Remis Ramos
@remisramos.bsky.social
🦉 Ph.D. in Philosophy candidate (UAH) 🤡 Manic Goblin Nightmare Husband ⚙️ Conceptual Sommelier 🌎 https://sites.google.com/view/remisramos/inicio
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Remis Ramos
@remisramos.bsky.social
· Sep 6
So it’s official: I’ve joined CARVAKAS as their bass player. It’s a Progressive Death Metal band from Chile 🇨🇱 with 4 albums, and their lyrics are about Ancient Philosophy and Materialism. You can find us on Spotify, Bandcamp (support us if you can!) and most music platforms. This is from rehearsal.
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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vimeo.com/1116289621
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I really dislike the design philosophy behind most slide templates nowadays. Too much empty space and small text. I want my slides to be readable from the back of the room, even with a not-so-big projection. You should be able to read everything in the slide on your phone with your arm extended.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I really dislike the design philosophy behind most slide templates nowadays. Too much empty space and small text. I want my slides to be readable from the back of the room, even with a not-so-big projection. You should be able to read everything in the slide on your phone with your arm extended.
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Two weeks until the Philosophy of Science Association’s next office hours! @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Mazviita Chirimuuta on “New approaches to realism.”
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PSA Office Hour - Philosophy of Science Association
The PSA Office Hour aims to facilitate interactions between our graduate student membership and prominent philosophers of science, and in a more controlled, accessible, and carbon-conscious setting…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Two weeks until the Philosophy of Science Association’s next office hours! @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Mazviita Chirimuuta on “New approaches to realism.”
Sign up and more information:
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The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
Call for Papers: Book Symposium on "Deflating Mental Representation" by Frances Egan
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The online journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is doing a symposium on my book, Deflating Mental Representation, based on my Jean Nicod lectures. See the Call for Papers here:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
and a précis of the book here:
philpapers.org/rec/EGAPOD
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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looks like they stopped maintaining the url, but this did exist for a bit
telescoper.blog/2024/12/10/t...
telescoper.blog/2024/12/10/t...
The Journal of Universal Rejection
As (both) my regular readers know I have a strong interest in innovative publication methods, I thought I would share a very intriguing one I have just found out about: I think this approach might …
telescoper.blog
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
looks like they stopped maintaining the url, but this did exist for a bit
telescoper.blog/2024/12/10/t...
telescoper.blog/2024/12/10/t...
Last saturday I had a random encounter and casual conversation with someone I hadn't talked to since 2008. The act of trying to summarize all that matters about half a lifetime is sort of heroic. It all comes down to two things: decency and kindness. Forgiveness comes naturally after those two.
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Last saturday I had a random encounter and casual conversation with someone I hadn't talked to since 2008. The act of trying to summarize all that matters about half a lifetime is sort of heroic. It all comes down to two things: decency and kindness. Forgiveness comes naturally after those two.
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What makes a neurolinguistics experiment worth pursuing? Nevia Dolcini & colleagues propose two axes of pursuitworthiness standing in an asymmetric relationship: methodological (thresholds for epistemic adequacy) & pragmatic (contextual priorities) 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What makes a neurolinguistics experiment worth pursuing? Nevia Dolcini & colleagues propose two axes of pursuitworthiness standing in an asymmetric relationship: methodological (thresholds for epistemic adequacy) & pragmatic (contextual priorities) 👇📃 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #HPS
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And here we are. Thanks to everyone who cumulatively worked to make me change the title from Erotetic Injustice to Inquisitive Injustice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
And here we are. Thanks to everyone who cumulatively worked to make me change the title from Erotetic Injustice to Inquisitive Injustice.
I was thinking of a shitpost stating that all my teenage heroes had thick moustaches, with pictures of Nietzsche, Neil Peart, Super Mario, and Ron Jeremy, but while looking for pictures of them, I found out about some very disturbing news and decided not to do it. So here's it without the punchline.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I was thinking of a shitpost stating that all my teenage heroes had thick moustaches, with pictures of Nietzsche, Neil Peart, Super Mario, and Ron Jeremy, but while looking for pictures of them, I found out about some very disturbing news and decided not to do it. So here's it without the punchline.
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very nice talk by Joe McCaffrey on functional localization— it’s an easy listen with tons of great information about the debate.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmD...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmD...
