Yunus Şahin
@herrbokologist.bsky.social
I drink and I know things.
IU Ling '20 / MA at Boun CogSci '24 / MA at Tartu Semiotics '27
Into PhilCogs/Nsc/Bio
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IU Ling '20 / MA at Boun CogSci '24 / MA at Tartu Semiotics '27
Into PhilCogs/Nsc/Bio
www.yunus-sahin.com
I've been reading this. I wasn't expecting Fodor to be a pro evo-devo / EES person as he is renowned for his naive nativism.
January 24, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I've been reading this. I wasn't expecting Fodor to be a pro evo-devo / EES person as he is renowned for his naive nativism.
For my second master's here at Tartu Semiotics, probably I'll be working on either paramecium or c. elegans. Sounds interesting.
January 24, 2026 at 2:45 PM
For my second master's here at Tartu Semiotics, probably I'll be working on either paramecium or c. elegans. Sounds interesting.
I do want to use BluSky. But I can't. For some reason, even though the content I see here is pretty interesting, the interface, the platform itself, the layout etc. are boring, too boring.
January 24, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I do want to use BluSky. But I can't. For some reason, even though the content I see here is pretty interesting, the interface, the platform itself, the layout etc. are boring, too boring.
You are all invited!
On January 27, we commemorate James J. Gibson.
In this talk, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social revisits this familiar accusation and asks a deeper question: is ecological psychology really a behaviorist revival, or does it offer a fundamentally different and novel way of understanding cognition?
In this talk, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social revisits this familiar accusation and asks a deeper question: is ecological psychology really a behaviorist revival, or does it offer a fundamentally different and novel way of understanding cognition?
January 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM
You are all invited!
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Ecological Psychology and the Behaviorist Boogeyman - Miguel Segundo-Ortin (PhD) | In Memoriam: James J. Gibson #2 - CogIST
James J. Gibson was born on January 27, 1904 and made groundbreaking contributions to psychology during his 75-year life. Primarily working in perception and ecological psychology, Gibson revolutioniz...
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January 24, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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What were, in your opinion, the most interesting and prominent papers published in the fields of cognitive science in 2025?
January 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
What were, in your opinion, the most interesting and prominent papers published in the fields of cognitive science in 2025?
We have translated "No one knows what attention is" paper. It's such a good paper that changes how one looks at cognitive science in general. A must-read!
Bilişsel bilimde dikkat kavramı temelden yanlış mı anlaşıldı? | Yaren Saygılı çevirdi, Yunus Şahin düzenledi. Keyifli okumalar...
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Dikkatin Ne Olduğunu Kimse Bilmiyor - Bernhard Hommel · Craig S. Chapman · Paul Cisek · Heather F. Neyedli · Joo-Hyun Song · Timothy N. Welsh - CogIST
Özgün Adı: Hommel, B., Chapman, C. S., Cisek, P., Neyedli, H. F., Song, J. H., & Welsh, T. N. (2019). No one knows what attention is. Attention, perception & psychophysics, 81(7), 2288–2303. https://d...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
We have translated "No one knows what attention is" paper. It's such a good paper that changes how one looks at cognitive science in general. A must-read!
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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Social Psychology evidence
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Social Psychology evidence
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Neisser also hung out with the Gibson’s at Cornell, got really intrigued on the ecological approach, and freaked out the information processing people by writing Cognition & Reality. Good interview with him on all this here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Neisser also hung out with the Gibson’s at Cornell, got really intrigued on the ecological approach, and freaked out the information processing people by writing Cognition & Reality. Good interview with him on all this here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
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Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
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December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
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We’re excited to host @mljanderson.bsky.social in our next CogIST Cognitive Webinar. For more information and registration the link is the down below in the replies! 👇
December 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We’re excited to host @mljanderson.bsky.social in our next CogIST Cognitive Webinar. For more information and registration the link is the down below in the replies! 👇
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Through the Cognitive Webinar series, CogIST continues to connect researchers, students, and scholars from around the world. For more information and registration:
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Replacing Functional Localization with Psycho-Neural-Behavioral Constraint – Michael Anderson (PhD) – Cognitive Webinar #20 - CogIST
We are pleased to announce the next Cognitive Webinar, featuring Michael Anderson (PhD) from Western University, whose work sits at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Through the Cognitive Webinar series, CogIST continues to connect researchers, students, and scholars from around the world. For more information and registration:
cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
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I’m happy to share that my book chapter, titled “Artificial General Intelligence: What It Is, What It Is Not, What It Could Be, Is It Possible?”, has just been published in the new volume Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence by Doruk Publishing. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m happy to share that my book chapter, titled “Artificial General Intelligence: What It Is, What It Is Not, What It Could Be, Is It Possible?”, has just been published in the new volume Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence by Doruk Publishing. 1/2
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Join us at our first Cognitive Webinar of the year! Tomorrow we will listen to Sophie Slaats (PhD) from the Université de Genève and we'll talk about language and brain!
Registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
Registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Join us at our first Cognitive Webinar of the year! Tomorrow we will listen to Sophie Slaats (PhD) from the Université de Genève and we'll talk about language and brain!
Registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
Registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
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Beynimizde dil nasıl çalışıyor? Dilin nörobilimini Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Melis Çetinçelik hocamızdan dinliyoruz. Kayıtlar sürüyor, seni de bekliyoruz!
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Nasıl dil konuşuyoruz? Nasıl dil öğreniyoruz? Beynimizde neler oluyor? Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Dr. Melis Çetinçelik'ten dinliyoruz! Kayıt linki yorumlarda 👇
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Beynimizde dil nasıl çalışıyor? Dilin nörobilimini Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Melis Çetinçelik hocamızdan dinliyoruz. Kayıtlar sürüyor, seni de bekliyoruz!
Kayıt ve bilgi için: cog-ist.com/duyuru/dilin...
Kayıt ve bilgi için: cog-ist.com/duyuru/dilin...
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Join us on November 17 for an insightful talk by Dr. Jedediah Allen on how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory continues to shape our understanding of the human mind.
More info and registration link is below 👇
More info and registration link is below 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Join us on November 17 for an insightful talk by Dr. Jedediah Allen on how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory continues to shape our understanding of the human mind.
More info and registration link is below 👇
More info and registration link is below 👇
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"Herbart’ın yaklaşımı, daha sonra psikofizik, bilişsel modelleme ve zihne işlemlemesel yaklaşımların gelişimini önceleyen bir çizgi oluşturdu."
Gönderinin tamamını okumayı unutma!
Gönderinin tamamını okumayı unutma!
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"Herbart’ın yaklaşımı, daha sonra psikofizik, bilişsel modelleme ve zihne işlemlemesel yaklaşımların gelişimini önceleyen bir çizgi oluşturdu."
Gönderinin tamamını okumayı unutma!
Gönderinin tamamını okumayı unutma!
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"Herbart’s vision of psychology as a formal science, grounded in mathematical relations, anticipated later developments in psychophysics, cognitive modeling, and computational approaches to the mind."
Swipe for English and don't forget to read the full post!
Swipe for English and don't forget to read the full post!
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"Herbart’s vision of psychology as a formal science, grounded in mathematical relations, anticipated later developments in psychophysics, cognitive modeling, and computational approaches to the mind."
Swipe for English and don't forget to read the full post!
Swipe for English and don't forget to read the full post!
I’ve been working on an essay but as I tried to avoid being misunderstood, it kept expanding until it became what is now a full paper draft. It starts off with a simple but unsettling question: what makes psychotherapy psychotherapy? 1/n
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Essay | What's Wrong With Psychotherapy and How to Replace It?: Radically Embodied Therapy (RET)
Essay | Yunus Şahin - Cognitive Science & Philosophy | Psychotherapy lacks clear, observable criteria for what makes it therapeutic, a problem revealed by the Nonchalant Therapist Thought Experiment. ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I’ve been working on an essay but as I tried to avoid being misunderstood, it kept expanding until it became what is now a full paper draft. It starts off with a simple but unsettling question: what makes psychotherapy psychotherapy? 1/n
www.yunus-sahin.com/radically-em...
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In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host @sophieslaats.bsky.social , a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève.
Registration link is below 👇
#cogist #cognitivewebinar
Registration link is below 👇
#cogist #cognitivewebinar
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host @sophieslaats.bsky.social , a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève.
Registration link is below 👇
#cogist #cognitivewebinar
Registration link is below 👇
#cogist #cognitivewebinar
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In her talk we will explore recent advances in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, focusing on how the brain processes linguistic structure and statistical regularities.
For more info and regsitration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
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From Sentences to Words, and Back Again: Statistical and Structural Relations in the Neural Signal – Sophie Slaats (PhD) – Cognitive Webinar #19 - CogIST
In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host Sophie Slaats, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève. In her talk, titled “From Sentences to Words, and Back Again: ...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In her talk we will explore recent advances in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, focusing on how the brain processes linguistic structure and statistical regularities.
For more info and regsitration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
For more info and regsitration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
We are delighted to open our new series, Analysis by Synthesis, with a talk by Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu), one of the leading figures in contemporary biosemiotics.
You can find the registration link below! 👇
You can find the registration link below! 👇
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We are delighted to open our new series, Analysis by Synthesis, with a talk by Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu), one of the leading figures in contemporary biosemiotics.
You can find the registration link below! 👇
You can find the registration link below! 👇