Metaphorical
@0337.bsky.social
Reference frame tourist and causal pattern compressor at intersection of AI, neuroscience, decentralization. On the path.
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systems interact with their environments via their boundaries,
and cannot ``reach outside their boundaries'' to more directly measure or manipulate their environments.
and cannot ``reach outside their boundaries'' to more directly measure or manipulate their environments.
February 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
systems interact with their environments via their boundaries,
and cannot ``reach outside their boundaries'' to more directly measure or manipulate their environments.
and cannot ``reach outside their boundaries'' to more directly measure or manipulate their environments.
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𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Title of section 1 summarizes it:
"The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience"
The brain as a complex network.
Looks like a fantastic book.
#neuroskyence
Title of section 1 summarizes it:
"The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience"
The brain as a complex network.
Looks like a fantastic book.
#neuroskyence
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Title of section 1 summarizes it:
"The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience"
The brain as a complex network.
Looks like a fantastic book.
#neuroskyence
Title of section 1 summarizes it:
"The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience"
The brain as a complex network.
Looks like a fantastic book.
#neuroskyence
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Yes! It was Ted Chiang in the New Yorker essay.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
www.newyorker.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Yes! It was Ted Chiang in the New Yorker essay.
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Is evolution predictable? Would the biosphere look the same if we re-played the tape of evolution, as conjectured by SJ Gould? Here's an excellent paper on this challenging problem by Michael Lässig, Ville Mustonen and Aleksandra M. Walczak www.phys.ens.psl.eu/~awalczak/PU...
February 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Is evolution predictable? Would the biosphere look the same if we re-played the tape of evolution, as conjectured by SJ Gould? Here's an excellent paper on this challenging problem by Michael Lässig, Ville Mustonen and Aleksandra M. Walczak www.phys.ens.psl.eu/~awalczak/PU...
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Important thought from Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
"No system can determine whether it is entangled with its environment." [citation continued in the thread]
"No system can determine whether it is entangled with its environment." [citation continued in the thread]
February 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Important thought from Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social
"No system can determine whether it is entangled with its environment." [citation continued in the thread]
"No system can determine whether it is entangled with its environment." [citation continued in the thread]
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interesting interview by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social. "memory is a message to our present Self(let) from our past one. We need to constantly re-interpret. We are engaged in story telling and niche construction at all times."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7S...
Breakthrough Research in "Platonic Space" | Dr. Michael Levin
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
interesting interview by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social. "memory is a message to our present Self(let) from our past one. We need to constantly re-interpret. We are engaged in story telling and niche construction at all times."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7S...
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Federal restrictions & funding freezes threaten vital research and halts scientific progress that benefits all Americans.
Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce.
👇 #NeuroSky
Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce.
👇 #NeuroSky
February 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Federal restrictions & funding freezes threaten vital research and halts scientific progress that benefits all Americans.
Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce.
👇 #NeuroSky
Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce.
👇 #NeuroSky
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A cancer breakthrough like never before—scientists find a ‘switch’ to reverse cancer cells. Instead of destroying them, researchers in South Korea reverted cancer cells back to normal. Could this be the future of treatment? “A new approach to cancer therapy,” says Dr. Troso-Sandoval.
February 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A cancer breakthrough like never before—scientists find a ‘switch’ to reverse cancer cells. Instead of destroying them, researchers in South Korea reverted cancer cells back to normal. Could this be the future of treatment? “A new approach to cancer therapy,” says Dr. Troso-Sandoval.
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One of Superman's powers that isn't gone into much is how he gets a cape under his shirt without it looking bulky.
January 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
One of Superman's powers that isn't gone into much is how he gets a cape under his shirt without it looking bulky.
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🚀 Causality refresher! 🚀
Check out this Shiny app that uses DAGs to show how including (or controlling for) a variable (z) can help or hurt your causal inference for how x -> y. Be sure to block your back door! 🎯
Check out this Shiny app that uses DAGs to show how including (or controlling for) a variable (z) can help or hurt your causal inference for how x -> y. Be sure to block your back door! 🎯
January 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚀 Causality refresher! 🚀
Check out this Shiny app that uses DAGs to show how including (or controlling for) a variable (z) can help or hurt your causal inference for how x -> y. Be sure to block your back door! 🎯
Check out this Shiny app that uses DAGs to show how including (or controlling for) a variable (z) can help or hurt your causal inference for how x -> y. Be sure to block your back door! 🎯
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The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study.
The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.
The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.
January 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study.
The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.
The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.
