Bennett and Hacker are back critiquing neural representations. It should be an interesting historical look on representational-thinking. My issue with the "mereolgical fallacy" is that saying our brains represent and not just us is no more nonsensical than our cells being alive and not just us
The Representational Fallacy in Neuroscience and Psychology
This book traces the history and coherence of the use of the word ‘representations’ from its origins, particularly in the description of artefacts, to its use in the description of so-called mental an...
books.google.com
September 23, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Bennett and Hacker are back critiquing neural representations. It should be an interesting historical look on representational-thinking. My issue with the "mereolgical fallacy" is that saying our brains represent and not just us is no more nonsensical than our cells being alive and not just us
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I wrote a book! It reflects my personal journey to understand: What will it take to develop new treatments for brain and mental disorders? Starting with "understanding" the brain - what do we most need to know? And what's our collective Grand Plan to know it?
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Elusive Cures
A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses
press.princeton.edu
September 6, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I wrote a book! It reflects my personal journey to understand: What will it take to develop new treatments for brain and mental disorders? Starting with "understanding" the brain - what do we most need to know? And what's our collective Grand Plan to know it?
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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youtu.be/FRheaI4FRxI?...
Here’s a sneak peak at my upcoming discussion on race ‘science’ with @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social Cathryn Townsend & @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social - great chat, can’t wait to share it!
Get early access to episodes via patreon.com/nicemangos & support the show :)
Here’s a sneak peak at my upcoming discussion on race ‘science’ with @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social Cathryn Townsend & @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social - great chat, can’t wait to share it!
Get early access to episodes via patreon.com/nicemangos & support the show :)
Coming Soon: 3-part series on race ‘science’
YouTube video by Polite Conversations Podcast
youtu.be
August 23, 2024 at 12:24 AM
youtu.be/FRheaI4FRxI?...
Here’s a sneak peak at my upcoming discussion on race ‘science’ with @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social Cathryn Townsend & @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social - great chat, can’t wait to share it!
Get early access to episodes via patreon.com/nicemangos & support the show :)
Here’s a sneak peak at my upcoming discussion on race ‘science’ with @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social Cathryn Townsend & @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social - great chat, can’t wait to share it!
Get early access to episodes via patreon.com/nicemangos & support the show :)
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The new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science has just launched with its first 50 articles. Really impressed at the great crew they got to write these (and also me). More to come.
oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...
oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science · Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science
oecs.mit.edu
July 24, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science has just launched with its first 50 articles. Really impressed at the great crew they got to write these (and also me). More to come.
oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...
oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...
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I just published an *Open Access* paper in the European Journal of Neuroscience 🥳💜
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I propose the notion of "motif" for the philosophical toolkit of the sciences of the mind. Then I put the notion to work to analyse radical embodied neuroscience. Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I propose the notion of "motif" for the philosophical toolkit of the sciences of the mind. Then I put the notion to work to analyse radical embodied neuroscience. Check it out!
The motifs of radical embodied neuroscience
The notion of motif is proposed to enrich the philosophical toolkit of cognitive neuroscience. Motifs are highly unconstrained, open-ended concepts that support equally open-ended families of explana....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 31, 2024 at 9:47 AM
I just published an *Open Access* paper in the European Journal of Neuroscience 🥳💜
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I propose the notion of "motif" for the philosophical toolkit of the sciences of the mind. Then I put the notion to work to analyse radical embodied neuroscience. Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I propose the notion of "motif" for the philosophical toolkit of the sciences of the mind. Then I put the notion to work to analyse radical embodied neuroscience. Check it out!
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Next Monday, we welcome Qiuran Wang (RUB/University of Padova) in the ROTO Lecture Series. She will talk about empirical evidence of motor cognition in pea plants. 🌱
To join the talk, just register via the following link: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
To join the talk, just register via the following link: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
April 30, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Next Monday, we welcome Qiuran Wang (RUB/University of Padova) in the ROTO Lecture Series. She will talk about empirical evidence of motor cognition in pea plants. 🌱
To join the talk, just register via the following link: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
To join the talk, just register via the following link: rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
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I kicked off a series of posts on the "end of GWAS" . It'll be 5 posts, an intro and posts on GWAS of Height, depression, education and schizophrenia, each ample size > 500.000 individuals. I wrote these between jobs to think about whats next for my field & me nivard.substack.com/p/gwas-endga...
GWAS: endgame Vol. 1
What will the first of the last GWAS look like, whats after GWAS?
nivard.substack.com
April 4, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I kicked off a series of posts on the "end of GWAS" . It'll be 5 posts, an intro and posts on GWAS of Height, depression, education and schizophrenia, each ample size > 500.000 individuals. I wrote these between jobs to think about whats next for my field & me nivard.substack.com/p/gwas-endga...
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“We need to push for open sourcing. If a lot of the data sets are not open source, we don’t even know what problems exist,” says @abeba.bsky.social , a cognitive scientist at the Mozilla Foundation in Dublin.
#AIEthics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AIEthics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed?
