Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That's easy: just ask them and you will know! 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In een tijd waarin de waarheid onder druk staat is betrouwbare, onafhankelijke journalistiek essentieel. Daarom geef ik je graag een gratis maand De Correspondent cadeau. De proefmaand stopt vanzelf. Start jouw gratis maand via: decorrespondent.nl/%E2%80%A6 decorrespondent.nl/cp/gratis-ma...decorrespondent.nl 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I think all metaphors are useful to explain something about the brain, IF accompanied by an explanation which limited "something" (process, function etc) is meant to be explained and which are the shortcomings of the metaphor, ie what it does not explain related to the "something" it does explain. 100
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I hope there is a way! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.com‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babiesThe Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus... 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comHuman embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictionsPitfalls of heritable genome editing undermine theoretical benefits. 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026sorry, already following you. I hope my followers read this so one can be your 4K. Otherwise, how would they know? 001
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The question is whether they fire erratically. I don't think so. Some neuroscientists might be baffled they don't. (I am reading "The Brain, in Theory", see eg: "Drift and Adaptation" Brette, Romain. The Brain, In Theory (p. 122). Kindle Edition. ISBN 978-0-691-28139-1) @dianakwon.bsky.social 020
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Scientists are not excited by answers, they are excited by the next question. 010
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026You are sure you never have allostasis without cognition? 110
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026How constraints work in the brain as causal mechanisms (eg emotions constraining cognition!). Although I hope it will not just be the new trend like the computer/machine metaphor. ("mechanism" may not be the right term) 110
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The same for how the brain works. That is why I am writing a book about it. 111
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Predicting is very difficult, especially of the future.... 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Is this one organism? It acts as such. But it does not have one boundery. 010
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026This will last a couple of days..... and then they know .... 000
Reposted by Peter MolemanGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is. 574274696248
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I wonder whether not all psychoses are secondary (to an underlying diease) 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026www.404media.co/google-micro...404media.coGoogle, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.” 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026It could be a problem if you identify the mind with the brain = physical stuff. The Stanford talks about processes. But what do you mean to be the "brain" if not the physical stuff? 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026decorrespondent.nl/16860/we-dre...decorrespondent.nlWe dreigen een kunstmatige democratie te worden. Zo krijgen we politieke grip op AIOverheden en bedrijven – bang om de boot te missen – zien AI nog vooral als iets handigs en iets wat geld bespaart. Ondertussen transformeert AI de hele samenleving. De politiek moet niet alleen econo... 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026@wiringthebrain.bsky.social Do you know: Stegemann W (2025): The Causal Core as a Structural Principle of Free Will [Internet] DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17057739 Is it complementary to Potter HD, Ellis GFR, Mitchell KJ (2026): Reframing the free will debate: the universe is not deterministic? 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Links to frontiers article don't work @annaciaunica.bsky.social 110
Reposted by Peter MolemanSam Fellowes @samfellowes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026There is a massively polarised debate in relation to over/under-diagnosis in psychiatry. Over/under-diagnosis are both harmful. Also, both could occur simultaneously: loads of people might get diagnoses they should not, whilst simultaneously loads of other people might not get diagnoses who should. 1276
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Thx Paul for a very informative and inspired Brain Inspired. #neuroscience #reductionism (not) #behaviour 010
Reposted by Peter Molemandickretired @dickretired.bsky.social · 20/03/2026There is little work on NHPs now. Instead almost all the work is on mice. I can understand that this can tell us about human metabolism. But cognition depends on complex neural circuitry. We need to know what cognitive capacities we share with mice and what capacities are unique to primates or us. 0255
Reposted by Peter MolemanAlberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment 7133741235
Reposted by Peter MolemanUta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social · 19/03/20261/6 Engaging with critiques of my @TES interview. While I value the lived experience shared, we must distinguish between sociopolitical identity and clinical diagnostic utility. #Autism #Neurodiversity 141
Reposted by Peter MolemanEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealthjamanetwork.comMental Disorders as Homeostatic Property ClustersThis narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems. 315457
Reposted by Peter MolemanMagdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 18/03/2026“AI agents should have no more rights or freedoms than my laptop” “If society surrenders to the illusion of sentient AI, it risks entering a digital hall of mirrors from which it might never fully emerge” writes @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social in our WorldView column 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAI is programmed to hijack human empathy — we must resist thatAs artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings. 13019
Reposted by Peter MolemanPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Reminder to media: Your genome sequence is not your "genetic code". That is not what "genetic code" means. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER! 0347
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026O, and "good luck". I did exactly what I describe. 100
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026So you describe the present practice. It can be changed. The power of the writer is underestimated. 100
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Why don't you both demand to see the titles/headlines before publication and get the right to veto them? Don't say you don't have the power to do that: you can refuse to write the article. @evanthompson.bsky.social 100
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026It is all also in Frank A, Gleiser M, Thompson E (2024): The blind spot: why science cannot ignore human experience. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. Or is it not? 010
Reposted by Peter MolemanPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I guess another question I have is that why, if polygenic screening for complex traits is truly effective, are the screens on offer always for eg "intelligence" and "attractiveness" and never, say, for "empathy" or "compassion"? 4357
Reposted by Peter MolemanPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Ian has a way of getting to the nub. This is basically the kind of thing I wrote to Tim Davie about in 2020, though I had no idea how bad it would get. Most of the media has not the slightest notion how to handle a situation like this, and instead tries desperately to normalize it. 1579
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Or -if more appropriate- be honest and end with "No firm conclusions can be drawn". 010
Reposted by Peter MolemanEvan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Causal regularities may constrain the mapping but don't determine it (because an observer can always establish a different mapping, weird though it might be). 011
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Would an explanation of how constraints work not be essential to help people understand this? 010
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Dor-Ziderman Y, Schweitzer Y, Nave O, Trautwein F-M, Fulder S, Lutz A, et al. (2025): Training the embodied self in its impermanence: meditators evidence neurophysiological markers of death acceptance. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025:niaf002. 000
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The abstract capacity to consciously predict, simulate, and actively prepare for an uncertain future can be argued to be humanity’s primary adaptive strength. However, and perhaps uniquely, it also carries with it the existential certainty of inevitable mortality... 100
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026In the 60s it was normal to have secretaries, paid by your employer, available for all to do these tasks. Has been entirely defunded. That is stupid, because these secretaries were much more efficient in these tasks. 010
Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I thought Einstein was born, not created..... 000