Al
@braininabab.bsky.social
23. she/her. queer. lover of all things macabre. 3rd year BSc Philosophy, Logic & The Scientific Method at LSE. Creator of @coffeenphilo.bsky.social
I love outlook reactions, something about sending off your dissertation title submission and instead of getting some automated formal rendition of 'yeah this checks out you're good' getting 'philosophy dept reacted 👍' is so funny
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I love outlook reactions, something about sending off your dissertation title submission and instead of getting some automated formal rendition of 'yeah this checks out you're good' getting 'philosophy dept reacted 👍' is so funny
me: see my dissertation proposal is based on the premise that if you were congenitally deafblind you'd lack auditory + visual mental reps due to lacking the associated senses, and so thus strong embodiment-
molyneux: I'm about to end this [woman's] whole [belief]
molyneux: I'm about to end this [woman's] whole [belief]
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
me: see my dissertation proposal is based on the premise that if you were congenitally deafblind you'd lack auditory + visual mental reps due to lacking the associated senses, and so thus strong embodiment-
molyneux: I'm about to end this [woman's] whole [belief]
molyneux: I'm about to end this [woman's] whole [belief]
my diss supervisor has the same name as me, loves cats, and had the same philo mind fixations at undergrad that I have now
I'm being supervised by the version of myself I aspire to be as a (hopefully) future academic
I'm being supervised by the version of myself I aspire to be as a (hopefully) future academic
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
my diss supervisor has the same name as me, loves cats, and had the same philo mind fixations at undergrad that I have now
I'm being supervised by the version of myself I aspire to be as a (hopefully) future academic
I'm being supervised by the version of myself I aspire to be as a (hopefully) future academic
the fact of looking after a vulnerable adult, a cat, a whole house and keeping up with my uni work for a meagre 6/12 days so far that I'm due to do so adds a lot more weight to the existing heavy reality the words 'future power of attourney' already bear
October 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
the fact of looking after a vulnerable adult, a cat, a whole house and keeping up with my uni work for a meagre 6/12 days so far that I'm due to do so adds a lot more weight to the existing heavy reality the words 'future power of attourney' already bear
brother care + keeping up with readings amounts to
my bro: what are you reading
me: gramsci
my bro: can you read it to me
me: *in the most treacherously exaggerated brummie accent known to man* this eelaboraytion muhst and can aownly bee puhformed in thuh context ov thuh histr'y ov phulosofee
my bro: what are you reading
me: gramsci
my bro: can you read it to me
me: *in the most treacherously exaggerated brummie accent known to man* this eelaboraytion muhst and can aownly bee puhformed in thuh context ov thuh histr'y ov phulosofee
October 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
brother care + keeping up with readings amounts to
my bro: what are you reading
me: gramsci
my bro: can you read it to me
me: *in the most treacherously exaggerated brummie accent known to man* this eelaboraytion muhst and can aownly bee puhformed in thuh context ov thuh histr'y ov phulosofee
my bro: what are you reading
me: gramsci
my bro: can you read it to me
me: *in the most treacherously exaggerated brummie accent known to man* this eelaboraytion muhst and can aownly bee puhformed in thuh context ov thuh histr'y ov phulosofee
I read the 'people' & 'research focus' pages of uni philosophy depts for masters applications like I'm looking at the insta page of someone I have a crush on & nothing makes me go 'teehee' like 'we have a particular interest in social philosophy/non-reductive physicalist accounts of mind'
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I read the 'people' & 'research focus' pages of uni philosophy depts for masters applications like I'm looking at the insta page of someone I have a crush on & nothing makes me go 'teehee' like 'we have a particular interest in social philosophy/non-reductive physicalist accounts of mind'
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why are you asking me, an analytic philosopher? we don't know anything. we *conceptualize* the *idea* of knowing
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Bertrand Russell's message to future generation is so relevant: look for the truth and the facts that support it and DON'T BE DIVERTED BY WHAT YOU WISH TO BELIEVE ...
philvideos.org/video/814/be...
philvideos.org/video/814/be...
October 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Bertrand Russell's message to future generation is so relevant: look for the truth and the facts that support it and DON'T BE DIVERTED BY WHAT YOU WISH TO BELIEVE ...
philvideos.org/video/814/be...
philvideos.org/video/814/be...
