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 😍

07.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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...

30.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Up until around 2016, I could drive Facebook in ways which struck me as indispensable for my networks… but gradually, we found changes in the algorithms meant we were all stuck in dysfunctional silos. Now? It's just a dysfunctional mess that makes users work for Meta / FB's commercial gain 😩

17.01.2025 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @snowded When one can read a 300+ page book on complexity in just over an hour, one starts to weep for what is happening to the field 6:01 PM · Dec 27, 2024 · 3,288 Views

If anything we've seen to date is a fair indication of what to expect, then if you were to live-tweet the forthcoming publication, I suspect you might just end up echoing this post from @snowded.bsky.social 🙄
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14.01.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TWELFETIDE 24:03 a need for Context - The Cynefin Co One of the most common assumptions in many a management field is the assumption that if you could get the right information to the right people at the right time, and if those people had the right tra...

💥 "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" & "the danger of being data-driven is the assumption that the answer is already out there" - @snowded.bsky.social blog to end 2024 💯👇
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31.12.2024 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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…

31.12.2024 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"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/

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" 🙄
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31.12.2024 22:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

"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" 👇

19.12.2024 07:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I could change one thing about the current system it would be funding duration. Abolish anything shorter than a decade, and aim at a median of 15 years, and WITHOUT pre determined KPIs. THEN we could see questions about area of study get more interesting 🤔

17.12.2024 21:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

“…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 😎
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22.11.2024 21:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0