The serotonin chemical imbalance theories are very pervasive pseudoscientific ideas that even academics appeal to. > Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last yr.

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

The Organism-Environment Pairing will be published in exactly two weeks by @mitpress.bsky.social ! I am so excited to share it with everyone! If you spot copies in the wild, please do let me know, as I would love to see them! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #philsky #HPS #evosky #boosky #histsci 🌱🐋

What fuckin dogshit vibes did they use the code this app? This shit is borked

Call for Papers: "Technologies of Making and Knowing" Hosted jointly at Getty, LACMA, and UCLA Los Angeles, California, March 4 - 6, 2027 www.historiansofislamicart.org/events-and-s...

Technologies of Making and Knowing - HIAA

Beyond its modern conceptualization, technology has always informed artistic production...

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The problem with cognitive science, and some other so-called "special sciences" as well, is to start off with a particular ontology/metaphysics of "mind" where everyone can disagree. Instead, metaphysics of mind should be post-empirical, not pre-empirical.

Yunus Şahin@herrbokologist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sciences used to begin their lives with some sort of theory that would separate them from "everyday understanding of things", i.e. something different from folk-theory. That would be the starting point to separate them from armchair philosophy, among other factors. +

The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being

The Dialectics of Multi-Level Selection in Evolutionary Biology - Dialectical Systems

Introduction Dialectical thinking in biology has famously been put forward by the eponymous book of Levins and Lewontin (1985). Much of the book was dedicated to the interpenetration between organisms...

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Fodor's entire criticism boils down to the claim that "there is something called mind and it is representational other things are not so, so genes cannot 'code' anything, natural selection cannot 'select' anything etc." I agree on the last two points, but I disagree on the first two assumtions.

Yunus Şahin@herrbokologist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I've been reading this. I wasn't expecting Fodor to be a pro evo-devo / EES person as he is renowned for his naive nativism.

Sciences used to begin their lives with some sort of theory that would separate them from "everyday understanding of things", i.e. something different from folk-theory. That would be the starting point to separate them from armchair philosophy, among other factors. +

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 4mo ago

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

One hour interview about my new book Intertwined Creatures. Watch at your own risk. (The main risk is hearing me say dumb shit.) youtu.be/j8rHowYx3HA

Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero

YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast

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If only someone could have warned them

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4mo ago

Some recent grads have developed an AI habit so debilitating that their bosses wonder how they’d function without it.

I've been reading this. I wasn't expecting Fodor to be a pro evo-devo / EES person as he is renowned for his naive nativism.

For my second master's here at Tartu Semiotics, probably I'll be working on either paramecium or c. elegans. Sounds interesting.

I do want to use BluSky. But I can't. For some reason, even though the content I see here is pretty interesting, the interface, the platform itself, the layout etc. are boring, too boring.

You are all invited!

CogIST@cogist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On January 27, we commemorate James J. Gibson. In this talk, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social revisits this familiar accusation and asks a deeper question: is ecological psychology really a behaviorist revival, or does it offer a fundamentally different and novel way of understanding cognition?

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Ecological Psychology and the Behaviorist Boogeyman - Miguel Segundo-Ortin (PhD) | In Memoriam: James J. Gibson #2 - CogIST

James J. Gibson was born on January 27, 1904 and made groundbreaking contributions to psychology during his 75-year life. Primarily working in perception and ecological psychology, Gibson revolutioniz...

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What were, in your opinion, the most interesting and prominent papers published in the fields of cognitive science in 2025?

We have translated "No one knows what attention is" paper. It's such a good paper that changes how one looks at cognitive science in general. A must-read!

CogIST@cogist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Bilişsel bilimde dikkat kavramı temelden yanlış mı anlaşıldı? | Yaren Saygılı çevirdi, Yunus Şahin düzenledi. Keyifli okumalar... cog-ist.com/blog_content...

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.

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Neisser also hung out with the Gibson’s at Cornell, got really intrigued on the ecological approach, and freaked out the information processing people by writing Cognition & Reality. Good interview with him on all this here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interview with Ulric Neisser

Published in Ecological Psychology (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2013)

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Evan R. Hughes, Ph.D@evanhughesphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ulric Neisser, b. 12/8/1928, an experimental Ψ and a founder of Cognitive Psychology. #Neisser earned his Ph.D. @harvard.edu in 1956. Rejecting Behavorism, his Rx examined the mental processes behind perception, memory, and behavior leading to a massive paradigm shift in the field of #psychology.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

Similar to its precursor (smart cities), the real money in these speculative projects lies not in any eventual product but in the ecosystem of summits, workshops, and gatherings that circulate the idea and monetize the fiction itself under the pretense of design or planning.

Andrew Leyshon@andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism. www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

We’re excited to host @mljanderson.bsky.social in our next CogIST Cognitive Webinar. For more information and registration the link is the down below in the replies! 👇

Through the Cognitive Webinar series, CogIST continues to connect researchers, students, and scholars from around the world. For more information and registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...

Replacing Functional Localization with Psycho-Neural-Behavioral Constraint – Michael Anderson (PhD) – Cognitive Webinar #20 - CogIST

We are pleased to announce the next Cognitive Webinar, featuring Michael Anderson (PhD) from Western University, whose work sits at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and ...

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I’m happy to share that my book chapter, titled “Artificial General Intelligence: What It Is, What It Is Not, What It Could Be, Is It Possible?”, has just been published in the new volume Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence by Doruk Publishing. 1/2

Join us at our first Cognitive Webinar of the year! Tomorrow we will listen to Sophie Slaats (PhD) from the Université de Genève and we'll talk about language and brain! Registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...

From Sentences to Words, and Back Again: Statistical and Structural Relations in the Neural Signal – Sophie Slaats (PhD) – Cognitive Webinar #19  - CogIST

In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host Sophie Slaats, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève. In her talk, titled “From Sentences to Words, and Back Again: ...

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CogIST@cogist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host @sophieslaats.bsky.social , a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève. Registration link is below 👇 #cogist #cognitivewebinar

Beynimizde dil nasıl çalışıyor? Dilin nörobilimini Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Melis Çetinçelik hocamızdan dinliyoruz. Kayıtlar sürüyor, seni de bekliyoruz! Kayıt ve bilgi için: cog-ist.com/duyuru/dilin...

CogIST@cogist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nasıl dil konuşuyoruz? Nasıl dil öğreniyoruz? Beynimizde neler oluyor? Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Dr. Melis Çetinçelik'ten dinliyoruz! Kayıt linki yorumlarda 👇

Join us on November 17 for an insightful talk by Dr. Jedediah Allen on how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory continues to shape our understanding of the human mind. More info and registration link is below 👇