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Alexander Mugar Klein

@alexandermklein.bsky.social

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Philosophy/history/science of mind. Consciousness. Action. James. Russell. Bikes!

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Public Service Announcement. The person in the middle seat gets both armrests. Aisle and window people—you only get one armrest each. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Consciousness science has a measurement problem. In gray-area cases (bees, worms) we look for consciousness markers like learning or play. But to test which markers really track csness, we'd already need to know which beings are conscious; and that req's already having markers.

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Philosophy of mind that engages research in cognitive psychology is flourishing. But approaching philosophical questions in an empirically-informed way is not a new thing on the intellectual stage. 1/n

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Let's put down that copy of Nature Neuroscience and go back to something falsifiable: William James!

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Nobody describes phenomenology like William James. But his stream of consciousness flowed over a bedrock of empirical fact, from vivisection experiments to clinical observation. Behaviorism abandoned his weave of first and third person data; we're still catching back up today.

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Frogs that survive decapitation are still capable of purposive action. What did William James learn from such cases about the function and evolution of consciousness? Out now: bit.ly/4fpGlU5.

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So flu shots are out, measles are in?

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