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Peter Moleman

@molemanpeter.bsky.social
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Brain explorer: I study the brain: breininactie.com/the-brain-in-action. Now writing a book "Our Brain: the body of the mind" R. Feynman: I’m an explorer? I get curious about everything, and I want to investigate all kinds of stuff.

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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's easy: just ask them and you will know!
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is the efficacy similar for you?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In 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...
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Because they can! (evolution)
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I 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.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I hope there is a way! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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‘There is no way to stop this’: ‘Biotech Barbie’ Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies
The 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...
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions
Pitfalls of heritable genome editing undermine theoretical benefits.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
sorry, already following you. I hope my followers read this so one can be your 4K. Otherwise, how would they know?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The 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
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Scientists are not excited by answers, they are excited by the next question.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
You are sure you never have allostasis without cognition?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I prefer: "This is progress"
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
How 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)
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The same for how the brain works. That is why I am writing a book about it.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Predicting is very difficult, especially of the future....
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Is this one organism? It acts as such. But it does not have one boundery.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Kon die Engelse uitspraak nog slechter? :)
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This will last a couple of days..... and then they know ....
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.
Screenshot of a tweet by perrito barista (@Carlitospindola), translated from Spanish, quoting Pope Leo responding to a question about migration by reframing it: "What is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate?" The embedded video shows the Pope holding a microphone aboard what appears to be a plane, with clergy visible behind him.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I wonder whether not all psychoses are secondary (to an underlying diease)
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.404media.co/google-micro...
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Google, 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.”
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Why do you google now that kagi is around?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It 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?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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We dreigen een kunstmatige democratie te worden. Zo krijgen we politieke grip op AI
Overheden 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...
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Tell me tomorrow why you do this!
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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?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Congrats, waiting for tomorrow!
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Links to frontiers article don't work @annaciaunica.bsky.social
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Sam Fellowes @samfellowes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
There 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.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thx Paul for a very informative and inspired Brain Inspired. #neuroscience #reductionism (not) #behaviour
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dickretired @dickretired.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
There 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.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Europe 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
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Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
1/6 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
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey 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 #MentalHealth
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Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters
This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.
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Magdalena 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...
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AI is programmed to hijack human empathy — we must resist that
As artificial intelligence begins to mimic consciousness with uncanny skill, we need design norms and laws that prevent it from being mistaken for sentient beings.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Reminder 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!
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
O, and "good luck". I did exactly what I describe.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
So you describe the present practice. It can be changed. The power of the writer is underestimated.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Why 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
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It 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?
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I 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"?
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Ian 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.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Or -if more appropriate- be honest and end with "No firm conclusions can be drawn".
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Causal regularities may constrain the mapping but don't determine it (because an observer can always establish a different mapping, weird though it might be).
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Why not?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Would an explanation of how constraints work not be essential to help people understand this?
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Dor-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.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The 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...
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In 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.
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Peter Moleman @molemanpeter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I thought Einstein was born, not created.....
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