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Peter Moleman Dec 12, 2022

My blog "Seeing with your mind's eye" https://breininactie.com/minds-eye/ #neuroscience #aphantasia

Seeing with your mind's eye: not for everyone - Brein in Action

I search for my misplaced iPhone inside my head, looking with my mind's eye. How does my brain do that? And what is aphantasia?

Brein in Action

Peter Moleman Dec 12, 2022

CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology Dec 12, 2022

#Neuroscience folk designing behavior experiments & wishing to boost their conceptual grasp of the embodied/embedded mind should read #Dewey:

"While the optical apparatus may be isolated in anatomical dissection, it never /functions/ in isolation. [...] The habitual properties of lines cannot be got rid of even in an experiment that endeavors to isolate the experience of lines from everything else." (1934)

Insight transposable to countless other cases.

#philosophy
@neuro @cogsci @philosophy

Peter Moleman Dec 11, 2022

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LisaAnn Dec 11, 2022

@rachelwilliams

As they often do laymen confuse scientists' models of how the natural world works with how the natural world works, not helped by the fact scientists often make the same mistake.

Models are NOT reality just close approximations that are widely inaccurate where it matters.

#philosophy #cognition #neuroscience

Peter Moleman Dec 10, 2022

Yohan John 🤖🧠Dec 10, 2022

Not a fan of using "Bayesian" as a shorthand for "the concept of top-down expectation", but I fear this ship has sailed. 😅

Peter Moleman Dec 10, 2022

"... memories remain malleable, not by repeated reinstantiations [...] but instead via dynamic routes of proactive and non-linear consolidation: memories change, their trajectory is flexible and reversible, and their physical basis develops continuously according to anticipated demands."
Roüast NM, Schönauer M (2022): Continuously changing memories: a framework for proactive and non-linear consolidation. Trends in Neurosciences DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2022.10.013.

Peter Moleman Dec 10, 2022

Nathan Hamiel

Dec 10, 2022

#ChatGPT has created a new wave of amateur futurists who've made some bold and nonsensical predictions based on nothing more than their being surprised at the output. When you show people where it fails spectacularly, they seem to shrug it off as though a couple more tweaks and everything will be fine. The cost of failure is low for the ChatGPT demo but in the real world, these failures can have devastating consequences. Another great article by @garymarcus raising the alarm. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ais-jurassic-park-moment

AI's Jurassic Park moment

New systems like chatGPT are enormously entertaining, and even mind-boggling, but also unreliable, and potentially dangerous.

The Road to AI We Can Trust

Peter Moleman Dec 9, 2022

Emergent phenomena according to @DrYohanJohn: They are *allowed* by the mechanisms, but not explicitly predicted.

Peter Moleman Dec 9, 2022

And what I also forget a lot on #mastodon: add #hashtags to my toots. Please #boost this #toot. #fedi.tips

Peter Moleman Dec 9, 2022

"These aspects (insights about the nature of reality) of meditation have been largely washed out of modern science perhaps for easier integration within a secular vision of mind, body, and brain. Yet, from the perspective of predictive processing, these facets of meditation suddenly become less mysterious and instead—we propose—the logical consequence of being truly “at one” with the present moment."
Laukkonen & Slagter (2021): Neurosc. & Biobehav. Reviews 128:199–217. #neuroscience #meditation

Peter Moleman Dec 9, 2022

What I forget a lot on mastodon: boosting everything I would like to be spread. Please boost!