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In which I throw a small and very timid cat amongst some large and aggressive pigeons.
philpapers.org/rec/LEVTWO-10
philpapers.org/rec/LEVTWO-10
Neil Levy, The work of philosophy in the age of mechanical reproduction: How AI threatens the meaningfulness of philosophy - PhilPapers
Some philosophers have worried that AI threatens meaning in life by making humans redundant in the workplace or by relegating them to menial tasks. While these worries may be justified, there's ...
philpapers.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
In which I throw a small and very timid cat amongst some large and aggressive pigeons.
philpapers.org/rec/LEVTWO-10
philpapers.org/rec/LEVTWO-10
I think dostoevsky would've liked free improv- emergence of process > existence of product and all that jazz (literal, sometimes, in the case of the roots of free improv music) #philsky
September 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I think dostoevsky would've liked free improv- emergence of process > existence of product and all that jazz (literal, sometimes, in the case of the roots of free improv music) #philsky
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September 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"the lack of consensus about terminology & principles of classification [for outlining embodied cognition] generates some important ambiguities" well thank goody it's not just me who gets confused when I look into EC and get hit with 'embodied cognition aka 4E which is actually many more than 4 Es'
September 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"the lack of consensus about terminology & principles of classification [for outlining embodied cognition] generates some important ambiguities" well thank goody it's not just me who gets confused when I look into EC and get hit with 'embodied cognition aka 4E which is actually many more than 4 Es'
the internet tendency to shame people for reading books in public period makes me press my book into my lap and hide like I'm harbouring a pet on an airplane I don't want some random weirdo taking a photo of me and going 'look at this pretentious son of a gun being literate smh'
this is such a shitty thing to do to people trying to read a book, jesus christ
I'm seeing a social media trend where people are sneaking pics of men reading books in public and making fun of them as "performative males"
And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying
And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying
September 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the internet tendency to shame people for reading books in public period makes me press my book into my lap and hide like I'm harbouring a pet on an airplane I don't want some random weirdo taking a photo of me and going 'look at this pretentious son of a gun being literate smh'
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People also use this analogy about guns. So let’s treat chatgpt (and guns) like cars: you need a license, you need to carry insurance, and the industry is highly regulated.
A neighbor beamed about using chatgpt all the time for his work. I told him about the suicide issues. His response: people die in cars all the time but we still keep driving
August 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
People also use this analogy about guns. So let’s treat chatgpt (and guns) like cars: you need a license, you need to carry insurance, and the industry is highly regulated.
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From Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Now known as The Trump Defence.
August 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
From Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Now known as The Trump Defence.
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only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
writing an essay for university will never be as anxiety inducing as beginning to co-write a paper for an actual journal with a philosophy bud who, yknow, has an actual PhD and sure I got some conceptual engineering and gender and social epistemology insights to give but Idon'tevenhaveafulldegreeyet
August 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM
writing an essay for university will never be as anxiety inducing as beginning to co-write a paper for an actual journal with a philosophy bud who, yknow, has an actual PhD and sure I got some conceptual engineering and gender and social epistemology insights to give but Idon'tevenhaveafulldegreeyet
Had an absolute blast volunteering for the first time with CAMRA at the GBBF and at my first beer festival, really inclusive community sound people also got to have a nerdy ramble about language limits consciousness & beer tasting taking pub philosophy quite literally 😂
August 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Had an absolute blast volunteering for the first time with CAMRA at the GBBF and at my first beer festival, really inclusive community sound people also got to have a nerdy ramble about language limits consciousness & beer tasting taking pub philosophy quite literally 😂
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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
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Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
July 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
working on a scepticism 'beat the demon' type interactive fiction game using twine to try and make the theoretical content of the 'limits of knowledge' section of the a-level a little less intimidating and fun lemme tell you it's gonna take me weeks but it'll be so worth it
July 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
working on a scepticism 'beat the demon' type interactive fiction game using twine to try and make the theoretical content of the 'limits of knowledge' section of the a-level a little less intimidating and fun lemme tell you it's gonna take me weeks but it'll be so worth it
think I'm gonna have to just hole up in my room and cry for 3 days when I finish mary a fiction I had time to read the first 2 short, short chapters today between looking after my brother and I already felt my gut wrENCH this is too close to home in many many many ways and thoughts and experiences
July 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
think I'm gonna have to just hole up in my room and cry for 3 days when I finish mary a fiction I had time to read the first 2 short, short chapters today between looking after my brother and I already felt my gut wrENCH this is too close to home in many many many ways and thoughts and experiences
so pumped, my summer philosophy fic reads have arrived! I've wanted to read wollstonecraft for a couple years ever since I read about her in 'philosophy queens' and immediately projected on a personal level- my uncle rec'd 'the black prince' to me recently also & I've never read murdoch so yay!
July 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
so pumped, my summer philosophy fic reads have arrived! I've wanted to read wollstonecraft for a couple years ever since I read about her in 'philosophy queens' and immediately projected on a personal level- my uncle rec'd 'the black prince' to me recently also & I've never read murdoch so yay!
when I search for documentaries on consciousness for every one that is an actual theory of mind discussion there are a good five that are just about tripping balls on psychedelics
July 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
when I search for documentaries on consciousness for every one that is an actual theory of mind discussion there are a good five that are just about tripping balls on psychedelics