I've been reading this. I wasn't expecting Fodor to be a pro evo-devo / EES person as he is renowned for his naive nativism.
For my second master's here at Tartu Semiotics, probably I'll be working on either paramecium or c. elegans. Sounds interesting.
Even LinkedIn is better.
I do want to use BluSky. But I can't. For some reason, even though the content I see here is pretty interesting, the interface, the platform itself, the layout etc. are boring, too boring.
You are all invited!
What were, in your opinion, the most interesting and prominent papers published in the fields of cognitive science in 2025?
Haha, no worries. Miscommunication happens all the time. ✌️
Yeah, the original paper is published in English and we translated it into Turkish. Here is the original one:
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
We have translated "No one knows what attention is" paper. It's such a good paper that changes how one looks at cognitive science in general. A must-read!
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
Social Psychology evidence
Neisser also hung out with the Gibson’s at Cornell, got really intrigued on the ecological approach, and freaked out the information processing people by writing Cognition & Reality. Good interview with him on all this here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...
Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.
We’re excited to host @mljanderson.bsky.social in our next CogIST Cognitive Webinar. For more information and registration the link is the down below in the replies! 👇
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In this chapter, I examine AGI at the intersection of technical proposals, historical background, and philosophical critique, asking what the idea of “general intelligence” really commits us to – and where its limits might lie. 2/2
I’m happy to share that my book chapter, titled “Artificial General Intelligence: What It Is, What It Is Not, What It Could Be, Is It Possible?”, has just been published in the new volume Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence by Doruk Publishing. 1/2
Join us at our first Cognitive Webinar of the year! Tomorrow we will listen to Sophie Slaats (PhD) from the Université de Genève and we'll talk about language and brain!
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Join us on November 17 for an insightful talk by Dr. Jedediah Allen on how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory continues to shape our understanding of the human mind.
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"Herbart’ın yaklaşımı, daha sonra psikofizik, bilişsel modelleme ve zihne işlemlemesel yaklaşımların gelişimini önceleyen bir çizgi oluşturdu."
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"Herbart’s vision of psychology as a formal science, grounded in mathematical relations, anticipated later developments in psychophysics, cognitive modeling, and computational approaches to the mind."
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This is why I share the draft not as a finished argument but as an open invitation for critique, dialogue, and correction, especially from colleagues working in psychotherapy and psychiatry. 8/8
This is still a work in progress. As I note at the beginning of the text, I am a cognitive scientist and a philosopher of science, not a psychotherapist or psychiatrist. I probably missed many aspects of clinical practice. 7/n
The result is a text that rethinks “therapy” from the ground up conceptually, epistemologically, and ethically. Whether it is “right” is dubitable. What I am certain of is that it is radically questioning and, I hope, intellectually provocative. 6/n
The paper also tries to address two guiding questions: 1) What would a form of therapy look like if it were grounded in radically embodied cognition? 2)What can the framework of radically externalist cognition, developed in my master’s thesis tell us about the nature and possibility of therapy? 5/n
RET rejects the idea of a separate “psyche,” grounding human issues and healing in developmental, physiological, and socio-environmental processes. It also seeks to integrate medical and psychotherapeutic reasoning within a unified, embodied logic. 4/n
