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Heads-up: another FEP piece by a critic that is also a spectacularly accessible way in to challenging, potentially problematic, but none-the-less astonishing body of research. Cf. @bayesianboy.bsky.social on The Math is not the Territory and @diovicen.bsky.social on the Markov Blanket Trick 😍
Some excellent reflections on the different claims made by the FEP.
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Is the brain an organ for free energy minimisation? - Philosophical Studies
Two striking claims are advanced on behalf of the free energy principle (FEP) in cognitive science and philosophy: (i) that it identifies a condition of the possibility of existence for self-organisin...
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February 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Heads-up: another FEP piece by a critic that is also a spectacularly accessible way in to challenging, potentially problematic, but none-the-less astonishing body of research. Cf. @bayesianboy.bsky.social on The Math is not the Territory and @diovicen.bsky.social on the Markov Blanket Trick 😍
Yes, Cognitive Psychology advocates HAVE systematically kicked the can down the road - it's a "science" based on faith that someday, someone else will bridge the gaps identified by everyone from Bergson and James to Deleuze and Guattari - see cognitioninaction.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/7.-g...
January 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yes, Cognitive Psychology advocates HAVE systematically kicked the can down the road - it's a "science" based on faith that someday, someone else will bridge the gaps identified by everyone from Bergson and James to Deleuze and Guattari - see cognitioninaction.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/7.-g...
Decades ago, my supervisor noted that "seemingly never bereft of conscious and understood motive, the historiographical Asante sometimes appear to traverse existence as if it was nothing more than a consensually agreed calculus of reason and logic… the automata of materialist rationalism" - and now…
Yes, for too long, lazy theoria & praxis has assumed that "if you could get the right information to the right people at the right time, & if those people had the right training, the right mindset & the right authority, then magically all would be well with the world" 🙄
thecynefin.co/twelfetide-2...
thecynefin.co/twelfetide-2...
!["The drive to be data-driven is interesting as it confuses a means with an end. Data acquisition becomes the tail that wags the dog. To take a typical example, you start with a legitimate desire to acquire data about the activity. Still, it becomes a compulsive desire on the part of the analysts who use the data (generally not the decision-makers) to get more and more data. As a result, you get constant incremental requests from client-facing staff for numerical reports to the point where form completion is more important than client acquisition or retention" [Cont]…
https://thecynefin.co/twelfetide-2403-a-need-for-context/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rktk24ycmf3ihadopzubav2m/bafkreid4eqgdhdgbcrjgg6gg7s2yquu5ck2bn5d5ivopj5ll7z2ex7qqja@jpeg)
December 31, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Decades ago, my supervisor noted that "seemingly never bereft of conscious and understood motive, the historiographical Asante sometimes appear to traverse existence as if it was nothing more than a consensually agreed calculus of reason and logic… the automata of materialist rationalism" - and now…
"it influences the types of experiments we conduct, the analyses we apply, and the interpretations we give to our findings. It reorients our focus from finding a region’s “function” to understanding how neural interactions, feedback loops, and ever-changing contexts give rise to functional states" 👇
7) "It means shifting from simple localization tasks to computational models that simulate evolving neural states and test how patterns of connectivity and interactions produce behavior. In other words, the difference in frameworks is not just conceptual;"
December 19, 2024 at 7:42 AM
"it influences the types of experiments we conduct, the analyses we apply, and the interpretations we give to our findings. It reorients our focus from finding a region’s “function” to understanding how neural interactions, feedback loops, and ever-changing contexts give rise to functional states" 👇
“…the process of drafting is actually a key part of the process of producing work …Everyone who actually creates things understands this. It's ok that it's hard! It's ok that it doesn't work the first time!
Nicely put, @adw.bsky.social 😎
psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/gene...
Nicely put, @adw.bsky.social 😎
psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/gene...
Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)
I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricity it...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:14 PM
“…the process of drafting is actually a key part of the process of producing work …Everyone who actually creates things understands this. It's ok that it's hard! It's ok that it doesn't work the first time!
Nicely put, @adw.bsky.social 😎
psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/gene...
Nicely put, @adw.bsky.social 😎
psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/gene...