Mind-Infrastructure🧠 Our brain doesn’t even fit in our brainYou simplify to think; the trap is when you forget the cut and treat it as law.People pass on brain metaphors in short form (computer, prediction machine). Repeat the comparison and like turns into is: one small slice gets sold as the whole mind.“How does the brain work?” The answer depends on what you need it for: a mechanism, reassurance, or a fundable story.📄 Read the article
Mind-Infrastructure🐀🤖 Rats preview paths, chimps bluff rivals, AI scores on empathy probes without empathyWhen a rat pauses at a maze junction, its brain cells fire in a sequence matching the paths it could take, simulating the future before it moves.Animals can experience regret. When they make a bad choice, their brain replays the better option they walked away from to update their future strategy.Chimps play complex mind games, like pretending not to see hidden food so a rival will not steal it.AI models can pass tests designed to measure human social awareness, even though they lack the brain circuits that actually understand other minds.📄 Read the article