Gert @Gert@qoto.org

Interview with Warren S. McCulloch [1969]
#ai #history #neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe87_ZWObQs

An emerging model of intelligence finds flexible problem-solving capabilities at the cellular level and beyond – and it threatens to upend not just biology and genetics, but medicine, AI and consciousness research, among other things.
#ai #biology #neuroscience
https://newatlas-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/newatlas.com/biology/levin-bioelectricity-cellular-intelligence-dna/?amp=true

#neuroscience #consciousness
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154624000792

Brain health in diverse settings: How age, demographics and cognition shape brain function
#neuroscience #brain #social
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120636

«Before blaming digital technology, we should perhaps consider the fact that its specific use is dictated and conditioned by the contemporary model of society in which the same technology is produced and used. Our western capitalist model speaks more of individuals than of groups, praises self-empowerment and competition at the expense of solidarity, leading people to an ever-growing anxious fight for self-promotion.»

#digital #mediascape #digitalnatives #embodiedsimulation #intersubjectivity #psychopathology
#neuroscience

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540261.2024.2355281

Theoretical strategies for an embodied cognitive neuroscience: Mechanistic explanations of brain-body-environment systems
#neuroscience
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2024.2349546

#neuroscience
https://neurosciencenews.com/neurotech-spinal-cord-wrap-26088/

Sleep’s Role in Emotional Health
#neuroscience #emotions #sleep
https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-emotional-health-26046/

«I increasingly believe that memory – even if accurate – is much closer to an act of the imagination than one of straight physiological recall.»
#art #neuroscience
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n09/julian-barnes/diary

Questo è un classico esempio di come trasferire (automaticamente e in modo arbitrario) il modello della memoria come bits di informazione al sistema nervoso fino a sviluppare un modello che alla fine ha poco o nulla a che fare con l'umano. Stando alla ipotesi poi gli elefanti dovrebbero avere sviluppato un linguaggio e funzioni cognitive ancora più evolute delle nostre.
L'ipotesi del sistema nervoso nato per "esfoliazione" da microcircuiti svincolati dalle funzioni di immediata sopravvivenza fu avanzata già dal matematico René Thom (Modelli matematici della morfogenesi, Einaudi) ma almeno lì c'era un minimo di originalità.
#neuroscience
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-neuro-101222-110632

#neuroscience
https://neurosciencenews.com/pronoun-language-belief-25998/

"This paper examines the relationship between societal structures shaped by traditions, norms, laws, and customs, and creative expressions in arts and media through the lens of the predictive coding framework in cognitive science."
#art #neuroscience
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1357354/full

I think would be better to say "reacts" than "responds", as the brain Is not a person.
#neuroscience #art
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-responds-to-beauty/

"rapid gamma waves often originate in outer layers, whereas slower alpha and beta waves arise in the deeper ones. This holds true across 14 cortical regions and four species, including humans."
#neuroscience #brain
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-extensive-brain-wave-patterns/

Empathy Begins in Infancy
#emotions #neuroscience #empathy
https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-infancy-25821/

Questa è notevole.
Una ricerca sul ruolo dell’attività di routine del "tocco di sé" (autopercezione) nell'infante è fondamentale per stabilire una rappresentazione del corpo proprio e sposta la dinamica di sviluppo dell’autoconsapevolezza umana radicandola nell’azione autodiretta.
La percezione/consapevolezza di sé è a fondamento della consapevolezza del mondo esterno.
L'attuale AI è tutta costruita non solo su un modello superato della organizzazione nervosa - vedi la critica della Hurley al 'sandwich model of the mind' - ma è orientata esclusivamente (e non potrebbe essere diversamente) alla percezione di dati esterni.
La solita canzoncina (ripetuta anche da Cristianini) secondo cui la AI non va intesa in senso umano diventa chiaramente manipolatoria. Non si capisce perché dovremmo continuare a chiamare "intelligenza" ciò che più autenticamente è solo "automazione".
#neuroscience #ai #consciousness
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982224001702

«Our results demonstrate that self-touch functions as an intermodal gateway through which infants learn how to localize and reach to stimuli on their bodies, including those that can only be seen in a mirror. These findings identify an overlooked role for the routine activity of self-touch in establishing a representation of the body and suggest that the development of human self-awareness is rooted in self-directed action.»
#neuroscience #consciousness
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)00170-2

The process and mechanisms of personality change
#psychology #neuroscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-024-00295-z

#neuroscience #cognition
https://currentsciencedaily.com/stories/632512856-london-u-s-scientists-suggest-cognition-far-more-than-neuron-processing-in-the-brain

#neuroscience #psychology
https://neurosciencenews.com/transcendent-thinking-neurodevelopment-25771/