Mike Anderson

YouTube video by Brain Inspired BI 232 How Should Neuroscience Integrate with Ecological Psychology?

Luis Favela, @dewitmm.bsky.social, and yours truly talked to @braininspired.bsky.social about ecological neuroscience. Among other things, we tried to comment on how to make "affordances" and "ecological information" helpful for neuroscientists. Check it out!
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The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference The free energy principle (FEP) has been presented as a unified brain theory, as a general principle for the self-organization of biological systems, …

109%. So this one is for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The World Well Gained: On the Epistemic Implications of Ecological Information AbstractMany commentators on Clark’s writings on predictive processing have wondered how well the predictive processing model actually fits with embodied a

And this one: academic.oup.com/book/34918/c...

There’s also this attempt: uwo.scholaris.ca/items/925afc...

Btw, do you mean the Turvey perception book (2018)?

Of course, keep in mind if Hohwy can make something Cartesian, he will…

Moreover it’s deeply mired in inferentialism and internal model building.

What’s your estimate for how many times we need to learn something before we learn it?

Radical embodiment in two directions - Synthese Radical embodied cognitive science is split into two camps: the ecological approach and the enactive approach. We propose that these two approaches can be brought together into a productive synthesis....

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I get the sentiment, but it’s an overly broad judgment. Sometimes a student, in conversation for instance, offers a crucial insight and you invite them to help finish a paper.

The mistake seems to come from citing Cisek, who *does* say affordances are “represented”. But he’s using the neural meaning of representation which is much looser than the CTM definition. What Cisek says is compatible with neural resonance, which is a bona fide Gibsonian notion.

Galvanic

Elements in Philosophy of MInd Welcome to Cambridge Core

Just signed a contract for a Cambridge Elements in Ecological Neuroscience! With @diovicen.bsky.social Look for it in a year or so.

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*Explicitly* and long known, but often not properly reflected in interpretation and conclusions.

Yes. Looks like confirmation with better methods of something we knew more than 20 years ago. And as @jtheriault.bsky.social points out, it’s even more complicated than this. Oversimplification has been a drag on neuroscience for decades.

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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! 👇

Jonathan’s most recent publication. As he continues on this path, he’s on track to change our understanding of insight learning. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3i9cn...

WS World University Rankings. Western U philosophy program in top 50; #2 in Canada. www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

Why Natural General Intelligence (Still) Reigns Supreme When someone tells you that AI is going to replace human intelligence, you can honestly tell them that, as of this writing, it's impossible. So far, AI only reproduces what we do.

Very simple post on why AI is less than meets the eye. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/afte...

It’s a spiral staircase. Focus on elevation over angular position

Not exactly. Immigration per se isn’t in the constitution (congress has explicit control over naturalization, but not immigration). So it’s a bit of a legal black hole. The executive says that its authority over foreign affairs gives it power over immigration, and the courts have deferred to this.

There are *very* few legal checks on presidential control over immigration.

Western Philosophy Department is hiring!

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On its way to me

Send cites please

Crazy, right? But *very* many women friends of mine report men intimidated by their MD or PhD. There’s a cultural change that eventually needs to happen, but clearly hasn’t yet.

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library This study bridges brain and body through ecological psychology and neuroscience by demonstrating how ecological information—in this case, “time to contact” or tau—constrains brain activity and as mu...

Is ecological neuroscience a feasible enterprise? After some theoretical work on ecological resonance, we've engaged on experimental research to test some of the hypotheses that follow from it. These are the first results of (hopefully) many more to come! It's open access 👇
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And the best news is the data are publicly available, so we can look at things from a more ecological constraint-oriented perspective (rather than a coding-based approach)

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain.

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