Peter Moleman

We're with you.

Als iemand zegt: "Je zult moeten begrijpen" dan is dat voor mij reden niet in gesprek te gaan.

YouTube video by LUBACH Karen Hao over een andere versie van de toekomst met AI | LUBACH

Gebruik je ChatGPT? Kijk hier even naar.
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I argue that the important question is not, as commonly assumed, about categorical vs dimensional systems, but rather (agreeing with Meehl) about whether observable surface structure is a reflection of low-level causal mechanisms. Disagreeing with Meehl, I conclude that the answer is usually no. /2

Asking homeowners for permission would kill the burglary industry

They don't grow mini human brains. They grow increasingly complex structures of human brain cells. Interesting important work, but that is NOT growing mini human brains.

Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen (and how to protect democracy in a divided world) - Teri Kanefield
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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

2024 Swedish study on 2.5M people's data:
"Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability... This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding."
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Polytasking?

Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.

Luiz Pessoa: Beyond billard ball causation in the brain!
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@PessoaBrain

And often contain overarching interpretations of research (programs) not in the journal articles!

Except mostly they are not controversial, just inconvenient.

Hoe ik vertrok uit Gaza – en voor het eerst oog in oog stond met een Israëlische soldaat Mijn leven lang kende ik het Israëlische leger alleen van veraf: van de vliegtuigen, raketten en drones die de dood over ons in Gaza uitstorten. Maar tijdens mijn evacuatie naar Nederland zag ik voor ...

Hoe ik vertrok uit Gaza – en voor het eerst oog in oog stond met een Israëlische soldaat decorrespondent.nl/16372/hoe-ik...

The US as viewed by latenight comedians in Europe (it’s 20 secs of Dutch, the rest is English. We are so worried about you all we’re specifically trying to reach you through our latenight I guess…)

De Correspondent verwelkomt de Palestijnse journalist Ahmed Abu Artema uit Gaza De Palestijnse journalist, schrijver en mensenrechtenactivist Ahmed Abu Artema publiceert vandaag zijn eerste artikel op De Correspondent, nadat hij drie weken geleden met onze hulp uit Gaza

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Now follows your explanation, including a definition of "illusion".....

Sure Alexey, you can follow Panksepp. Great scientist but his work is now outdated by a few decades. Anyway the literature is vast so I prefer to sample very broadly and learn from many viewpoints. A single one is always myopic by definition. And scientific disagreements are good thing for science!

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

@dickretired.bsky.social can you give the references of Parnia and Ehhrson?

Left and right don't exist if you look up.

One of the problems is the idea that language is the expression of consciousness.

The point would be (I think) that there must be (a) closure in the loops from thalamus and/or brain stem nuclei to cortex and back which is/instantiates (?) the control parameter (which is external in non-biological or non-brain complex systems). Could that be correct?
@kathrynnave.bsky.social

... constraints through low-dimensional units (thalamus and/or brain stem) on the one hand and closure of constraints: Kate Nave (2025): A drive to survive; ISBN 978-0-262-55132-8 and Alicia Juarrero (2023): Context changes everything: how constraints create coherence; ISBN 978-0-262-37477-4?

@macshine.bsky.social I am (re)reading your (and collaborators) recent work from:
Müller EJ, Munn BR, Shine JM (2025): The brain that controls itself. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 63:101499.
backwards.
Do you see a connection between ....

DOI: 10.1017/psa.2025.10115

Important for discussions about agency and free will:
Hermida M, Ladyman J (2025): Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology. Philosophy of Science :1–18.
#neuroscience #consciousness #freewill #reductionism

Worth listening to every second. #neuroscience

I am eager to follow that discussion! Please discuss it here, or provide links to where you discuss it!
@dickretired.bsky.social

Painting by Dutch artist Kenne Grégoire "MAGA", acryl on wood. Man with red tie and orange instead of his head Text: "I AM THE BEST ORANGE THE US EVER HAD!".

Painting by Dutch artist Kenne Grégoire, 2025.

That does not work very well. The answer will mostly be "no". The question must be: what financial interest and other ties does the author have? The judgement whether that is a conflict of interest should not be left to the author him/herself. @wiringthebrain.bsky.social