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joberv.bsky.social
I’d say something catchy but I’d hate it If you feel caught. Philosophy. Autism. Tourette’s. Ethics. Bohr. Physics. Disability. Language. Writing. And so forth.
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They have read the literature on minority well. They just apply it to the majority.

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January 20th 2025, the day that doomscrolling was shortened to scrolling.

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We had 80 years of economic growth in which to reach 0.7% of GDP spent on helping those we exploited. We didn’t. We have had a single decade to increase military spending to go over the 2% mark to protect our privilege. Yes, we can!

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More justice. Less weapons.

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War is the continuation of an unjust peace by other means.

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Still waiting to be discovered. I appear to be too well hidden.

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Some times are for collective action. Some for collective inaction.

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On the one hand, the world is going to hell. On the other, we have Ana Lua Caiano to listen to.

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Let me try to think of something uplifting to say:

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In a little over 5 years it will be the 30’s again.

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Prefaces of books I probably will never write. Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn Best phrase: "Two brother’s wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked." open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

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Prefaces of books I probably will not write. Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy. Best phrase: “They clearly never met me with my mother”. open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

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The word "reward" has been the least rewarding word in our present culture. Hooked on rewards, we become oblivious to our environment. Reward isn't just reductive, it reduces experience to nought. Luckily @sandervdc.bsky.social & I take reward down. thereisnoreward.substack.com/p/the-reward...

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Truth is the weapon of authoritarianism. The currency of democracy is trust.

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Human beings are just a naturally occurring vortex that maximally dissipates energy of the Sun into heat. We're just overdoing it these last centuries & should chill for a while.

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Maybe the Big Freeze is coming, but let us anyway enjoy our couple of millions of years under this Sun.

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Continental philosophers dismiss French philosophy because it is too scientific, whilst analytic philosophers dismiss French philosophy because is it too scientific.

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We humans are so proud we'd rather extinguish ourselves than give any chance to the climate to extinguish us.

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We have a word for all this: unsustainable. The actions of the West are those of someone who is hooked. In our case, we're addicted to our privilege.

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Damn, the going here is still slow.

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I feel the urgent need to apologize for the generations of my children. We f***ed up and it is simply not enough to say we did our best to avoid decisions that blew up in their youth. It is not enough because their elders failed them and they, still, resist owning up to this failure being ours.

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Hi, I am a bioethics professor at the University of Antwerp. I am interested in #posthuman approaches to #bioethics, #neurodiversity. I am a #duolingo addict. I wrote a book which is freely available at the amazing publisher #OpenBookPublishers. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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I am going to teach an introduction to feminist philosophy to 18 or so high school kids. By the look of me that will be quite a challenge. I can only hope my autism is as strong today as the subject matter I'm teaching is.

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#NeuroEpigenEthics closing conference! Great programme, great people! www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

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When confronted with the situation in the world today, one is living an experience neither/nor under the pressure of having to choose either/or. Even Kierkegaard was a modern as to the inescapability of a binary choice whereas we know (ànd feel!) it is precisely such choice that makes the misery.

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In teaching introductory philosophy courses, what strikes me is that students find the philosophical underpinnings of ideas we take for granted in the West incredibly unfathomable. The opposite happens with ideas that are critical for this modern, Western consensus, whether feminist or postcolonial.

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Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review. With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Achieving unrealistic goals is one thing. Setting new, realistic goals quite another.

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I never was much of a follower. I get nervous when followed. Maybe what I need is anti-socials?

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The only sustainable use of the concept of nation states lies in the organization of inter-nation-al sports competitions. A truly Olympic thought.

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A new theory of evolution: survival of the unfittest. Evolution is to adapt to new environments. The relative unfitness w.r.t. existing environments has to be compensated for by parental love. The more adaptable one is, the more love (trust) will be required. Weakness, then, is its own recompense.

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Today on Twitter somebody said that David Chalmers was the real problem of cognitive science. That maybe was the most sensible cognitive science thing to be said on Twitter today.

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Hi. I'm an autistic philosopher who worked on Tourette's and epigenetics for his PhD, and who has become obsessed with Bohr's concept of complementarity. In psychiatry, this means phenomena are to be both understood and explained. And in psychology that neither enactivism nor PP are, strictly, true.

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People who are fake friendly need sometimes to be met with a bit of unfriendliness. Ma non troppo.

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First post: a paper on Tourette’s, in which we argue that being open to the first person experiences allows to break open the stalemate of the purely pathological view. And, that it puts the environment in focus of creating some Tourettic problems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

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