Peter Moleman

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL...

Great Science! Thinking can do without language. Only I could not tell this without language.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot...

Whether a drug works or not: it always has side effects!

Congrats Paul for yet another great podcast

Geneticist here. Anyone telling you that they can just change intelligence (which isn't what IQ measures well anyways) by fiddling with a few genes is just straight-up grifting, it doesn't work like that. And yes it's basically definitionally eugenics.

The point here is not about Watson. It's about how science deals with Watson-like behaviour, of which there is still plenty around. And that includes Watsonian genetic determinism and quasi-eugenics (or not even quasi).

Tatiana Engel explains how to connect high-dimensional neural circuitry with low-dimensional cognitive functions Neuroscientists have long sought to understand the relationship between structure and function in the vast connectivity and activity patterns in the brain. Engel discusses her modeling approach to…

In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social discusses her modeling approach to discovering the connections between structure and function in the vast connectivity and activity patterns in the brain.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Cartoon of a person stumbling out of a time machine and saying to another person: "I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care.”

ha yeah

@mims.bsky.social
What if all journalists start calling useful AI "APS" Artificial Problem Solver and the other AI just AI or ANI Artificial Non Intelligence?

@mims.bsky.social
What if all journalists start calling usefull AI "APS" Artificial Problem Solver and the other "ANI Artificial Non Intelligence

Sigh. My experience is similar - I explain what interoception is but then comes a barrage of skepticism around whether it matters. Ideas about dualism are pervasive in thinking about thinking, & with brains given such an elevated status it's tricky to think of brain-ness being located elsewhere!

Who is the brillant teacher who found a way to get kids to listen to Beethoven’s 5th—and like it! #AMomentofJoy

Advies - Burgerberaad klimaat Advies

Enkele zojuist verschenen adviezen uit het Burgerberaad Klimaat:
-Minder voedselverspilling
-Stimuleren duurzame landbouw
-Een verplichte garantie van 6 jaar voor apparaten
-Hogere belasting op kerosine
-Stimuleren fietsgebruik
Lees het gehele advies hier: burgerberaadklimaat.nl/advies/defau...

no norris 10th

verstappen 1st, piastri 3rd, norris 9th?

The hippocampus is not a library, it is a simulation engine.

HPC is known for storing maps of the environment but not so known for generating planned trajectories.

This paper proposes that recurrence in CA3 is crucial for planning.

A🧵with my toy model and notes:

#neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI

Inventing what we already know!

One idea I find particularly weird is the worry that AI would somehow become dangerous if consciousness "arises" in it.

Like, what exactly do you think happens inside those chips? Some ghost in the machine begins flipping bits? Don't GPUs compute and electricity flow as they used to or what?

There's just an awful lot of bad shit out there, people...

#philsky

Thx

Interesting research! But it depends on what you call the slate. The question is whether there is a relation to function. Or is it a slate with letters that are only ordered into words, sentences (meaning) if exposed to the world?

link directly to the preprint?

Survivor bias: men that died despite the screening do not report this (sorry for the rather cynical wording). In addition many treatments may be unnecessary because the cancer is slowly growing. In case of prostate cancer screening may have negative effects more often than positive effects.

David Cameron: I had prostate cancer. That’s why I back screening The former PM’s wife urged him to have the tests that revealed he had cancer. Now he’s calling for a targeted screening programme

This is a good example of survivor bias:
www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
#prostate #cancer #bias #screening #healthcare

First make sure this regime will end!

So after listening to multiple talks by philosophers of mind who defend consciousness as the substrate of the entire universe, and physicists who invoke quantum mechanics as the source of consciousness, the conclusion is clear: they have no idea about neuroscience, nor any interest to know about it.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

I don’t use AI for anything in my academic or personal life. I value almost nothing more than my ability to think and to freely express myself. Even when I make mistakes, at least they are my mistakes.
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

In light of the assault on American science by its own government that launched in January this year, we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook in June to provide some guidance to scholars about how to respond to an emerging autocracy. The handbook is available at: sks.to/autocracy. 1/n


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