andrew haun

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it's a great image, though i think the painting doesn't quite live up to it

Where did all you zombies come from!?

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

first i look at your figures & tables; then i read your figure captions; then i peruse your methods and results to better understand your figures & tables. i probably don't read your intro or disc at all unless you cited me and/or i'm in a bad mood.

I love this so much. After pushback on his recent "Medicine is the only field that reaches 6 sigma" with "my field, psychophysics is so awesome" he posted this. Hurray all Psychophysicists. LETS CELEBRATE PSYCHOPHYSICS. An island of large effects is us!

my only advice is not to fall off the faculty track and get stuck simply "doing science" - i'm now getting paid less than new postdocs *in my lab* ("the lab i am in") 🤦‍♂️

either become a professor or get a real job, don't take the in-between if you want $$$, that's my ted talk

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

yes - but leaning towers illusion?

unless function and/or computation are inflated to cover *anything* a connected system does (typical move for computation, less for function - i think)

but if you carefully divorce the concept of 'pain' from its normal functional role (the 'painfulness of pain'), no i don't think IIT can be taken to require any particular functional organization for 'feeling pain'

i don't know this stuff well at all, but it seems that basing the definition around something like "pain" - which has very strong functional connotations - is different from basing it around "consciousness"

ugggghhh why do i keep agreeing to review philosophy papers uggghhhh

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Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave

New - my first piece for @science.org !

Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.

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YouTube video by Jesse Welles Join Ice

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I think Jesse Welles is the protest folk singer of our time.. "Join Ice", "War isn't Murder", "No Kings", he's been cranking them out for a year or two now..

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Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate

i do not.. but our new TICS paper circles around the same idea:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

of course, if there's interest. let me know!

i'd be interested to hear reactions/feedback!

The unfathomable richness of seeing Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more than this – it is unfatho...

The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

this is really neat, but couldn't one argue that *all the low-level properties have changed*. every contrast has been rotated and translated - content at every position has been replaced with different content.

to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"

but then i wonder. i'm trying it out right now - if i think "this friday" it definitely feels i'm thinking of "the coming friday", but if i think "this monday", i'm thinking of yesterday. is the dividing line at the weekend? so "this" is about "this week", and the days are subdivisions of that?

so you have "this" friday, which is the one that hasn't happened yet (that's "this past" or "last" friday), unless you're speaking in past tense, then "this" friday is "last" friday. then (in past tense), "next" friday would be "this" (coming) friday, since as always "next" is after "this".

i have to fixate the yellow and focus really hard on it, and once i get it foregrounded it's hard to hold on to it (it is relatively easier upside down, yeah)

reading the text is extremely disheartening because it's so familiar

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

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