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There is no evidence that we have this faculty, except that we seem to feel that we have it. But the weight of that testimony depends entirely on our being supposed to have the power of distinguishing in this feeling whether the feeling be the result of education, old associations, etc.,
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Many Minds: Brains of a feather Birds do the darnedest things. They fly, of course. They sing. They hunt in pitch darkness. They hide their food and remember where they put it. They use tools and migrate over astonishingly vast dist...

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Brains of a feather
Many Minds
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Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:41:00 +0000
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#cogsci #neuroskyance

shit ain’t over til it’s over

def gonna read this later

"social media enabled op-ed writers to see what people actually thought of their drivel for the first time and it drove them incurably insane" theory wins out every time

daves not here, man

like wht is the ploint of dropping a letter if you just timidy replace?

wow!

if you use an apostrophe ur a poser

if you dont know what the problem is, IM not going to tell you!

i know you mean well, but not all austists are so-called 'high functioning' and the more profoundly disabled individuals are the most disadvantaged.

moloch? more like Smoloch

Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 500% To 1500% ByBruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor. Bruce Y. Lee,

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

all the complicated details really just obscure the simple fact that WE are US, but THEY are THEM

yes

of course not. i have lists
of words that i hate

seems like what is to be done is yammer about how bad AI is constantly

operational coherence sounds like a myth

almost all books arent read by scientists AT ALL
if we strip it down,
"why arent most books read" indicates the sort of presuppositions we need to be wary of

"equality" is a convenient shorthand for the much less convenient concept of not being too outrageously unequal in specific ways. we are never equal exceot before the law. and we definitely arent equal there either.

this one

goddamn drunks

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Stella @antlervel.vet • 1h I love when women are attractive The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social I like it when they're kind. Stella @antlervel.vet • 1h Who cares what you like I'm talking about me The Radical Capitalist @theradcap... • 34s Many men agree with me. Don't you like men? Stella @antlervel.vet • now No!

you know what would help us feel the power of care? caring

you were performing your supportivity. that doesnt help him! he needs to focus on not-you, your only job is to let him.

it’s funny that for years we’ve spent every day hoping he will shut up and go away and then when he does we’re like WHERE IS HE?!

too real

yeah women are basically immune to victim mentality. only men are constaantly blaming others for how they feel.