Category Archives: Brain Science

Changing ourselves and others

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

What is a better way to save the world: trying to change others’ minds or instead focus on changing yourself? [ 20/April/23 ] We all need to do both. We are facing many new classes of risk, and the strategic … Continue reading →

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Characteristics of the human mind

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Human Mind [ 29/March/23 Walter Kant asked:Does the human mind have the following characteristics? We are extremely complex. Far more complex than most have ever considered the possibility of. Of necessity, our brains need to simplify the information they receive … Continue reading →

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Synaptic connection/computation /AI

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

Giovanni posted a graph of brain synaptic connection/computation [ 24/January/23 ] The misunderstanding is that all human cognition is based on synaptic connection. Within synapses, individual proteins act as pattern generators and pattern integrators. This extends the capacity of the … Continue reading →

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John Carmack – Lex – Programming

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Ted Howard NZ

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309 [ 10/December/22 ] Loved the discussion (as usual). I really like the way John describes programming thinking about the full stack, from the hardware … Continue reading →

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Path to happiness?

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

Lifeboat link to AI idenifies path to happiness [ 10/July/22 ] Why focus on happiness? Happiness is “just” a set of genetically encoded valences that did, on average, over the deep time and context sets of our ancestors, tend to … Continue reading →

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The Mind

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 4/July/22 Paul Lowe posted – “The mind only exists in the human mind”. What do you think? True or false? Please clarify your answer.] All depends what you mean by those words. For me, it seems beyond reasonable doubt … Continue reading →

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On narcissism and classification

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

Daniel posted a link to The 15 types of Narcissism (and their characteristics) [ 18/June/22 ] Hi Daniel, A few years ago a psychologist gave me the label “Autistic” and my wife the label “Neurotypical”. To some extent, those labels … Continue reading →

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The dangers of Truth

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

What if we were all wrong? [ 8/June/22 ] We are almost certainly all wrong about some aspects of any non-trivial understanding we have of reality. Reality seems to be sufficiently complex, and contain sufficient classes of fundamental uncertainties and … Continue reading →

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The brain

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

[8/June/22 Reply to Will’s link to a comment thread on brains being 3 lbs of fat.] Yeah – some truth in that. The energy efficiency of brain systems are amazing. The computational complexity of the system is mind numbing. Over … Continue reading →

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Rat park, addiction and sex

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

Ngaio shared a link to a Humanity project post on addiction [ 7/June/22 ] A lot of truth in that. One bit that doesn’t make sense, is that in the rat example, sex is given as a part of normal … Continue reading →

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