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YouTube video by Isaiah Sonneland Robin Hood Rooster Song

Seeing this got me like

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPw...

Whenever I feel bad about the quality of my academic output (which is often) I just think "Hey, at least you're not Francis Fukuyama" and immediately get a little lift

I was on stage with Iggy Pop and got to high-five Mike Watt mid-performance

Time to mint my useless frequent traveler DB status into real gold

old shame, new object

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

Move over LLMs, it's time for wetware DOOM

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Diane, It's February 24th...

No idea, but judging by the pic it might be Aragorn, son of Arathorn

"They say that the pen is mightier than the sword.
I keep a small sword just in case they are wrong."

A copy of Richard Rorty's book held open by a scale replica of a medieval longsword

I was looking for a copy of Rorty's "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" and found one that belongs to a true pragmatist...

Rousseau, on the other hand...

The process has always been the core of what matters. Somehow, many academics seem to have forgot that we are not purveyors of content or sellers of ideas. I feel like some Greek and Aramaic philosophers might have made points like that. But you don’t have to buy their arguments to get the point…

When people call out my philosophical style

What's really ironic here is that B. Goertzel is also the originator of the idea of a monological belief system (where potentially false beliefs mutually reinforce and justify each-other other), which was popularized in the literature on conspiracies by his father, T. Goertzel.

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend -- read Mary Hesse!
aeon.co/essays/why-a...

I appreciate you sharing the link, but I'm familiar with the position, and while I understand it is a stance one can take in the debate over the nature of consciousness, I think it only gets more bonkers the deeper one goes.

✨We are glad to announce that Inès Mentec, Ivan Ivanchei and Axel Cleeremans’ paper “Exploring the Role of Micro-Valence in the Phenomenal Space: Insights from Similarity Judgments and Deep Learning Models” has been accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness! 👇Check the feed for highlights

I always thought that those conversations were just a nerdy version of the stereotypical male one-upmanship where one side is trying to demonstrate they are better than the other, except by proxy

The Self-Evidencing Agent What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social

Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.

I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

The replication crisis is gonna look like a joke in a few years 😰

The speakers are good and I have a lot of respect for their rigour. It's just that we don't agree on the essential premise that allows their arguments to get off the ground...

YouTube video by Venetian Snares - Topic Gentleman

Venetian Snares has a track about this article

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCR8...

brick that doesn't fit the shape of the pavement layout with the caption "me trying to fit in"

That feeling when you're the only illusionist at a panpsychism conference

The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment This paper presents an extended thought experiment conducted by Daniel Dennett and the author as a way of exploring how consciousness might develop without a central “Cartesian Theater.” The starti...

I'm delighted that @journalphp.bsky.social is the home of this paper, born out of the long-standing & extremely fruitful collaboration between @keithfrankish.com & Daniel Dennett. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy (soon to appear in our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas)

Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.