patrick craig
@enactivistagent.bsky.social
4e enthusiast navigating altered perceptual state and processual turns. finding refuge in nature, sound and thought. always already >1.
not sure how i missed this monstrous release on #subtextrecordings from @ahossan.bsky.social and Resina – resina.bandcamp.com/music. the interplay of players reflective and purposeful, building realms. rich interferences intermingle with otherworldly cello amidst maelstroms of static
Ego Death, by Aho Ssan & Resina
9 track album
ahossan-resina.bandcamp.com
“AI platforms cannot keep all the benefits of instant answers while pushing the costs onto creators and the wider web.” #-ai #artificial_integrity
The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself | NOEMA
Without a framework of “Artificial Integrity,” AI search platforms risk collapsing the information commons that made the web possible.
noemamag.com
@micahgallen.com shares recent developments in vagal anatomy—the permutational granularity becomes astronomical in spite of subjective experience remaining pretty vanilla www.the-ecg.org/2026/07/29/v... #vagus #emobidiedcognitions #interoception
…’voting for the National Front (read here #OneNation), individuals remain individuals and the opinion they produce is simply the sum of their spontaneous prejudices,’ an act of defiance carried out in the solitude of the polling booth. #hyperpolitics #antonjäger #auspol
From a Marxist perspective, the constant refinement of personal consumption, like the attenuation of civil society, appeared as an imperative of capital itself #antonjäger #hyperpolitics
adjacent posts relating to #hyperpolitics and #reticularactivatingsystem accidentally sharing affective thematics
intense politicisation with neither institutional roots nor ambitions #hyperpolitics
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics
theguardian.com
most excellent exploration of #covid dopaminergic injury at the critical intersection of basal arousal...the reticular activating system
Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · last wk.For those interested in my obsessions and concerns with respect to Cøvid... Here's a link to talk, @andrewewing11.bsky.social and I presented at the Kirby Institute at the invitation of Prof Raina MacIntyre 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 youtu.be/qg15z_88Q48?...
what is strange and simultaneously structurally mundane about #AI is the unfathomable material transformations, resource consumption and environmental/ecological degradation required to build acres of gleaming obsolescence
now I am confused. is Israel/IDF perpetrating crimes or not? this decision points to a massive gap between our justice and political systems. #auspol
Israeli siblings who fear breaking law in Gaza under IDF owed protection by Australia, tribunal finds
Exclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on war
theguardian.com
thought, the realm of concepts has become an increasingly safe place and refuge from the emotional and being with—white noise blanketing small fibre neuropathy and habitual ruminations—a sense of engagement whilst simultaneously vanishing #philsky #angst #embodiedcognitions
I would suggest that what we can see here is a different model of care and community with its own model of dignity expressed via distance rather than proximity…
Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about an emerging love affair with Personal Protective Equipment in certain segments of Jordanian society years after COVID and seemingly only tangentially related to it, asking what it means about people's differing ethical commitments. Let me know what you think!
@anilseth.bsky.social i wonder if a persons propensity towards idealism, specifically in the context of psychedelic ontological shakedowns and reckonings, is correlated with their susceptibility to perceptual/sensory illusions?
fascinating work that teases out the interplay between hypoxia (OSA) and glymphatic dysregulation #osa #glymphatics #sleep
Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 4w agoChronic intermittent hypoxia impairs glymphatic function in male mice through ENT-dependent adenosine dysregulation academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
#PhiMiSci published a new article: "Icons in action" by Wim Pouw argues that iconicity is neither reducible to objective resemblance nor to a purely subjective impression, but arises from a niche-constructed organism-environment system.
Icons in action | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
philosophymindscience.org
PREORDER: 'The Juniper Tree' by Midori Hirano Alternate score to the Björk-starring 1990 film directed by Nietzchka Keene from the Kyoto composer known their post-classical, ambient, and electroacoustic works. www.normanrecords.com/records/2170...
another remarkable essay by the #structural_lens #harmoniousdiscourse describes increasingly obsolete but tangible (a misplaced concreteness) geopolitical cartographies of mid 20C being superseded by more abstract and networked flows of capital, tech, banking etc #geopolitics #graphs #networks
The Cartographic Lag
Why Power Is Reading a Map of a World That No Longer Exists
harmoniousdiscourse.substack.com
“It is a paradox that a closed society like China is conquering the world with open-source AI models while the most open society, America, is producing mostly closed-source proprietary models that are less adaptable for the rest of the world, & far more expensive.” —Nathan Gardels #china #llm #ai
China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power | NOEMA
America’s closed models are falling behind.
noemamag.com
To understand habits in the liberal way just proposed – as tendencies of living creatures to do certain kinds of things under certain, varying conditions – is precisely to abandon the idea that habits are mechanically crude or slavish, #habit #4e #enactivism
New review from our group out in Nature Reviews Psychology: Determinants of individual navigation ability with my excellent co-author: @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social
Nature Reviews Psychology@natrevpsychol.nature.com · 5mo agoDeterminants of individual navigation ability Review by Emre Yavuz & Hugo J. Spiers go.nature.com/4sHHH3A
another delightful release on grey fade by Josh Mason
Kicking A Dark Horse, by Josh Mason
9 track album
j-w-m.bandcamp.com
Video: How Your Brain Beats AI on the Energy of a Light Bulb Earl K. Miller Neuroscience of Democracy Symposium May 19, 2026 MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory youtu.be/uC8QlVgNIac #neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social
How Your Brain Beats AI on the Energy of a Light Bulb - Earl K. Miller
YouTube video by Earl Miller
youtu.be
engineers build small worlds. control, actuate, log. this invariably induces an attitude of misplaced concreteness that bleeds into other domains of life. evading death just becomes another design problem, a hack #die
Farcical: “It’s the perception of the Jewish community feeling constantly that they are being faced with reporting about the Middle East, about Gaza and about Israel in a way that paints Israel constantly in a negative light,” Segal said #auspol #thinskin #gaza #royal_commission_antisemitism
ABC and SBS need ‘oversight’ committee to vet Israel coverage, Jillian Segal tells royal commission
Antisemitism envoy says public broadcasters, which currently have an ombudsman to handle complaints, need an independent oversight committee
theguardian.com
Prime Frequencies explores the sonic qualities of different prime number categories through sinusoidal sound waves. The series is structured into 47 pieces created using a number of algorithmic and aleatoric compositional techniques developed in the programming language ChucK.
Room40 // Lawrence English@room40.bsky.social · 4w agoAnnouncing today from the boss mHz .... deep prime sound logic
meaning seems inescapably contextual – ontogenesis, oscillatory brain dynamics, attentional state plus the usual constellation of 4e considerations – remarkable that we make and share sense at all – sharing bespoke icons in probabilistic sense spaces with initiated minds seems a sensible proposition
conversation around biological autonomy and organismic self-determination: constraint-process dynamics, causation, metabolism, nested architectures, perceptual arcs and cognition, functions, a nod to affect and motivation, play and chess.... #philbio #philsci #autonomy #constraint_closure
Biological Autonomy, with Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio, and discussion with Evan Thompson
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
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