Josh Fisher
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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers
This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...
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What I should have said here is that this is a clue (bsky.app/profile/text...). Consciousness is a mystery in part because it lies in between behaviorism and individualistic psychologism. It was BUILT for and functions through communicative sociality.
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Should we try to get kids discover it for themselves or just tell them?
What does the evidence say about modeling and demonstration?
This is the number one book in Educational PD and Administration.
Hope you enjoy reading 📖
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What does the evidence say about modeling and demonstration?
This is the number one book in Educational PD and Administration.
Hope you enjoy reading 📖
a.co/d/bgKY1W9
Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching: Groshell, Zach: 9781036003685: Amazon.com: Books
Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching [Groshell, Zach] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
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November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Should we try to get kids discover it for themselves or just tell them?
What does the evidence say about modeling and demonstration?
This is the number one book in Educational PD and Administration.
Hope you enjoy reading 📖
a.co/d/bgKY1W9
What does the evidence say about modeling and demonstration?
This is the number one book in Educational PD and Administration.
Hope you enjoy reading 📖
a.co/d/bgKY1W9
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An Oratorio from geneticist Jenny Graves
This is a great article about the amazing Jenny Graves who is one of the most fascinating people I have ever met. The article links to a YouTube of the full oratorio.
We need to sing our science!
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This is a great article about the amazing Jenny Graves who is one of the most fascinating people I have ever met. The article links to a YouTube of the full oratorio.
We need to sing our science!
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...?
Of genes, chromosomes and oratorios
Jenny Graves has spent her life mapping genes and comparing genomes. Now she’s created a musical opus about evolution of life on this planet — bringing the same drive and experimentalism she brought t...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
An Oratorio from geneticist Jenny Graves
This is a great article about the amazing Jenny Graves who is one of the most fascinating people I have ever met. The article links to a YouTube of the full oratorio.
We need to sing our science!
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...?
This is a great article about the amazing Jenny Graves who is one of the most fascinating people I have ever met. The article links to a YouTube of the full oratorio.
We need to sing our science!
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...?
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Happy to have spent the day in Ohio with NOBIDA. I appreciate a dyslexia group that understands the importance of math! It was also nice to see Ohio friends (Lindsay and Sam)! OH!
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Happy to have spent the day in Ohio with NOBIDA. I appreciate a dyslexia group that understands the importance of math! It was also nice to see Ohio friends (Lindsay and Sam)! OH!
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NEW CURIOS Free preview discusses a planned education neuroscience research centre
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Curios of the week #141
Everything you need to know about education right now
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November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NEW CURIOS Free preview discusses a planned education neuroscience research centre
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Listen to a 1919 recording of "Omar Rabbi Elozor" performed by Cantor Meyer Kanewsky and his choir. The lyrics are based on the last passage of the Talmud's Tractate Berakhot (and include the line "Scholars increase the levels of peace in the world"): publicdomainreview.org/collection/o...
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Listen to a 1919 recording of "Omar Rabbi Elozor" performed by Cantor Meyer Kanewsky and his choir. The lyrics are based on the last passage of the Talmud's Tractate Berakhot (and include the line "Scholars increase the levels of peace in the world"): publicdomainreview.org/collection/o...
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Archaeology, anthropology and dogs - what more could you ask for in an article? Love it!
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
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Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
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Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Archaeology, anthropology and dogs - what more could you ask for in an article? Love it!
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
theconversation.com/dogs-10-000-...
Dogs 10,000 years ago roamed with bands of humans and came in all shapes and sizes
theconversation.com/dogs-10-000-...
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Sartre’s “nothingness”—the sense of lack, absence, and non-coincidence at the heart of consciousness—is best understood not as a metaphysical void, but as the phenomenological expression of an organism’s biological incompleteness as it works to maintain itself against entropy.
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Sartre’s “nothingness”—the sense of lack, absence, and non-coincidence at the heart of consciousness—is best understood not as a metaphysical void, but as the phenomenological expression of an organism’s biological incompleteness as it works to maintain itself against entropy.
Teach them, too, to expect honest praise from people and, from themselves, to teach against dishonest praise.
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Teach them, too, to expect honest praise from people and, from themselves, to teach against dishonest praise.
I feel like "pre-mortems" just used to be called 'know a thing or two before opening your gob'. Vorbereitung ist alles. Action should be as mindful as reception, except in different ways.
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I feel like "pre-mortems" just used to be called 'know a thing or two before opening your gob'. Vorbereitung ist alles. Action should be as mindful as reception, except in different ways.
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Turn up the dial on public space. 📻
In the first episode of @jstordaily.bsky.social’s new #podcast series, Perspectives on Public Space, Sara Ivry interviews cultural anthropologist Setha Low about why public spaces matter & who gets access to them.
Listen to the episode: https://bit.ly/43sL58a
In the first episode of @jstordaily.bsky.social’s new #podcast series, Perspectives on Public Space, Sara Ivry interviews cultural anthropologist Setha Low about why public spaces matter & who gets access to them.
Listen to the episode: https://bit.ly/43sL58a
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Turn up the dial on public space. 📻
In the first episode of @jstordaily.bsky.social’s new #podcast series, Perspectives on Public Space, Sara Ivry interviews cultural anthropologist Setha Low about why public spaces matter & who gets access to them.
