Thomas Stück
@valiszebra.bsky.social
Process Platonism / Relational & Emergentist Ontology & Epistemology / Critical Deweyan Pedagogy / Psychedelic Humanism / Hermetic Platonism / Utopian Socialism
Reposted by Thomas Stück
Loved this video by @shaunvids.bsky.social about The War on Science book. Its full of fascinating, yet disturbing, snippets about some of the world's most famous scientists. Gold.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Loved this video by @shaunvids.bsky.social about The War on Science book. Its full of fascinating, yet disturbing, snippets about some of the world's most famous scientists. Gold.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...
Plato's Unwritten Doctrines
Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Plato's Unwritten Doctrines
cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hilarious and heart-warming essay on one of the depressingly deranged yet influential ideas exacerbating the near-eschatological extent of our McGilchristian masterless cultural matrix, no longer adequately explained by normal neoliberal scientistic STEMlordery, given its carnivalesque grotesquerie.
Against truth
Also against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular
samkriss.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Hilarious and heart-warming essay on one of the depressingly deranged yet influential ideas exacerbating the near-eschatological extent of our McGilchristian masterless cultural matrix, no longer adequately explained by normal neoliberal scientistic STEMlordery, given its carnivalesque grotesquerie.
Reposted by Thomas Stück
Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Steven Rose obituary
Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Reposted by Thomas Stück
#OTD, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard was born—a foundational figure in 20th-century French thought and historical epistemology. Bachelard’s #philsci stands out as an early attempt to conceptualize the role of instruments and technology in the production of knowledge. 1/ #philtech
June 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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I've always felt there ought to be a deep Chomsky/Friston connection from the standpoint of computational efficiency. Nice paper from Friston, Elliot Murphy, Emma Holmes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle - Synthese
Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy principle (FE...
link.springer.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I've always felt there ought to be a deep Chomsky/Friston connection from the standpoint of computational efficiency. Nice paper from Friston, Elliot Murphy, Emma Holmes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...