Alexander HölkenJan 22, 2025

My commentary on the concepts of underdetermination and causation in Tom #Froese 's Irruption Theory just got published in #AdaptiveBehavior! Very excited to have this paper out, I think #IrruptionTheory is a promising framework for capturing the causal influence of normative mental processes on non-mental systems! In the paper, I suggest some amendments and changes to the theory to allow it to connect to other promising research on this topic from the direction of complex systems theory. #ComplexSystems

https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712324130183

The Carp StreamerJun 4, 2023

Fitness does not equal reality grasping.

Fitness, or adaptive behavior, is a composite of the external plus internal world (the stimuli that come from them) and the processing of those with the goal of survival and reproduction.

#evolution #adaptivebehavior #digitalgarden

PLOS BiologyMay 3, 2023
This study shows that adaptation to rapidly changing environments is suppressed by #fear at the early stage of bottom-up processing of fearful information, explaining how fear interferes with #AdaptiveBehavior in response to dynamic situations #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Vomj3K
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying fear-biased adaptation learning in changing environments

This study shows that adaptation to rapidly changing environments is suppressed by fear at the early stage of bottom-up processing of fearful information, providing a neuro-computational account of how fear interferes with adaptive behavior in response to dynamic situations.

PLOS BiologyMay 2, 2023
This study shows that adaptation to rapidly changing environments is suppressed by #fear at the early stage of bottom-up processing of fearful information, explaining how fear interferes with #AdaptiveBehavior in response to dynamic situations #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Vomj3K
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying fear-biased adaptation learning in changing environments

This study shows that adaptation to rapidly changing environments is suppressed by fear at the early stage of bottom-up processing of fearful information, providing a neuro-computational account of how fear interferes with adaptive behavior in response to dynamic situations.

PLOS BiologyMay 2, 2023
This study shows that adaptation to rapidly changing environments is suppressed by #fear at the early stage of bottom-up processing of fearful information, explaining how fear interferes with #AdaptiveBehavior in response to dynamic situations #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Vomj3K
Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying fear-biased adaptation learning in changing environments

This study shows that adaptation to rapidly changing environments is suppressed by fear at the early stage of bottom-up processing of fearful information, providing a neuro-computational account of how fear interferes with adaptive behavior in response to dynamic situations.