Listen to the episode: https://bit.ly/43sL58a
In the first episode of @jstordaily.bsky.social’s new #podcast series, Perspectives on Public Space, Sara Ivry interviews cultural anthropologist Setha Low about why public spaces matter & who gets access to them.
Listen to the episode: https://bit.ly/43sL58a
The stages of 'display' (e.g., speedcubing):
1. Practitioners memorize 78 positional 'cases' and the rest is lookahead, perceptual and coordinative acuity, and practice.
2. The performative fluency is mistaken for raw brilliance by the crowd.
3. A hierarchy is established, full of sound and fury.
1. Practitioners memorize 78 positional 'cases' and the rest is lookahead, perceptual and coordinative acuity, and practice.
2. The performative fluency is mistaken for raw brilliance by the crowd.
3. A hierarchy is established, full of sound and fury.
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The stages of 'display' (e.g., speedcubing):
1. Practitioners memorize 78 positional 'cases' and the rest is lookahead, perceptual and coordinative acuity, and practice.
2. The performative fluency is mistaken for raw brilliance by the crowd.
3. A hierarchy is established, full of sound and fury.
1. Practitioners memorize 78 positional 'cases' and the rest is lookahead, perceptual and coordinative acuity, and practice.
2. The performative fluency is mistaken for raw brilliance by the crowd.
3. A hierarchy is established, full of sound and fury.
Saw this on YouTube and am intrigued:
"Language is the only religion that still works."
"Language is the only religion that still works."
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Saw this on YouTube and am intrigued:
"Language is the only religion that still works."
"Language is the only religion that still works."
I find showering at night to be very, very strange, therefore I am.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I find showering at night to be very, very strange, therefore I am.
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NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching
#5 Explicit teaching is demotivating
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#5 Explicit teaching is demotivating
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Five arguments against explicit teaching
#5 Explicit teaching is demotivating
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November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
NEW FREE POST Five arguments against explicit teaching
#5 Explicit teaching is demotivating
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#5 Explicit teaching is demotivating
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"They prove what I said two years ago, quoting from his own books, that [President Roosevelt] is a game butcher pure and simple, and that his interest in animals lies chiefly in the direction of blood and brutality."
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LONG ATTACKS ROOSEVELT.; Says the Effect of the Big Hunt Is to Brutalize Boys.
STAMFORD, Conn., May 26. -- Dr. William J. Long, the former minister and nature writer, some of whose writings were bitterly attacked by Theodore Roosevelt when he was President, was interviewed to-da...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"They prove what I said two years ago, quoting from his own books, that [President Roosevelt] is a game butcher pure and simple, and that his interest in animals lies chiefly in the direction of blood and brutality."
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The idea that seems to be circling around the crew now is that, rather than change course, we can keep our instructional bowsprit pointed in the same direction and change the direction of the current instead--by directing efforts to professional development and parent involvement.
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The idea that seems to be circling around the crew now is that, rather than change course, we can keep our instructional bowsprit pointed in the same direction and change the direction of the current instead--by directing efforts to professional development and parent involvement.
"If nature had left the mind of the hearer evenly balanced between believing and disbelieving what is said, we wouldn't take anyone's word until we had positive evidence that he was speaking the truth . . .
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The Force for Trust — Text Savvy
It's not a bad thing to accept information from others without personally vetting it or critiquing it; in fact, we really couldn't live without doing so.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"If nature had left the mind of the hearer evenly balanced between believing and disbelieving what is said, we wouldn't take anyone's word until we had positive evidence that he was speaking the truth . . .
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Where are you going: to pout because of the mean lady
Where have you been: ko'd by Joyce Carol Oates
Where have you been: ko'd by Joyce Carol Oates
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Where are you going: to pout because of the mean lady
Where have you been: ko'd by Joyce Carol Oates
Where have you been: ko'd by Joyce Carol Oates
I would like to learn these terms so that I can inflict this confusion on others.
"The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. The bowsprit is typically held down by a bobstay that counteracts the forces from the forestays."
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"The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. The bowsprit is typically held down by a bobstay that counteracts the forces from the forestays."
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Bowsprit - Wikipedia
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November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I would like to learn these terms so that I can inflict this confusion on others.
"The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. The bowsprit is typically held down by a bobstay that counteracts the forces from the forestays."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowsprit
"The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. The bowsprit is typically held down by a bobstay that counteracts the forces from the forestays."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowsprit
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Value Saturation is why things dont matter because we feel them, we feel them because they matter.
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
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Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
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Value saturation: Architecture of subjective necessity
Consciousness requires explanation for how biological architectures reliably generate it. This paper introduces Value Saturation, advancing an identit…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Value Saturation is why things dont matter because we feel them, we feel them because they matter.
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Where did 'wherefore' go as a substitute for 'which is why' (e.g., I was in the habit of writing it down as he said it, wherefore my record of it reads like a diary.)?
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Where did 'wherefore' go as a substitute for 'which is why' (e.g., I was in the habit of writing it down as he said it, wherefore my record of it reads like a diary.)?