iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Atanas Stankov

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like many people (though not enough), I regard compatibilism as a hopeless fudge, but it's also moot, because the universe sure doesn't seem to be deterministic 😊 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

386

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 2h

Both Kevin Mitchell, a neurogeneticist, and David Lewis, a 20th century analytic philosopher, have made arguments against soft-determinist free will for categorical (lack of a better word) free will. Both are monists and both come from different causality angles. I don’t understand the position yet.

100

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 13h

Serious question: Would an automated engram event detector of spike train data of spontaneous activity, including large recordings, be useful and/or meaningful? A detector that requires no direct intervention like stimulation or virus tagging. #neuroskyence

001

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This comment section and the down voting shows the disconnect in discourse. www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

reddit.com

From the Professors community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Professors community

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Data centers are proper fucked without infrastructure whose buildout has a natural rate limit that is slower than the current priced in rate of growth. m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8vA...

m.youtube.com

Building Out the Power Grid: Large Power Transformers || Peter Zeihan

YouTube video by Zeihan on Geopolitics

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only thing that matters to understanding the world right now is non-stop counterfactual statements and questions. Addressing the outcomes is nice but the main goal is to make the ATTEMPT of counterfactual reasoning a more sustained conscious habit.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hypothesis: David Marr separating the algorithmic and implementation into separate entities is now an outdated understanding of brain function. #neuroskyence

020

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If David Marr was still around would denounce his three levels of analysis after seeing how AI has progressed? 🧪

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We have to move away from this image of the brain as a machine made of gears, with every gear having an exact purpose that we can attach a label to," No. Distributed systems are necessary but insufficient without locality. @stefanofusi.bsky.social zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/upending-dec...

zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu

Upending Decades of Debate, Scientists Discover Most Neurons are Jacks-of-All-Trades

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even with the advent of brain waves and electrical fields having mainstream acceptance folks still insist consciousness is a controlled hallucination and the brain a prediction machine. “Software brain” is the curse of our age. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yUa9...

m.youtube.com

How Brain Waves and Electric Fields Really Create Consciousness

YouTube video by Anton Petrov

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hot take: If GenZ continuously bringing iced coffees to professional interviews is collapsing whole institutions, the problem is the institutions and their standards.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Judea Pearl’s work was good sci comm to a limited yet size-able crowd. His framework didn’t have the social virality to match his expectations bc, well, the world is too complex. I have waited long enough to have an opinion after being in a lab where “The Book of Why” was bible for a short while.

100

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am afraid this question has naturally brought me back to the statistical structure of spontaneously firing neurons which is good context-wise but annoying bc it is a tautological trap. I’ll bite for the meantime because I have no choice. The dendritic neurophys was a much easier lit search =\

121

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In plant biology they are already recording slow calcium related traveling waves down to μm resolutions. μm traveling waves!! “Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis

Defense-inducing Ca2+ waves in leaf epidermis are stimulus specific.

051

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pyramidal cells can dampen inhibitory input by boosting dendritic spikes. This is intrinsic bottom-up modulation of top-down inputs. Neurons have potential veto power. “Inhibitory Control of Linear and Supralinear Dendritic Excitation in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

100

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hypothesis: Apical dendrites (XOR, anti-coincidental spike timing/co-activatove synapses) are skewed towards inputs from mesoscopic ephapses (LFP based). Basal dendrites (OR/AND, coincidental spike timing/Hebbian) are skewed towards inputs from local ephapses (eAP, LFP-based, ion based).

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hypothesis: Ephapses have phenotypic/genotypic uniqueness given different brain wirings and architectures define how engrams are guard-railed. The way my brain encodes memories is experientially and functionally unique to me at the individual and small group of people level.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Denial of phenomenal consciousness by some neurophysiologists is weird to me. Brains are lItErAlLy wired differently and yet people still insist qualia is epiphenomenal. Is this an instance of “software brain”?

031

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My interval voice question to many people chasing career goals has become: “Where are you going?” because with the information age, globalization, and climate change the world has become more crowded in a feedback loop kind of way. The future IS the past in an ever increasing fashion.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI is just social media via proxy.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ezra Klein is an affective altruist? How deep does the rot go?

