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Damian Kelty-Stephen

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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Come join us at the North American meeting of the Intl Society for Ecological Psychology, Aug. 5-6, 2027 at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY! sites.google.com/site/foovian...
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Damian G. Kelty-Stephen - NA ISEP 2027 Meeting
August 5-6, 2027 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Makes me feel better about some things of mine languishing in review for only *several months*
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@davidfarrokh.bsky.social and I just published this work on multifractality in sport competition, with the help of his wonderful Sheffield Hallam University colleagues journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I always wondered how we could be sure of this theory...if we are, y'know, hallucinating anyway. It feels like we must play peekaboo with our own capacity for scientific insights if we take this position seriously.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Again, this is where Pattee view can see that the computer and the symbol are running on flows that cost in a physical world where, yes, they are embodied and feeding on their surroundings--but again, just not like us.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And "context" is another etymological doozy, i.e., a "weaving together" that makes an embodiment and embedding much less a detachable issue of plugging into a surrounding
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Yes, I cringe when people say they are NOT embodied. They are, just very differently from us.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh, I didn't think I was saying anything new. I think my only contribution to the big mess is the proposal that multifractal modeling can respect this reverb across multiple scales to show how a pinch here cascades across the other scales. May save us from presuming all is a brain-fueled illusion.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Pattee is especially apt because he acknowledges that constraints (real) are also steady states of continuous flows (also real). So the blink awake and the categorical distinction (between wake and sleep) alike are both frozen applications of more continuous streams of awareness #James #Dewey
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Dream & wakeful experience are only separable in a narrow scientific frame. They overlap in reality and in effect, and whether that's illusory, it's still real construction of experience warranting proper modeling of the overlapped scales #multifractality
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
No. You are very reliable, replicable and trustworthy. And no need for curiosity on my part. I emailed you once upon a time. Happy admirer, happy to buzz in and out of radar. I enjoy expecting variability as well as reproducibility, but it's part&parcel of what you already say more cogently.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I would just like to say: I signed on to Bsky exactly and only to see what you had to say. I had guessed it, but I still appreciated seeing it. Now I'm signing off again. Thank you! (I will be sure to take care of my own scientific moral fortitude in future too, not to pile that on you to support)
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Sometimes the historical context bubbles up in Lao Tse, and it's startling and weird in our context
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Just out: Multifractality of brain tissue predicts the behavioral effect of injected stress hormone
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Multifractal Evidence of Nonlinear Correlations in Golgi/Cox-Stained Slices of Orbitofrontal Cortex Predicts Anxiety Behavior Following Corticosterone Injection
Multifractal geometry has found growing support as the proper framework for mapping, stimulating, and scaffolding growth of neural structures. We predicted that multifractal structure reflecting no...
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Yeah, I'd say the position is fine, but then the "conciliatory" aspect feels disingenuous if it presumes saying "No it's okay, we can need representations if we make them include not representation." I think I would only disagree with the presumed conciliation, which some *do* try to hide behind
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
And to be clear, I can gladly acknowledge that representations happen, which is actually (somehow) more than some anti-rep'lists will concede.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Maybe Tony will surprise me, but I suspect he is as little "conciliatory" as Hutto and I are. So I think there's 2, maybe 3 more than not-anyone, at least
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Perception, Action, and Cognition
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The phrase beginning "in the sense that" sort of takes all the wind out of the representation sails. The things that follow are not representations
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I only see one paragraph here, but I would agree that PAC do not necessarily require computational/representational stuff
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Multifractality of neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex appears to moderate the effect of corticosterone injection on anxiety-related behaviors. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Multifractal evidence of nonlinear correlations in Golgi/Cox-stained slices of orbitofrontal cortex predicts anxiety behavior following corticosterone injection
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
"Accidents nearly happening but not". Sounds like the stuff of possibility on which the whole world runs.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Limiting exposure is itself a concern at another scale, e.g., of staying in business and keeping the *sign* up on the storefront
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Eh, just reluctant to give one scale or another some privilege or precedence when events at one seem to need events at another for the left over determining
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Whether it begins there at smaller scales or not, it is there. Take a look at entanglement, it doesn't stay on small scales anyway. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deterministic multi-phonon entanglement between two mechanical resonators on separate substrates - Nature Communications
Recent advancements have enabled quantum control and measurement of mechanical resonators. Here the authors demonstrate quantum entanglement between two mechanical resonators on separate substrates by...
