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tolchinsky.bsky.social

Clinical psychologist and researcher investigating anxiety disorders, Acute PTSD, dissociations, OCD, Affective Neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis, application of nonlinear dynamical systems to psychology https://montgomerycountypsychologist.com

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If you are a San Diego local or lived there, any suggestions on activities? We got the main touristy ones figured out.

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𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 This target paper by Anil Seth should lead to good discussion. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Happy to report that with Daniel Friedman's help @activeinference.bsky.social - Perplexity AI hallucinates far less in lit reviews, paper search and summaries than Open AI, Gemeni or Claude.

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Locality, observer, scale, measurement - all of these are classical concepts, not quantum ones. Measurement breaks the locality assumption, which is essential in general relativity. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... #quantum #locality #measurement

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Theoretical Neurobiology meting: "Temporal Depth in a Coherent Self and in Depersonalization" This is based on the paper co-authored by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social , Chris Fields, Lancelot Da Costa, Rachael Murphy, Daniel Friedman @activeinference.bsky.social‬, David Pincus, and myself.

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Narrative Fallacy in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry - talk at McGill as a part of Culture and Community Mental Health. Many thanks to Professor Laurence Kirmayer and his colleagues for organizing this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTe7...

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Watched a debate between @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and Eric Weinstein www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7L... Let me comment as a psychologist. Dr. Weinstein appears activated and desperate here. He throws Ad Hominem constantly and escalates to an insult of a colleague on prime time TV.

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This is the highlight of the talk between @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @joscha.bsky.social and Chris Fields. Chris: "Observer" is a classical concept. So is "Action." So is anything that "exists for 1s." minute 37 of the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAD... www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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@joscha.bsky.social in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Chris Fields on invariances. "Invariances are software not hardware." He went on to say they are "compressed concepts, not actual things in the world." Another beautiful thought that needs some unpacking.

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A relationship between identity, the stability of the Self and long-term planning (expanded temporal depth, expanded cognitive light cone). A thought by Chris Fields www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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@joscha.bsky.social "The difference between heat and sound... is that sound is information-preserving. It is a qausi- particle." www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAD... Beautiful thought, but can we pause here? By sound we mean a collection of frequencies that we perceive with our ears and then process

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I enjoyed listening to @joscha.bsky.social in a very interesting conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Chris Fields on error correcting codes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAD... In addition to very rich and complex content, the style of discourse is interesting.

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LLM assistance. Dear colleagues, if you play with LLMs trying to go out there to reputable data sources looking for papers, or giving a summary of one - do you prefer Open AI (o3? o4?) Gemeni, DeepSeek, Claude? I know, I know, I know, I read back to back, but if you play with that assistance?

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I am happy that @nicolecrust.bsky.social ‬ is endorsing non-linear dynamical system and chaos theory in clinical psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience in her new book Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders – And How We Can Change That. By Nicole Rust. Princeton University

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments