What an amazing thread. Great explanations for this:
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RT @tomaspueyo
India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why?

Because of the biggest accident in history

Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?
https://twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1622753371663867905

HIPPOCAMPAL HISTORY TOUR

#HippocampusGurus #hippocampusHistory #hippocampusGurus

The well has run dry. I am awaiting further promised reminiscences, and I can promise a very short publication lag.

Perhaps now would be a reasonable time to raise questions brought up by the personal histories published so far.

But, to contribute something historical today - I'm sometimes asked: why did you and O'Keefe write a book about your theory, since that's a pretty unusual choice for scientists, at least back it was back then. Our initial plan was to write a Psychological Review article, which is what one did with theoretical contributions in those days. But I ruled that out by unknowingly insulting the Editor of Psych Review at a sherry party in Elizabeth Warrington's office off Queen Sq. one evening in the early 1970s. I knowingly insulted a pompous speaker, but I didn't know he was the Psych Review Editor. A fact John O'Keefe conveyed to me shortly after we left the party. What started as a 50 page article aimed at Psych Review became a 350 page hand-typed draft that we circulated for comments to about 30 leaders in the field, including philosophers, psychologists and brain researchers. It took nearly 6 years to revise and publish the final version.

Question for cognition and philosophy folks:

How do you understand the difference between Bayesian, connectionist/emergentist, & symbolic (e.g. Fodor/RTM) approaches to cognition regarding whether they are (a) competing frameworks/theories, (b) incommensurable paradigms that cannot be compared, or (c) different perspectives that could be integrated? Or something else?

Any comments welcome 🙂 Would be interested to hear folks' reasons.

@cognition @cogsci @psychology @neuroscience @philosophy

Fellow faculty, when you were negotiating your first start-up package, did one of your official advisors (e.g., graduate or postdoc mentor) help you in the process?

Please boost to increase my sample size.