Researchers are tracing sources of racial and gender bias in images generated by artificial intelligence, and making efforts to fix them. Researchers are tracing sources of racial and gender bias in i...
www.nature.com
March 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM
“We need to push for open sourcing. If a lot of the data sets are not open source, we don’t even know what problems exist,” says @abeba.bsky.social , a cognitive scientist at the Mozilla Foundation in Dublin.
#AIEthics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AIEthics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My article "What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?" is now finally available (open access!):
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
March 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
My article "What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?" is now finally available (open access!):
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
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Very sorry to hear that Frans de Waal, primatologist and champion for animal empathy, has passed away aged 75.
He was a thoughtful scientist and writer and an engaging speaker - the photo is from a talk I attended in London for his then-new book back in 2017. He will be missed 🧪🐒
He was a thoughtful scientist and writer and an engaging speaker - the photo is from a talk I attended in London for his then-new book back in 2017. He will be missed 🧪🐒
March 16, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Very sorry to hear that Frans de Waal, primatologist and champion for animal empathy, has passed away aged 75.
He was a thoughtful scientist and writer and an engaging speaker - the photo is from a talk I attended in London for his then-new book back in 2017. He will be missed 🧪🐒
He was a thoughtful scientist and writer and an engaging speaker - the photo is from a talk I attended in London for his then-new book back in 2017. He will be missed 🧪🐒
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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
March 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Am I naive to think LLMs like ChatGPT should not be used by the general public? I am not saying they should not exist. Aside from issues like plagiarism, they use a lot of energy in a way that harms the environment. They are used by a lot of people for trivial tasks and the datasets are too large.
February 29, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Am I naive to think LLMs like ChatGPT should not be used by the general public? I am not saying they should not exist. Aside from issues like plagiarism, they use a lot of energy in a way that harms the environment. They are used by a lot of people for trivial tasks and the datasets are too large.
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What does metaphysics have to do with evolutionary theory? Why does the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis require a process ontological framework? Read my latest article "The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution" #philsci #philbio #Biology #Philosophy karger.com/hde/article/...
The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology
Abstract. This article discusses the metaphysics of development and evolution. Which most fundamental assumptions about the structure of reality underlie our thinking about development and evolution? ...
karger.com
February 10, 2024 at 10:41 AM
What does metaphysics have to do with evolutionary theory? Why does the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis require a process ontological framework? Read my latest article "The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution" #philsci #philbio #Biology #Philosophy karger.com/hde/article/...
@gualtiero.bsky.social Is there any work you know how I can get an idea of kind of seperating claims about humans performing computations, and the brain performing computations? In this case accepting both the brain and humans as computers, not just one or the other.
February 8, 2024 at 6:46 AM
@gualtiero.bsky.social Is there any work you know how I can get an idea of kind of seperating claims about humans performing computations, and the brain performing computations? In this case accepting both the brain and humans as computers, not just one or the other.
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Latest papers: Markus Ilkka Eronen presents a new causal perspective to psychological measurement and argues that psychological measurement is fundamentally different from measurement in the physical sciences in this open access article buff.ly/3HrrqtS
January 21, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Latest papers: Markus Ilkka Eronen presents a new causal perspective to psychological measurement and argues that psychological measurement is fundamentally different from measurement in the physical sciences in this open access article buff.ly/3HrrqtS
all acid, no bath
all bolt, no thrower
all panic, no disco
January 20, 2024 at 7:07 AM
all acid, no bath
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The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms - new book in the Resources for Ecological Psychology series
The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms
This edited collection provides a comprehensive and empirically informed discussion on affordances and their role in studying goal-directed behavior, covering philosophical, experimental psychological...
www.routledge.com
December 30, 2023 at 9:22 AM
The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms - new book in the Resources for Ecological Psychology series
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There's a copy on PhilPapers for those who want to read it philpapers.org/rec/WILRAI-13
Danielle Williams & Zoe Drayson, Realism and instrumentalism in Bayesian cognitive science - PhilPap...
There are two distinct approaches to Bayesian modelling in cognitive science. Black-box approaches use Bayesian theory to model the relationship between the inputs and outputs of a cognitive system wi...
philpapers.org
December 22, 2023 at 10:25 PM
There's a copy on PhilPapers for those who want to read it philpapers.org/rec/WILRAI-13
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Needing: an active inference process for physiological motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.24.513547v1
Needing: an active inference process for physiological motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.24.513547v1
Need states are internal states that arise from deprivation of crucial biological stimuli. They dire
www.biorxiv.org
December 14, 2023 at 5:17 AM
Needing: an active inference process for physiological motivation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.24.513547v1
Always preferred the classic Cryptopsy, but the first solo in this still rules.
December 14, 2023 at 1:34 AM
Always preferred the classic Cryptopsy, but the first solo in this still rules.
@carlsachs.bsky.social What are your feelings about a predictive processing view of ecological psycholology? I have seen some papers that make me believe the two can be reconciled.
December 13, 2023 at 7:59 AM
@carlsachs.bsky.social What are your feelings about a predictive processing view of ecological psycholology? I have seen some papers that make me believe the two can be reconciled.