Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name

Yep

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I would respond with a smart yet relatable comment expressing my thoughts on this issue, but I can't help notice you didn't pay for your subscription yet

Would this support the case that competency is embedded in perceptive integration?

No... It can't be....

Bringing journalists into classrooms works in countries where journalism is still widely trusted, but in the UK and US, institutional trust is weak. You can’t rebuild public confidence by leaning on institutions people already see as compromised or partisan.

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

My entry for the SEP on externalism vs. internalism about justification is now live.

plato.stanford.edu/entries/just...

I did understand your response as a rebuttal of the claim in OP, apologies and thanks for clarifying!

"I fully trust you when you say that children exposed to social media display more anxious traits, but I'm not clear on what is your stance on the nature of the mental states involved. Is the anxiety a natural kind, or merely supervenient on underlying dynamics?"

"I don't know much about oxydation in gene transcription so I'll assume your experiment holds, but I can't help noting that the authors call onto a supposed genetic code is misguided. Please explain how those results apply in light of recent development on biological information and resubmit"

I'm considering signing up as a reviewer to the Journal of Computational Biology and asking every single article they send me to elaborate their stance on whether Rosen's later categorical formalization of (M, R) systems adequately addresses the limitation of his earlier set theoretic work

It is actually invigorating to fill what was initially a quite good and focused argument with a slop of whatever opinions I can make up on a mostly unrelated topic I don't really understand

I will never be tired of responding to reviews in the spirit of "hmmm that's a fine argument you made, but I'm not interested in it, how about you make an entirely new argument about stuff I'm interested in"

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...

“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899. A two-headed eagle tries to take a book of law from a white and blue clad maiden.

Since it is Finland’s Independence Day today, here’s probably the most famous Finnish patriotic painting ever. My favourite too!

Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law.

The rule of law.

“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.

(If you're wondering whether I have nothing better to do than rant about cognitive science on Bluesky, yes I do, that's precisely what I'm trying to procrastinate)

Or at least that's the argument I make here:

Guénin--Carlut, Avel, and Isaac Dubourg. 2024. “Power, Ritual, and Identity - A Cognitive Study of Conversion to the Unification Church.” Preprint, OSF, December 27. doi.org/10.31219/osf....

And in my view, this is precisely why ritual is causally effective in constraining behavior!

The habits formed in ritual activity (be they habits of perception or habits of action) actually form the agent's "real" world- and self-model and hence "really" shape their activity.

A belief just is an habit of the mind, an implicit premise of the agent's practices.

It doesn't make much difference whether it's grounded in social activity, or in principled reasoning. The agent is gonna what they think they're gonna do.

The Clothes of the Empire : an Active Inference account of identity capture Ideology is an extremely polysemic term, which does not entail more in itself than the existence of some system of belief, values or discourse that is somehow mobilized in the political field. It is s...

As discussed in my comment on @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social 's "The Empire has no clothes", this means there is no clear division between "public" and "private" beliefs.

kairos-research.org/clothes-of-t....

Hence, there is no such thing as a "belief" in the modern, rational sense. A given (biological, social, material) context calls for a given action, and that's how "mental states" generally speaking emerge.

In this model, both perception and action flows from the implicit prediction of active and sensory states embedded in biological dynamics.

As usual, my argument stems from predictive-enactive models of cognition, i.e. Active Inference - which I admit is my view "a model" in the same sense that gravity is.

There is however one point I'd like to nipick - if it is adequate to outpedant the OG pedant

The article a quite clear dichotomy between "performative belief" (displayed so as to produce an expected social effect) and "genuinely held" belief. But IMO, this dichotomy doesn't quite hold water!

Collections: Practical Polytheism, Part I: Knowledge Today we’re going to start looking at one facet of how polytheistic religions function, their practicality. This is going to be a four-part series (II, III, IV) looking at some of the general…

Really enjoyed @bretdevereaux.bsky.social 's piece about the logic of ancient polytheism, with a suprising but clear explanation by analogy to Finlandization (hi @jmkorhonen.fi !)

acoup.blog/2019/10/25/c...

YouTube video by The Dissenter #1003 Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

In episode 1003, I talk with Dr. Andy Clark about his book, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality. #Philosophy #CognitiveScience

youtu.be/FEgs7SL6xg0

We could of course engage in a discussion about whether such emergent models "really exists", but it seems to me like a quite empty discussion to have - pretty much for the reason laid out by Dennet in his Intentional Systems paper

I don't think this is proof against having a forward predictive model, if only because the FEP shows that those can be implemented in "bare" dynamics!

When the umbrella starts to leak: Securing NATO’s Eastern Flank after the new U.S. security strategy The new U.S. National Security Strategy shifts the United States to an unreliable ally at best – an active threat at worst. Europe and in particular NB8 countries on NATO’s Eastern Flan…

The new US #NationalSecurityStrategy is so alarming that I spent hours today on this piece, rather than my real work.

We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.

jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.

Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.

Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case: