Avel Guénin--Carlut
@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social
AKA Fluffy Cyborg II
Studying the relation between material & cognitive landscapes in the XSCAPE project.
Physics of cognition; naturalizing ontology; (neo)pragmatism applied to pol sci.
Occasionally schyzoposting on main - there are many occasions.
Studying the relation between material & cognitive landscapes in the XSCAPE project.
Physics of cognition; naturalizing ontology; (neo)pragmatism applied to pol sci.
Occasionally schyzoposting on main - there are many occasions.
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🚨🚨🚨 New preprint alert 🚨🚨🚨
Guénin--Carlut, Avel. “Cognitive Agency in Socio-Cultural Evolution - A Proposal to Ground Social Modelling in the Active Inference Framework.” X7yr4_v2. Preprint, OSF Preprints, December 16, 2025. osf.io/x7yr4/.
Guénin--Carlut, Avel. “Cognitive Agency in Socio-Cultural Evolution - A Proposal to Ground Social Modelling in the Active Inference Framework.” X7yr4_v2. Preprint, OSF Preprints, December 16, 2025. osf.io/x7yr4/.
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“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
Okay, I cheated by assuming technology = access to resources !
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Okay, I cheated by assuming technology = access to resources !
For the Americans, it seems that steel and/or better medicine would have changed a lot from 1492 onwards !
January 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
For the Americans, it seems that steel and/or better medicine would have changed a lot from 1492 onwards !
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One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
"How do you get psychopaths to cooperate?"
Well... We all know the answer by now, but this Instagram guy put it nicely so
www.instagram.com/reel/DRBJsHx...
Well... We all know the answer by now, but this Instagram guy put it nicely so
www.instagram.com/reel/DRBJsHx...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM
"How do you get psychopaths to cooperate?"
Well... We all know the answer by now, but this Instagram guy put it nicely so
www.instagram.com/reel/DRBJsHx...
Well... We all know the answer by now, but this Instagram guy put it nicely so
www.instagram.com/reel/DRBJsHx...
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I’m very excited to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social for a new book, tentatively titled “The Genomic Code” 📖 😊
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
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August 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’m very excited to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social for a new book, tentatively titled “The Genomic Code” 📖 😊
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Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
I have more digestible stuff tackling what is essentially the same issue within cog sci, follow for updates :-)
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I have more digestible stuff tackling what is essentially the same issue within cog sci, follow for updates :-)
Quand on y pense, il a pourtant beaucoup fait pour la paix, comme par exemple ne pas lancer une guerre thermonucléaire gloable juste pour montrer qu'il a la plus grosse. Il faut le reconnaître !
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Quand on y pense, il a pourtant beaucoup fait pour la paix, comme par exemple ne pas lancer une guerre thermonucléaire gloable juste pour montrer qu'il a la plus grosse. Il faut le reconnaître !
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2022. “Physics of Creation - Symmetry Breaking, (En)Active Inference, and Unfolding Statespaces.” OSF Preprints. doi.org/10.31219/osf....
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January 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2022. “Physics of Creation - Symmetry Breaking, (En)Active Inference, and Unfolding Statespaces.” OSF Preprints. doi.org/10.31219/osf....
Would say that the physics (and the progressive turn away from its Platonism) made me pretty good at keeping my ontology straight !
As we've been talking both cog sci and cosmology, I think I should share my piece linking the two. It would take some restructuring, but I still stand by it
As we've been talking both cog sci and cosmology, I think I should share my piece linking the two. It would take some restructuring, but I still stand by it
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Would say that the physics (and the progressive turn away from its Platonism) made me pretty good at keeping my ontology straight !
As we've been talking both cog sci and cosmology, I think I should share my piece linking the two. It would take some restructuring, but I still stand by it
As we've been talking both cog sci and cosmology, I think I should share my piece linking the two. It would take some restructuring, but I still stand by it
That's pretty much my case too, although I branched off before working per se in physics !
January 5, 2026 at 12:14 AM
That's pretty much my case too, although I branched off before working per se in physics !
I'll gladly concede that, by and large, a scientific theory that makes consensus is true.
All I'll need for you to demonstrate is a single framework to subsume quantum physics with general relativity, while also affording a coherent (no magical action) cosmology
All I'll need for you to demonstrate is a single framework to subsume quantum physics with general relativity, while also affording a coherent (no magical action) cosmology
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I'll gladly concede that, by and large, a scientific theory that makes consensus is true.
All I'll need for you to demonstrate is a single framework to subsume quantum physics with general relativity, while also affording a coherent (no magical action) cosmology
All I'll need for you to demonstrate is a single framework to subsume quantum physics with general relativity, while also affording a coherent (no magical action) cosmology
January 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I'll gladly concede that, by and large, a scientific theory that makes consensus is true.
All I'll need for you to demonstrate is a single framework to subsume quantum physics with general relativity, while also affording a coherent (no magical action) cosmology
All I'll need for you to demonstrate is a single framework to subsume quantum physics with general relativity, while also affording a coherent (no magical action) cosmology
What critique ? I'm not aware of Smolin's work on epistemology
January 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
What critique ? I'm not aware of Smolin's work on epistemology
For having written a bit on the role/nature of information in both biology and cogsci, and followed debates within physics: yes, they get defensive. Very defensive.
January 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
For having written a bit on the role/nature of information in both biology and cogsci, and followed debates within physics: yes, they get defensive. Very defensive.
Sounds like an argument out of James C Scott !
January 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Sounds like an argument out of James C Scott !
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if personnel is policy, then the most fundamental questions about an institution is not "what are the policy directives" but rather "what will get you promoted" vs. "what will get you fired"
January 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
if personnel is policy, then the most fundamental questions about an institution is not "what are the policy directives" but rather "what will get you promoted" vs. "what will get you fired"
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this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top
January 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top
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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th Century
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th Century
“What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely patriotic motive, that the history of our fatherland might not be lost in oblivion.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th Century
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-intell...
Is it a coincidence that elites of the capitalist world started pushing aggressively against social institutions just when the USSR started visibly crumbling? I don't think so
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Is it a coincidence that elites of the capitalist world started pushing aggressively against social institutions just when the USSR started visibly crumbling? I don't think so
The discussions I've been seeing seem less about making the current situation OK, and more about remembering that a lot of the stuff that Trump is singled out for is business as usual for US state.
I agree the situation is not the same as it was in the 70s, esp regarding how overt corruption is
I agree the situation is not the same as it was in the 70s, esp regarding how overt corruption is
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The discussions I've been seeing seem less about making the current situation OK, and more about remembering that a lot of the stuff that Trump is singled out for is business as usual for US state.
I agree the situation is not the same as it was in the 70s, esp regarding how overt corruption is
I agree the situation is not the same as it was in the 70s, esp regarding how overt corruption is
Surtout parce que la CIA ne contrôlait pas l'armée US, donc elle utilisait des proxys locaux
January 3, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Surtout parce que la CIA ne contrôlait pas l'armée US, donc elle utilisait des proxys locaux