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Reference frame tourist and causal pattern compressor at intersection of AI, neuroscience, decentralization. On the path. Writing: https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom
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Is evolution predictable? Would the biosphere look the same if we re-played the tape of evolution, as conjectured by SJ Gould? Here's an excellent paper on this challenging problem by Michael Lässig, Ville Mustonen and Aleksandra M. Walczak www.phys.ens.psl.eu/~awalczak/PU...

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Important thought from Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social "No system can determine whether it is entangled with its environment." [citation continued in the thread]

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

interesting interview by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social. "memory is a message to our present Self(let) from our past one. We need to constantly re-interpret. We are engaged in story telling and niche construction at all times." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7S...

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Federal restrictions & funding freezes threaten vital research and halts scientific progress that benefits all Americans. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates in urging Congress to protect congressionally approved funding & ensure uninterrupted support for the scientific workforce. 👇 #NeuroSky

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A cancer breakthrough like never before—scientists find a ‘switch’ to reverse cancer cells. Instead of destroying them, researchers in South Korea reverted cancer cells back to normal. Could this be the future of treatment? “A new approach to cancer therapy,” says Dr. Troso-Sandoval.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

One of Superman's powers that isn't gone into much is how he gets a cape under his shirt without it looking bulky.

submitted 24 days ago • 38 comments

🚀 Causality refresher! 🚀 Check out this Shiny app that uses DAGs to show how including (or controlling for) a variable (z) can help or hurt your causal inference for how x -> y. Be sure to block your back door! 🎯

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The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study. The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

We often pathologize grief, anger, and melancholy, viewing them as diseases to be cured. But these emotions are essential parts of the human experience. When we chase after happiness as an endless state, we deny ourselves the richness of life's complexities. (Miguel Ángel Guerrero Ramos).

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Evidence that oscillatory neural dynamics is functional, not epiphenomenal. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Here's a fun set of images: despite all the resonances between Confucian and Aristotelian thought, and the fact that Confucius was born about 150 years earlier, trade routes that covered that enormous distance (geographic, but also cultural, linguistic) is thought to have started 100s of years later

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Lynch’s method depended on fragmentation and abstraction. Fragmentation makes it hard to know the context as defined by a reference frame. Abstraction makes it hard to trust our normal causal models. If consciousness is a process of…

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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

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Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/e... - really looking forward to visiting University of Leeds on Friday to give this talk! If you're in the area, come along! 😊

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I thank taxpayers for supporting my lab's work. My group has helped map how brains transform "seeing" into "remembering". We've been working to transform what we've learned into a new treatment for individuals with memory impairment (by stimulating the vagus nerve). www.nicolecrust.com/memory

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