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Fred Molero-Ramírez

@fredjmr.bsky.social
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Undergoing a biology undergrad. Interested in behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, and behavioral physiology.

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Cathy Legg @greatcathy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Forthcoming shortly, from an excellent 2023 conference @ U Hamburg, org by Prof.s Stephan Schmid and Hamid Taieb, which assembled a panel of experts across different philosophical eras and methods, to jointly interrogate 'the concept of the concept'. A now too rare cross-fertilization, learned heaps
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Catherine Legg, Concepts in Pragmatism - PhilArchive
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. It thereby introduces some unique ideas and approaches to the analysis of concepts. Loo...
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Lorenzo Baravalle @lorebar80.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
In this article, we articulate the mechanistic requirements for being a computing system, based on Piccinini’s account of concrete computation, and critically evaluate whether biological systems satisfy them: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Lorenzo Baravalle @lorebar80.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Here I suggest that a potentially fruitful approach to modelling plant communication (and, indirectly, plant cognition) is provided by automata theory: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How (not) to Talk to a Plant: An Application of Automata Theory to Plant Communication - Acta Biotheoretica
Plants are capable of a range of complex interactions with the environment. Over the last decade, some authors have used this as evidence to argue that plants are cognitive agents. While there is no c...
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Victor Luque @victorluque.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
What's the role of the Price equation within evolutionary theory? Is it a tautology? In our new article we argue that its role is analogous to that of Galilean kinematics in classical mechanics. #evolution #Priceequation #philsci #philbio link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Value of Price - Biological Theory
The Price equation provides a comprehensive representation of evolutionary processes. Since its original formulation by George Price, it has been used to model a variety of phenomena in quantitative g...
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I dream of a future in which single neuron dynamics ➡️ circuit motifs ➡️ distributed computations are taught as part of the same curriculum and no one bats an eye and everyone is happy.
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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...
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Alan Plotzker, MD @alanplotzker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
An annoying percentage of interactions with insurance companies are essentially them saying “according to our criteria, you should do some malpractice instead of appropriate medicine. Have you considered that?”
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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Happy to share my new preprint, entitled “Mapping the Neural Taxonomy of Mental Objects in Moment-to-moment Cognition"! You may have heard about notions like pointers, object files, mental files, etc. across language science, vision science and the philosophy of mind. 1/2
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Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding? Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197
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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Super-psyched to share this preprint from my student Yicong (Alan) Zheng: "Recurrent Inhibitory Dynamics in the Entorhinal Cortex Support Pattern Separation" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... It's a new biologicaly-based computational model of the entorhinal-hippocampal system. Thread (1/?)
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Recurrent Inhibitory Dynamics in the Entorhinal Cortex Support Pattern Separation
The entorhinal cortex (EC) provides the major input to the hippocampus (HPC). Numerous computational models on the EC propose that its grid cells serve as a spatial metric, supporting path integration...
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The Kueh lab @kuehlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I made a starter pack for those of us interested in or working on T cells. Let me know if you would like to be added or know somebody that should be added. Looking forward to scientific discussions and updates on our favorite immune cell type!
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Philipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 16/11/2024
Our symposium on exploratory research is in full swing! Currently speaking: @jolienfrancken.bsky.social on new ways of building cognitive ontologies in neuroscience #PSA24
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Sergio Barberis @sergitus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
once años después del primer intento, y con la ayuda de mis amigos, metimos un paper en synthese philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24180
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The Open Texture of Functions: A Framework for Analyzing Functional Concepts in Molecular Biology - PhilSci-Archive
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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By popular demand, Cognitive Psychology starter pack, part 2! If you are a professional conducting research in cognitive psych: Comment here if you would like to be added. If you are just interested in the topic: Open the starter pack and click "follow all" to join the convo! go.bsky.app/RgVxacV
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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Any theory of consciousness can satisfy at most three of the following but not all four: (1) first-person realism ("there are 1st-person facts"), (2) non-solipsism ("there are other conscious minds"), (3) non-fragmentation ("the world is coherent") and (4) one world ("there is one world, not many").
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A quadrilemma for theories of consciousness
Abstract. In this paper, I argue that no theory of consciousness can simultaneously respect four initially plausible metaphysical claims—namely ‘first-pers
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