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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

systems interact with their environments via their boundaries, and cannot ``reach outside their boundaries'' to more directly measure or manipulate their environments.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Title of section 1 summarizes it: "The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience" The brain as a complex network. Looks like a fantastic book. #neuroskyence

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Is evolution predictable? Would the biosphere look the same if we re-played the tape of evolution, as conjectured by SJ Gould? Here's an excellent paper on this challenging problem by Michael Lässig, Ville Mustonen and Aleksandra M. Walczak www.phys.ens.psl.eu/~awalczak/PU...

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Important thought from Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social "No system can determine whether it is entangled with its environment." [citation continued in the thread]

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

interesting interview by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social. "memory is a message to our present Self(let) from our past one. We need to constantly re-interpret. We are engaged in story telling and niche construction at all times." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7S...

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Breakthrough Research in "Platonic Space" | Dr. Michael Levin

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 06/02/2025

Federal restrictions & funding freezes threaten vital research and halts scientific progress that benefits all Americans. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce. 👇 #NeuroSky

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H. John Tran @johnhtran.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A cancer breakthrough like never before—scientists find a ‘switch’ to reverse cancer cells. Instead of destroying them, researchers in South Korea reverted cancer cells back to normal. Could this be the future of treatment? “A new approach to cancer therapy,” says Dr. Troso-Sandoval.

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Jemaine Clement @jemaineclement.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

One of Superman's powers that isn't gone into much is how he gets a cape under his shirt without it looking bulky.

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Adam Fleischhacker @adam-fleischhacker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚀 Causality refresher! 🚀 Check out this Shiny app that uses DAGs to show how including (or controlling for) a variable (z) can help or hurt your causal inference for how x -> y. Be sure to block your back door! 🎯

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/01/2025

The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study. The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.

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Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos @handle.invalid · 12/11/2024

We often pathologize grief, anger, and melancholy, viewing them as diseases to be cured. But these emotions are essential parts of the human experience. When we chase after happiness as an endless state, we deny ourselves the richness of life's complexities. (Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos).

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Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here's a fun set of images: despite all the resonances between Confucian and Aristotelian thought, and the fact that Confucius was born about 150 years earlier, trade routes that covered that enormous distance (geographic, but also cultural, linguistic) is thought to have started 100s of years later

timeline with some classical Chinese and Ancient Greek philosophers, contrasted with other major figures and events (assumed birth of Buddha and Jesus, founding of Roman Republic, Great Wall of China, and the Silk Road)

image of the distance covered by the Silk Road, which demonstrates the enormous geographic gulf between Confucius' world and that of Aristotle.

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Metaphorical @0337.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Lynch’s method depended on fragmentation and abstraction. Fragmentation makes it hard to know the context as defined by a reference frame. Abstraction makes it hard to trust our normal causal models. If consciousness is a process of…

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/e... - really looking forward to visiting University of Leeds on Friday to give this talk! If you're in the area, come along! 😊

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I thank taxpayers for supporting my lab's work. My group has helped map how brains transform "seeing" into "remembering". We've been working to transform what we've learned into a new treatment for individuals with memory impairment (by stimulating the vagus nerve). www.nicolecrust.com/memory

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wake @wake.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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Metaphorical @0337.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We are the filter to the patterns we perceive, we see visible light but not UV, for example, but might we also be the source?

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I don't think about the Roman Empire all that often but I do lament how here in the 21st century, we are completely incapable of flooding a stadium and staging a mock naval battle, what are we even fucking doing

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

What is the relationship between causal emergence and learning? New preprint osf.io/preprints/os... where @pigozzife.bsky.social and I study this question in a minimal in silico system. #basalcognition #diverseintelligence More detailed explanation: thoughtforms.life/learning-to-.... 🧪

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Wordpress blog thoughtforms.life. Unlike drmichaellevin.org, here I post speculative ideas, personal thoughts on what our research means, nature photography, essays, interviews, etc. Register to be notified of books' progress, events, and news, access downloadable content, etc.

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Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin

Thoughts on the science and philosophy of embodied minds, and the lives that can be.

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Metaphorical @0337.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“We can speak only of a single time: the time of out experience - uniform, universal, and ordered. This is an approximation of an approximation of an approximation of a description of the world made from our particular perspective as human beings…”

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