000

Reposted by Atanas Stankov

Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I'm posting a video about Neurodigitech LLC which has provided clearly photoshopped neurons to research teams that published these images in Nature, JBC, and more. A year after I uncovered this only one paper has been corrected. It's in Frontiers. youtu.be/4g_1_AWOVpI

youtu.be

Faked Images of Neurons in Major Journals

YouTube video by Sholto David

34928

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And bam there it is. I intuited something in the ballpark since last night and it is was already a WIP by some labs. It means we can get our hands dirty with new insights in neural substrate and causality. “A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

biorxiv.org

120

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dendrites spike too so there is bit of a motif at different scales going on.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hypothesis: Neuronal spikes are a more fundamental instance of memory replays. And if so, replays of what?

001

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lol this is same reason No Child Left Behind legislation got pushed through. Once the incentive becomes the financial driver standardized testing goes to hell. www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/c...

reddit.com

From the Teachers community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Teachers community

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ephapses and spikes are inherent.

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only Platonic truth or natural kind that I believe is universal across all life/xenobiology are spiking neurons. The only way to get finely-timed ephaptic coupling is the derivative of an action potential be it somatic, axonal, or dendritic. Sub-threshold oscillations are sexy but not enough.

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How come no one major has commented on the result that Navier-Stokes IS proven to be negative? That has consequences for symbolic systems and all those claims about Platonic ideals.

110

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

War stats are a grounded way to learn about causal impact. This stat is crazy: “… estimates that for every person directly killed by war, four more die from the indirect consequences of war…” They use didn’t usr excess death stats which could be an access issue. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_...

en.wikipedia.org

War on terror - Wikipedia

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Guys it is 2026, not 2020. We can lose our minds together. It doesn’t have to be in isolation.

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hypothesis: Using instituional tools and standards (e.g. neuro-engineering, computational neuroscience, ethology) alone to operationally study free will and consciousness will fail because it bottlenecks the whole process. It is too clinically detached to notice nuance like scientism bias.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A catalyst to the AI bubble popping in the US would be a Chinese AI company claiming an AI-assisted solution to a major open math question like Navier-Stokes.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The amount of DNC donation texts I am getting is starting to match the amount of robo scam call.

000

Reposted by Atanas Stankov

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The shelf life of this fucking brain-in-a-vat, user-illusion, attention schema shit

151

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I still don’t understand illusionists and their insistence on things like attention schema theory. It is like they tapped out on pinning down on the hard mechanism of the neurosci/neurobio and held onto cog sci. I had the biggest headache in like after forever listening 1.5hrs of this.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If a PI says “spikes is all you need” run as far as possible from that lab when choosing where to PhD rotate or do a post doc. #neuroskyence

020

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oral exams and blue books won’t fix any core issues. Get rid of and reform the higher business model if you want to do a fundamental change that works. 🧪

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The social cost of “not taking sides” is becoming more and more costly than taking a side. Good times because spineless social ladder climbers are enablers of corruption.

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Linear algebra is not intelligence. Clocked bits are not intelligence. Neuromorphic chips are not intelligence.

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine a few of neurons internally running Navier-Stokes counter examples as a counterfactual to figure out a flight pattern for a dragonfly’s escape. Conclusion being what we think is AGI is the daily rumination of a single cell. Eat your heart out Hans Moravec. www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

reddit.com

From the NatureIsFuckingLit community on Reddit: 🔥 Dragonflies can barrel roll to get out of immediate danger.

Explore this post and more from the NatureIsFuckingLit community

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The AI industry is going to break down old incentives and evaluations of work and then it is going to break itself down because those are the things that held it together.

010

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So what happens with Goodhart’s Law after AIs are used for math proof maxxing? That won’t save OpenAI and Anthropic’s lack of profit. Knowledge production rests on consensus and standards. With no consensus there is no value. Mofos think AI can do science experiments.

000

Atanas Stankov @neuronasko.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

See we should award folks, even child prodigies, a practical PhD for amazing works. If not make the path for them an easy one. Reform the mold of the traditional apprenticeship model. www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-o...

upsocl.com

16-year-old Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher that uses sound waves to put out fires in seconds

Optimismo que nos une

000