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Contextuality in life, mind and society. Formalization & applications of the Active Inference Framework. Naturalizing philosophy. Currently studying Mind & Material culture in a PhD under Andy Clark and Chris Buckley, financed by the XSCAPE project
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Part of the problem with this incessant "low trust" vs "high trust" conversation is that social conservatives are frequently more tightly embedded in communities of trust than people on other parts of the political spectrum, something which is an important source of their power.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Many autistic people put so much additional thought into what we say and do, choose our words carefully and specifically, and give extensive explanations, hoping to avoid any possible misunderstandings and all the potential outcomes that we think could or may occur following a misunderstanding.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

"oh bah Gérard, ça a pas l'air d'aller fort, y'a quoi ? - je me suis cassé la jambe et ça s'est mal ressoudé 🥲 maintenant je boîte et j'ai mal tout le temps - dur. Tu sais ce qu'il te faut pour te remettre d'aplomb ? Une balle dans la tête"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Jonathan Marchand, militant québécois qui a dû mener un combat acharné pour sortir de l'établissement médico-social où il était enfermé et pouvoir mener une vie autonome, alerte sur les dangers des lois de SA/euthanasie et appelle les députés français à voter non. #StopLoiEuthanasie

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

« Définir tuer comme un soin et un droit a des effets extrêmement pervers sur notre relation avec le corps médical. Lors des visites dans les centres hospitaliers, trop souvent vous allez vous faire offrir le soin ultime pour soulager vos souffrances. Quand vous ne l’avez jamais demandé.» 🔗 6 min ↓

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

I don't have the same viscerally negative reaction to this as everyone else and think things like this are going to be commonplace in the future for an uncomfortable but nonetheless valid reason www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

If Thomas Nagel doesn't know what it's like being a bat, how does he know he isn't a bat

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I suggest instead of hectoring each other to try harder we become more aware of the moments when participating gave us more energy, and talk about those and help each other discover them - even if they don't seem to be the most urgent forms of participation.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Language depends on copying (e.g. of words, signs). And language in turn is needed for many other things. When and why did our ancestors gain this ability to copy? Our (Ron, Elisa & me) archaeological reanalysis says: in the last million years. Just out: dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

*stares at the rack of designer babies growing in vats* "Orwellian", I mutter to myself, before I leave for the mandated office orgy

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A huge proponent of this way of thinking. It is to me an absolute, that academia and ideas are at a complete loss without extended periods of mindwandering. Something I have always valued artist friends who were able to retain it, but better than us academics.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The problems of “bad” research are different across fields and I do think “replication” is the wrong lens to think about current issues in social science.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Francesco Innocenti, El Mehdi Achour, Christopher L. Buckley: $\mu$PC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100+ Layer Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13124 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13124 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.13124

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

As well he should

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Groundr, a dating app for metaphysicians

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Les députés ont voté ce samedi pour la création d’un délit d’entrave à l’accès à l’aide à mourir. Il est similaire au délit d’entrave aux interruptions volontaires de grossesse.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment