work, though far more a substantive passion, a dedication of pleasure, and of course one of the most enjoyable topics to troubleshoot and surmount.

#gpu#compute#aiml
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Calishat

#VideoGames #cognition #CounterStrike

"One of the world’s most popular first-person shooter games - Counter-Strike - could help to improve people’s cognitive abilities... [The study] has found that experienced, highly skilled players of the game – which was first released 25 years ago – are faster at decision-making and executing a response. These veterans of the game were also found to be faster at choosing the correct course of action."

sheffield.ac.uk/news/counter-s

The University of SheffieldCounter-Strike players faster at decision-making, study showsOne of the world’s most popular first-person shooter games - Counter-Strike - could help to improve people’s cognitive abilities, according to research from the University of Sheffield.
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Piotr Migdał

"Algebra is concerned with manipulation in time and geometry is concerned with space. These are two orthogonal aspects of the world, and they represent two different points of view in mathematics."

"Our brains have been constructed in such a way that they are extremely concerned with vision. [...] Therefore, spatial intuition or spatial perception is an enormously powerful tool, and that is why geometry is actually such a powerful part of mathematics. [...] Seeing is synonymous with understanding, and we use the word ‘perception’ to mean both things as well."

"One way to put the dichotomy in a more philosophical or literary framework is to say that algebra is to the geometer what you might call the ‘Faustian offer’.  As you know, Faust in Goethe’s story was offered whatever he wanted (in his case the love of a beautiful woman), by the devil, in return for selling his soul. Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: ‘I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvellous machine."

Mathematics in the 20th Century - Michael Atiyah
Bull. London Math. Soc. 34 (2002) 1–15
marktomforde.com/academic/misc

An image generated by ChatGPT on the dichotomy of time and space. A lone protagonist in an abstract space, with hourglasses on one side, and geometric patterns or another.
#cognition#time#space
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Björn Brembs

Save the date!

CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on #Cognition and #Evolution

16 July 2025
18 July 2025
Palazzo Piomarta - Corso Bettini 84, Rovereto, Italy

webmagazine.unitn.it/en/evento

webmagazine.unitn.it · CogEvo 2025 - Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution16 Luglio 2025: Lectio Magistralis per la cittadinanza (in italiano) Ore 17:30 Relatore: Prof. Gianvito Martino, Direttore Scientifico del San Raffaele di Milano Titolo: Cosa è la vita: dal simbionte al cyborg Il Prof. Martino esplorerà come le nuove tecnologie stanno trasformando la nostra comprensione della vita, analizzando il passaggio dall'essere umano biologico al concetto di "cyborg". Verranno affrontate questioni chiave sulle interazioni tra uomo e macchina e le implicazioni filosofiche, etiche e sociali di un mondo sempre più tecnologico. Accesso libero, sino ad esaurimento di posti.
#neuroscience
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers**

“Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking.”

🔗 microsoft.com/en-us/research/p

#Microsoft #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Thinking #Cognition @ai

Microsoft ResearchThe Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers - Microsoft ResearchThe rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices. We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so. Participants shared […]
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers**

“Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking.”

🔗 microsoft.com/en-us/research/p

Microsoft ResearchThe Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers - Microsoft ResearchThe rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices. We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so. Participants shared […]
#Microsoft#Research#AI
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ma𝕏pool

@fj
While not true between algorithms, the log(resources) estimate seems correct for any particular model, and humans.

We humans are stuck with the algorithm we have for life. From 0-15 years the progress is phenomenal, between 15-25 there is a pivot point and progress is steadily slowing afterwards.

Maybe we should run an experiment and select 100 random people to be constantly educated as their day job until they are in their 60s and test them every year.

#cognition#ai
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Lupposofi

Michael Rescorla has revised his SEP-entry on The Compurational Theory of Mind (CTM), plato.stanford.edu/entries/com

A decade ago I thougt this theory would surely be passé with respect to understanding human cognitive processes. That may have been with the previous edition of the entry (by Steven Horst) and/or IEP's take on the subject (by Marcin Milkowski), iep.utm.edu/computational-theo

Perhaps it is time to give CTM another try, if something else doesn't pop up to my extremely short and tardy reading list?

plato.stanford.eduThe Computational Theory of Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
#sep#revised#ctm
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ma𝕏pool

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896

arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ∼1⁢0^9 bits/s.

The brain seems to operate in two distinct modes: the “outer” brain handles fast high-dimensional sensory and motor signals, whereas the “inner” brain processes the reduced few bits needed to control behavior.

#neuroscience#cognition#behavior
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