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I am very redundant. Very. It does not make for flashy social media, but it does make for some consistency of scholarship. Three cheers for developing programmatic research. Three cheers every day, until I retire.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Blah, typo: Yes, needing that capacity for (modeling) not necessarily discrete heterogeneity is what led me to (and keeps me with ) multifractality
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Yes, needing that capacity to (model) the not necessarily discrete heterogeneity is what led me to (and keeps me with ) multifractality
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
And some of the reasons for molecules becoming messages...are other messages that organisms send to each other. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"Can" really is an operative term for Pattee. Lawfulness is about possibility for him. Constraints press the laws into actual facts of what happens.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Computers operate on symbols/signs till the cows come home. But they only do that because the computer runs on dynamical flows from plugging into the electrical wall socket. And symbols exchanged with the electrical company are what make those flows keep coming
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
His terminology is that signs (or symbols) are constraints on dynamical flows. Constraints pinch flows. But at the same time and maybe just at other scales, dynamical flows build the constraints.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yes, distances within distances. Embodiments within coarser(-scale) embodiments. Signs are hubs of flows, and yes, I would imagine that the sign-use hubs pinch (or are pinchings of) different flows than sign-creation hubs do (or doings of). Not me here, but Pattee.
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yes, Virginia, nonlinearity *can* sometimes reduce multifractality
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(PDF) Constrained interactions and sublinear multifractality in multiscale systems
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We may read single words with much more of our bodies than just our eyes, ears, and brains. Or at least so says my homage to Michael Turvey in the special issue in his honor at Ecological Psychology. Thanks to invaluable support from coauthors Madhur Mangalam, Melen Guillaume, & Cedrick Bonnet
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(PDF) Whole-body Multifractal Synergies Support Cognitive Visual Word Search
PDF | Michael T. Turvey viewed perceptual facility with words as a nonlinear prestress of whole-body synergies, forming a multifractal tensegrity rather... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Had a fun time talking with Jack Roycroft on his podcast m.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Fm...
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Why Cognition Doesn't Require a Brain - Damian Kelty-Stephen
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
One of the problems with limiting affordances to particular scale!@davidfarrokh.bsky.social
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Dio D. Vicen @diovicen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I'm happy & sad. Happy part: the word "ecological" becomes usual in neuroscience. Sad part: "affordances", yes, but the aim is to find how they are encoded in the brain. Some eco. psychs. in the project would've made it radical but perhaps more interesting? Something like: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
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The motifs of radical embodied neuroscience
The notion of motif is proposed to enrich the philosophical toolkit of cognitive neuroscience. Motifs are highly unconstrained, open-ended concepts that support equally open-ended families of explana...
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David Farrokh @davidfarrokh.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I'm pleased to share a preprint of a chapter I wrote for an upcoming book on embodied cognition. I try to tackle some thorny questions surrounding unit and scale as they relate to symbols and dynamics in cognitive science. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Experience, scale, and co-adaptation
PDF | While the ontological and epistemological issues surrounding the status of the mind and its relation to the body are often considered abstract... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
**bopping quietly in the background to those groovy gong sounds**
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Damian Kelty-Stephen @foovian.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social
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(PDF) Multiscale dynamics might be essential to ecological psychology: Promises, challenges, and real possibilities
PDF | Ecological psychology emphasizes the nesting of organisms within contexts to explain perception and action, contrasting with non-ecological... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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