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We often pathologize grief, anger, and melancholy, viewing them as diseases to be cured. But these emotions are essential parts of the human experience. When we chase after happiness as an endless state, we deny ourselves the richness of life's complexities.
(Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos).
(Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos).
November 12, 2024 at 12:39 AM
We often pathologize grief, anger, and melancholy, viewing them as diseases to be cured. But these emotions are essential parts of the human experience. When we chase after happiness as an endless state, we deny ourselves the richness of life's complexities.
(Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos).
(Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos).
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Evidence that oscillatory neural dynamics is functional, not epiphenomenal. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The functional role of oscillatory dynamics in neocortical circuits: A computational perspective | PNAS
The dynamics of neuronal systems are characterized by hallmark features such as oscillations
and synchrony. However, it has remained unclear whethe...
www.pnas.org
January 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Evidence that oscillatory neural dynamics is functional, not epiphenomenal. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Here's a fun set of images: despite all the resonances between Confucian and Aristotelian thought, and the fact that Confucius was born about 150 years earlier, trade routes that covered that enormous distance (geographic, but also cultural, linguistic) is thought to have started 100s of years later
January 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Here's a fun set of images: despite all the resonances between Confucian and Aristotelian thought, and the fact that Confucius was born about 150 years earlier, trade routes that covered that enormous distance (geographic, but also cultural, linguistic) is thought to have started 100s of years later
Lynch’s method depended on fragmentation and abstraction.
Fragmentation makes it hard to know the context as defined by a reference frame.
Abstraction makes it hard to trust our normal causal models.
If consciousness is a process of…
Fragmentation makes it hard to know the context as defined by a reference frame.
Abstraction makes it hard to trust our normal causal models.
If consciousness is a process of…
January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Lynch’s method depended on fragmentation and abstraction.
Fragmentation makes it hard to know the context as defined by a reference frame.
Abstraction makes it hard to trust our normal causal models.
If consciousness is a process of…
Fragmentation makes it hard to know the context as defined by a reference frame.
Abstraction makes it hard to trust our normal causal models.
If consciousness is a process of…
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January 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
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Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/e... - really looking forward to visiting University of Leeds on Friday to give this talk! If you're in the area, come along! 😊
January 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/e... - really looking forward to visiting University of Leeds on Friday to give this talk! If you're in the area, come along! 😊
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I thank taxpayers for supporting my lab's work. My group has helped map how brains transform "seeing" into "remembering". We've been working to transform what we've learned into a new treatment for individuals with memory impairment (by stimulating the vagus nerve).
www.nicolecrust.com/memory
www.nicolecrust.com/memory
January 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I thank taxpayers for supporting my lab's work. My group has helped map how brains transform "seeing" into "remembering". We've been working to transform what we've learned into a new treatment for individuals with memory impairment (by stimulating the vagus nerve).
www.nicolecrust.com/memory
www.nicolecrust.com/memory
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We are the filter to the patterns we perceive, we see visible light but not UV, for example, but might we also be the source?
January 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We are the filter to the patterns we perceive, we see visible light but not UV, for example, but might we also be the source?
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I don't think about the Roman Empire all that often but I do lament how here in the 21st century, we are completely incapable of flooding a stadium and staging a mock naval battle, what are we even fucking doing
January 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I don't think about the Roman Empire all that often but I do lament how here in the 21st century, we are completely incapable of flooding a stadium and staging a mock naval battle, what are we even fucking doing
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What is the relationship between causal emergence and learning? New preprint osf.io/preprints/os... where @pigozzife.bsky.social and I study this question in a minimal in silico system. #basalcognition #diverseintelligence More detailed explanation: thoughtforms.life/learning-to-.... 🧪
OSF
osf.io
January 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What is the relationship between causal emergence and learning? New preprint osf.io/preprints/os... where @pigozzife.bsky.social and I study this question in a minimal in silico system. #basalcognition #diverseintelligence More detailed explanation: thoughtforms.life/learning-to-.... 🧪
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Wordpress blog thoughtforms.life. Unlike drmichaellevin.org, here I post speculative ideas, personal thoughts on what our research means, nature photography, essays, interviews, etc. Register to be notified of books' progress, events, and news, access downloadable content, etc.
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin
Thoughts on the science and philosophy of embodied minds, and the lives that can be.
thoughtforms.life
November 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Wordpress blog thoughtforms.life. Unlike drmichaellevin.org, here I post speculative ideas, personal thoughts on what our research means, nature photography, essays, interviews, etc. Register to be notified of books' progress, events, and news, access downloadable content, etc.