Serge Thill
@thill.bsky.social
Director of the Donders Centre for Cognition at www.ru.nl/donders
Interested, amongst others, in natural and artificial cognition, how humans and intelligent systems interact, and in theories of embodiment.
Interested, amongst others, in natural and artificial cognition, how humans and intelligent systems interact, and in theories of embodiment.
it requires synchronous communication but at the same time cuts out all the multimodal aspects while giving you just enough to really notice their absence. At least text is obviously impoverished (and asynch is possible)
phone calls are the uncanny valley of comms and not even practical
phone calls are the uncanny valley of comms and not even practical
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
it requires synchronous communication but at the same time cuts out all the multimodal aspects while giving you just enough to really notice their absence. At least text is obviously impoverished (and asynch is possible)
phone calls are the uncanny valley of comms and not even practical
phone calls are the uncanny valley of comms and not even practical
hatred of phone calls, no competition. We will accept Whatsapp/Signal as well as Teams/Zoom calls before we will even consider the phone.
August 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
hatred of phone calls, no competition. We will accept Whatsapp/Signal as well as Teams/Zoom calls before we will even consider the phone.
Amusingly, Godzilla is also the original name of Gojira (the band).
August 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Amusingly, Godzilla is also the original name of Gojira (the band).
I wonder if unlocking that kind of higher level metacognition would be a power or a curse 😁
August 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I wonder if unlocking that kind of higher level metacognition would be a power or a curse 😁
Ben tu vois, quand un éclair et un pain au chocolat s'aiment fortement..... 😁
August 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Ben tu vois, quand un éclair et un pain au chocolat s'aiment fortement..... 😁
Me too! Especially now that I seem to be living in Luxembourg again 😁
August 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Me too! Especially now that I seem to be living in Luxembourg again 😁
Yeah, there is definitely skill involved. Also making sure you don't turn the yolks into scrambled eggs because you didn't pay attention to the heat, etc. I still think it qualifies as a quick comfort-food-level dish though 😉
July 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Yeah, there is definitely skill involved. Also making sure you don't turn the yolks into scrambled eggs because you didn't pay attention to the heat, etc. I still think it qualifies as a quick comfort-food-level dish though 😉
Carbonara is great for teaching Mise en Place 101. There's really not a lot to prep, and it's not hard, but the difference between doing it and not doing it is the difference between a smooth 10 mins in the kitchen and overdone pasta congealing while you pick grated finger bits out of the cheese.
July 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Carbonara is great for teaching Mise en Place 101. There's really not a lot to prep, and it's not hard, but the difference between doing it and not doing it is the difference between a smooth 10 mins in the kitchen and overdone pasta congealing while you pick grated finger bits out of the cheese.
There's also this spoof of 9-11 conspiracy theory vids in case you still think Luke and Leia are the good guys in Star Wars 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47M...
Luke Change - an Inside Job
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July 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
There's also this spoof of 9-11 conspiracy theory vids in case you still think Luke and Leia are the good guys in Star Wars 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B47M...
I’d say that depends on the faculty 😁
I still have a pic from the blue drinks evening that miraculously survived a dozen mobile phone changes since then. Those were the times.
I still have a pic from the blue drinks evening that miraculously survived a dozen mobile phone changes since then. Those were the times.
June 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’d say that depends on the faculty 😁
I still have a pic from the blue drinks evening that miraculously survived a dozen mobile phone changes since then. Those were the times.
I still have a pic from the blue drinks evening that miraculously survived a dozen mobile phone changes since then. Those were the times.
Well, I probably wouldn’t make her chocolate guinness cake in a Glastonbury campsite tent 😁
June 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Well, I probably wouldn’t make her chocolate guinness cake in a Glastonbury campsite tent 😁
the trick is to realise they’re not mutually exclusive 😉
June 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
the trick is to realise they’re not mutually exclusive 😉
I have difficulties accepting this hypothetical because it feels like accepting that a thought would have an agreed-upon look seems to go against the definition of thought. Seems like this is creating an analogy or metaphor, not literally defining a look.
May 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I have difficulties accepting this hypothetical because it feels like accepting that a thought would have an agreed-upon look seems to go against the definition of thought. Seems like this is creating an analogy or metaphor, not literally defining a look.
as opposed to questions like “can something look like a thought?”
May 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
as opposed to questions like “can something look like a thought?”
It’s a concept with a relatively clear agreed-upon definition in terms of concrete components, so you can assess the degree to which something matches that definition?
May 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It’s a concept with a relatively clear agreed-upon definition in terms of concrete components, so you can assess the degree to which something matches that definition?
I have no solutions, but I saw this floating around on BSky not too long ago and it seems appropriate bsky.app/profile/stux...
May 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I have no solutions, but I saw this floating around on BSky not too long ago and it seems appropriate bsky.app/profile/stux...
Not sure that has a meaningful answer though.
April 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Not sure that has a meaningful answer though.
I understood it as being an assumption that people are either more likely to want or more likely to not want, and the puzzle being figuring out which one it is from the answers given.
(It's clear that "want AND not-want" is the most likely state, but the Q is how much of that is e.g. "want")
(It's clear that "want AND not-want" is the most likely state, but the Q is how much of that is e.g. "want")
April 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I understood it as being an assumption that people are either more likely to want or more likely to not want, and the puzzle being figuring out which one it is from the answers given.
(It's clear that "want AND not-want" is the most likely state, but the Q is how much of that is e.g. "want")
(It's clear that "want AND not-want" is the most likely state, but the Q is how much of that is e.g. "want")
That brings back memories 😊
April 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
That brings back memories 😊
Yay! Congrats and well deserved! 😊
April 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yay! Congrats and well deserved! 😊