Lunchtime Talk - Joe McCaffrey 11/7/25
YouTube video by Center for Philosophy of Science
m.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
very nice talk by Joe McCaffrey on functional localization— it’s an easy listen with tons of great information about the debate.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmD...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmD...
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📖 NEW PUBLICATION: The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation? By @coreymaley.net & Oron Shagrir
Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠
Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠
Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📖 NEW PUBLICATION: The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation? By @coreymaley.net & Oron Shagrir
Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠
Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
Out now in: Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind 🧠
Find it here: www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
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It was my first mentor, Guido Vallejos, who told me that consciousness was only “a talking point for drunkards” and lent me a copy of this book, my fist Fodor I ever read
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It was my first mentor, Guido Vallejos, who told me that consciousness was only “a talking point for drunkards” and lent me a copy of this book, my fist Fodor I ever read
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"There’s no reason to think systems like ChatGPT or Gemini are conscious," says Susan Schneider, but there are other "serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today" that raise "pressing ethical issues we must face now."
Which AI’s Might be Conscious, and Why it Matters (guest post) - Daily Nous
Large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious, but there are other "serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today" Furthermore, "AI development will not wait for philosophers and cog...
dailynous.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"There’s no reason to think systems like ChatGPT or Gemini are conscious," says Susan Schneider, but there are other "serious contenders for AI consciousness that exist today" that raise "pressing ethical issues we must face now."
The Del Toro Frankenstein movie is the most awe and wonder I’ve felt watching a movie in almost a decade
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Del Toro Frankenstein movie is the most awe and wonder I’ve felt watching a movie in almost a decade
Maybe my most boomer-coded trait right now is having a visceral hatred for AI-slop and Tech Bros, after being a tech-obsessed kid and early adopter of all the major milestones in the Internet history (blogs, podcasts, being a YouTuber, you name it)
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Maybe my most boomer-coded trait right now is having a visceral hatred for AI-slop and Tech Bros, after being a tech-obsessed kid and early adopter of all the major milestones in the Internet history (blogs, podcasts, being a YouTuber, you name it)
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Maybe I'm in the minority of neuroscientists, but I'm deflationary about terms like intelligence. If AI passes tests that were designed to measure these things, then we can say they have them (like we do for humans). And this is mostly what the original article says (the headline is inaccurate)
As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Maybe I'm in the minority of neuroscientists, but I'm deflationary about terms like intelligence. If AI passes tests that were designed to measure these things, then we can say they have them (like we do for humans). And this is mostly what the original article says (the headline is inaccurate)
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the “innateness is not a dirty word” symposium felt like an empiricist psyop
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
the “innateness is not a dirty word” symposium felt like an empiricist psyop
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As a philosopher I come from a rich tradition of being annoying af
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
As a philosopher I come from a rich tradition of being annoying af
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3) how should we think about old psychology today? one lesson from the replication crisis of 10 years ago is that effects are probably much smaller than the older work made it seem.
aside from in-your-face phenomena like visual illusions, the effects are probably not huge (e.g., semantic priming)
aside from in-your-face phenomena like visual illusions, the effects are probably not huge (e.g., semantic priming)
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
3) how should we think about old psychology today? one lesson from the replication crisis of 10 years ago is that effects are probably much smaller than the older work made it seem.
aside from in-your-face phenomena like visual illusions, the effects are probably not huge (e.g., semantic priming)
aside from in-your-face phenomena like visual illusions, the effects are probably not huge (e.g., semantic priming)
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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This is the paper where I complain a bunch about how people overinterpret machine learning results as meaning something for the empiricism/nativism debate in cognitive science. It's probably too long, but it's maybe my favorite thing I've written so far. Check it out
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is the paper where I complain a bunch about how people overinterpret machine learning results as meaning something for the empiricism/nativism debate in cognitive science. It's probably too long, but it's maybe my favorite thing I've written so far. Check it out
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Is this something YOU ever ask yourself?
"Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?"
This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now!
philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
"Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?"
This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now!
philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
Brett Karlan, AI empiricism: the only game in town? - PhilPapers
I offer an epistemic argument against the dominance of empiricism and empiricist-inspired methods in contemporary machine learning (ML) research. I first establish, as many ML researchers and philosop...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Is this something YOU ever ask yourself?
"Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?"
This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now!
philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4
"Man, Brett Karlan (aka Old Jerry Fodor) claims to love Fodor, but has never published anything defending anything remotely Fodorian. What's up with that?"
This was a puzzle that long perplexed the scholars... until now!
philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4