Of course it's trivial to create a machine with superhuman strength or speed but there's a reason it's just shooting a free throw here. If you put this thing in actual competition with multiple agents it will become a glorified mannequin.

Manlio De Domenico@manlius.bsky.social · 6mo ago

While most headlines are about the LLM hype, robotics and embodied AI are running fast. This guy, named CUE7 and built by Toyota, can play basketball better than me and likely than you. youtube.com/shorts/Or323...

Here is the accepted version of my thesis. A huge thanks to my supervisory team and everyone who supported me. A few chapters are already published some are still in review, so this is a sneak peek for anyone interested in the empirical findings. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) An Ecological Dynamics Perspective on Flow in Sport

PDF | This thesis utilises an ecological dynamics perspective to investigate the concept of flow experiences in the domain of sport. The study of flow... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

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1/12 Really proud of this paper! We borrowed tools from biology to ask a simple question: does who you play with actually matter in football? (Spoiler: it does, a lot.) 🧬 🤝 ⚽ Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUusArnpe...

I'm pleased to share a preprint of a chapter I wrote for an upcoming book on embodied cognition. I try to tackle some thorny questions surrounding unit and scale as they relate to symbols and dynamics in cognitive science. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Experience, scale, and co-adaptation

PDF | While the ontological and epistemological issues surrounding the status of the mind and its relation to the body are often considered abstract... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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Madhur poses some excellent questions to predictive processing approaches in cognitive science here. I'd be curious how proponents would respond! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The myth of the Bayesian brain

PDF | The Bayesian brain hypothesis—the idea that neural systems implement or approximate Bayesian inference—has become a dominant framework in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

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Damian has arrived! Also, really enjoyed co-authoring this chapter with this group. Check it out here 👇

Damian Kelty-Stephen@foovian.bsky.social · last yr.

Does ecological psychology ❤️ fractals? Yes? No? Maybe? This chapter reviews decades of flirtation of the former with the latter--and to advocate for committing to the relationship (or for getting on with life separately!) www.researchgate.net/publication/... coauthored w/ @davidfarrokh.bsky.social

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... @jcassidysport.bsky.social thoughts?

Frontiers | The influence of linear and nonlinear pedagogy on motor skill performance: the moderating role of adaptability

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Great new piece from Madhur Mangalam's lab. Some clear reasoning around the concept of optimality with empirical examples to back it up. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The myth of optimality in human movement science

PDF | The concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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A rather puzzling statement from Hubert Ripoll here (perspectives on cognition and action in sport, Araujo, Ripoll, Raab eds.) First of all, what is a "conventional playing system" if not an evolved form of interaction?? Second, if not from repeated interactions where the heck does it come from?

Transfer of calibration between hand and foot: Functional equivalence and fractal fluctuations (Stephen & Hajnal, 2011) link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Question for academics: I often see academics speak about journal-specific readership. I'm curious how common it is for academics to follow journals. Personally, I don't think "hmm let me see what's out in journal x".

it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power

What is cognition? www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/03/what... - some weekend musings on this tricky concept, with lots of help from all you Blueys!

The problem is that cognitive science wants it both ways when it comes to the "hard core" of computation over representation. Strong empirical programs have been scoffed at and quickly dismissed because they didn't explain in these terms (see below) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Searching for General Principles in Cognitive Performance: Reply to Commentators

The commentators expressed concerns regarding the relevance and value of non-computational non-symbolic explanations of cognitive performance. But what counts as an “explanation” depends on the pre-t...

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Micah G. Allen@micahgallen.com · 2y ago

I found this to be an informative and provocative read - what happened to cognitive science? Authors argue, based on bibliometric and scientometric analysis, that cognitive science as a discipline is basically dead. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Question for academic bluesky: A lot of my work is on co-adaptation. Co-adaptive couplings include both competitive and cooperative couplings. I've used De Poel's taxonomy of couplings quite a bit but I'm trying to decide how to refer to the nature www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Anisotropy and Antagonism in the Coupling of Two Oscillators: Concepts and Applications for Between-Person Coordination

Coupled oscillators provide a pertinent model approach to study between-person movement dynamics. While ample literature in this respect has considered the i...

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Some excellent reflections on the different claims made by the FEP. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Is the brain an organ for free energy minimisation? - Philosophical Studies

Two striking claims are advanced on behalf of the free energy principle (FEP) in cognitive science and philosophy: (i) that it identifies a condition of the possibility of existence for self-organisin...

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The open access version of A Drive to Survive is now available to download for free! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... (If you've already read the preprint, I'd really appreciate a download of the official version... for the *metrics*) - also it has way less typos.

A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.Since 2005, Karl Friston's proposal that the principle

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The Dissenter@thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 2y ago

New episode (1054), with Dr. Kathryn Nave (@kathrynnave.bsky.social). We talk about her great book, A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life. #Biology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/DKUAaqb9WnA Podcast: bit.ly/4jElnE1

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I'm very pleased to share the latest work from my PhD. I would like to thank all of my fantastic co-authors as well as the anonymous peer reviewers. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

Cognitive science moved away from the difficult questions without ever answering them. "Unfortunately, difficulties that are not faced do not simply go away" - Benoit Mandelbrot Turvey and Kugler (1984) pinpointing them here👇 #complex

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ...

The second paper from my PhD should be out in acta psychologica in a few days! Also just finished a book chapter on the role of unit and scale in cognitive science.

I get more from this talk every time I listen to it www.youtube.com/live/Xb0sLm5...

The whole field of pan-computationalist AI is typically both boring and frustrating to read. It can be hard not to pre-judge stuff coming out of that vicinity. So this recent paper by Lehman et al was a pleasant surprise! The authors explore some fundamental arxiv.org/abs/2501.13075

Evolution and The Knightian Blindspot of Machine Learning

This paper claims that machine learning (ML) largely overlooks an important facet of general intelligence: robustness to a qualitatively unknown future in an open world. Such robustness relates to Kni...

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Starting a new thread to avoid unwittingly dragging people into my rant. This paper articulates 3 criteria for being an affordance and I think they are wildly wrong. It's high citations give me pause, but I really struggle to see where I'm wrong. academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Explicating Affordances: a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research

Abstract. This study aims to clarify inconsistencies regarding the term affordances by examining how affordances terminology is used in empirical research

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“Psychology... is a second rate discipline. The main reason is that it does not stand in awe of its subject matter. Psychologists have too little respect for psychology.” -J. J. Gibson

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2y ago

“There is no theory crisis in psychological science” Few quotes…🧵

Is embodied cognition just a fondness for dynamical systems theory and a distaste for representations? I often see opinions to this effect so I thought I would add a little historical context. A lot of critical issues were discussed much more clearly and explicitly in the 70s and 80s, imo

One thing I'm starting to recognize with discussions around evidence for ecological approaches in sport is that there are huge differences in how much of a "special science" people see sport as. E.g., how willing are you to consider more general findings about pure.au.dk/ws/portalfil...

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

erika@yeeeerika.bsky.social · 2y ago

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

I've always seen a tension between two poles when "cognition" is defined in neuro/psych/phil: General Pole - Cognition is all things providing knowledge/meaning of the world. Shopping-List Pole - Cognition is reasoning, decision-making, planning... I prefer the first one. They might be compatible.