mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchHersenvorser, Brain explorer
R. Feynman: I’m an explorer? I get curious about everything, and I want to investigate all kinds of stuff.
I have been a psychopharmacologist and professor of Biological Aspects of Psychopathology until my retirement in 2013. Now I study the brain and write short assays, see my website. I am also writing a book (provisional title: Our Brain, the Body of the Mind). I use mastodon to keep up with developments in the field. Please post your publications with #neuroscience. I endorse Tootfinder which is an Opt-in global Mastodon full text search.
RE: @thetransmitter@mastodon.social
Quite a few citations of Anthropic are questionable. E.g. "Claude “uses functional emotions—patterns of expression and behavior modeled after human emotions, which are driven by underlying abstract representations of emotion concepts". I don't think emotions are driven by underlying abstract representations of emotion concepts.
For emotions you first need feelings, from a body, I presume. So Claude cannot develop something like emotions.
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...
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.
@bryankam@writing.exchange
Do you know the work of Wolfgang Stegemann?
eg:
Stegemann W (2026): The mechanism of phenomenal experience DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18259822
It resonates with your
Kam B, Granic I (2026): Neither/nor: a pragmatic philosophy for oscillating between conceptual and experiential knowledge. Humanit Soc Sci Commun DOI: 10.1057/s41599-026-06669-3
Thx Paul for a very informative and inspired Brain Inspired.
https://braininspired.co/podcast/234/
#neuroscience #reductionism (not) #behaviour
This why in Italy and Spain the general health is so much better than in our more nordic european countries. Or is it?
#BrainHealth #Dementia #MediterraneanDiet #MindDiet #HealthyAging #Nutrition #Neuroscience #Wellness #Diet #PublicHealth #HealthyLifestyle #FoodScience #Aging #Memory #Health
In Mice! Mice with traumatic brains and PTSD-related depression?
#Neuroscience #Psilocybin #Neuroplasticity #BrainHealth #MedicalResearch #Psychopharmacology
@PessaoBrain do you know publicationsn of Wolfgang Stegemann?
Any Thoughts?
eg
Stegemann W (2026): The mechanism of phenomenal experience DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18259822
eg one sentence:
"The thalamus acts as a resonance organ that couples distributed cortical processes in real time and thus stabilizes the inseparable dynamics of consciousness."
Philip Ball:
"There’s a broader issue at stake here too that pertains to the place of AI in scientific research. Too often now, we hear claims of how AI will replace human scientists and, in doing so, will solve our most pressing problems: curing all disease, solving climate change, figuring out how to conduct nuclear fusion. 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."
https://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/alpha-genome
RE: @AndyHab@c.im
Aging can't be reversed!
Do I get a year off on my next birthday? So what do they mean? That all the processes that change with me aging can be reversed?
