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Jake Quilty-Dunn

@quiltydunn.bsky.social

"philosopher"

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Mike Caulfield@mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's an inside baseball misinformation studies point I want to make here about enduring five years of the political science and sociology folks saying: "people online don't really believe this stuff, this is all just downstream expression" and what an obvious crock that was.

Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

Benedek Kurdi@benedek.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are the mental contents underlying implicit evaluations accessible to conscious introspection? Prior studies show high predictive accuracy, leading to a growing consensus that people can introspectively access their implicit biases. New paper out in JPSP! 🧵🧵🧵

The tide is turning against a major idea in social psychology: that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that lies beyond conscious awareness. This view is being reconsidered in light of mounting evidence that people can predict their own implicit evaluations with high accuracy. However, there are reasons to question whether such predictive accuracy reflects introspective access. First, prior studies have relied almost exclusively on familiar targets (e.g., racial groups), allowing predictions to be informed by background knowledge (e.g., knowing that a group is stigmatized) rather than introspection. Second, implicit and explicit evaluations have been highly correlated in prior work, enabling accurate predictions simply by assuming that implicit evaluations mirror explicit ones. Here, we report eight experiments (five pre-registered; N = 6,794) designed to minimize these nonintrospective routes to predictive accuracy. We introduced participants to novel targets and shifted implicit and explicit evaluations of these targets in opposite directions, rendering explicit evaluations an unreliable cue. Under these conditions, predictive accuracy ranged from low to nonexistent; participants frequently anticipated shifts in their implicit evaluations in the opposite direction of the actual change. These results generalized across two learning paradigms (impression formation and attribute conditioning), two implicit evaluation measures (Implicit Association Test and evaluative priming task), and between-participant and within-participant designs. We consider multiple interpretations of these findings, including the possibility that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that is largely or even entirely inaccessible to conscious awareness.
Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"My favored use of a polysemous word is better than your favored use of a polysemous word because I like my context better"

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gamete size is the “ultimate defining criterion of biological sex” even though it can disagree with chromosomes, anatomy, mating behavior, or reproductive investment (seahorses), all of which are "biological", and any of which might be more relevant for a question under study. (2/3)

Christopher J Stevens@metaphysiology.bsky.social · 4w ago

Indeed, this most recent Ned Block-based back-and-forth seems a fitting rubber wall for bouncing attention back to @quiltydunn.bsky.social and John Krakauer's recent preprint appealing for cognitive science to put more focus into studying thinking in its common sense understanding of deliberation:

OSF

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Christopher J Stevens@metaphysiology.bsky.social · 4w ago

It all, both sides, still seems as sophistic to me as it did when I veered from philosophy of mind into neuroscience ten years ago. Part of that is bias related to my own research subject, but I fail to see how most/any of this could be useful for understanding real-world (conscious) behaviors.

ceej@ceej.online · 4w ago

being in the DSA is fun because you get to spend most of your time helping people with social anxiety canvass for democratic school board candidates and then go online to see people with blue wave emojis in their bios compare you to pol pot

Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · last mo.

Your dominant hand isn't better because it's "born" that way. It's just had more practice, a new PNAS study finds. The skill gap appears only when you pick up a tool, suggesting handedness is, in part, a fingerprint of human tool-use culture.

Your dominant hand is made, not born

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The long-standing view is that the dominant hand is “born” more capable, its skill...

santafe.edu

preston lennon@jplennon630.bsky.social · last mo.

i argue that there is an *enormous* gap in justification between our first-personal beliefs of consciousness in ourselves and our third-personal, theoretical belief of what consciousness is according to contemporary consciousness science.

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · last mo.

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49

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Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Jake Quilty-Dunn@quiltydunn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new paper, forthcoming in PPR: Visual Icons This paper took me more than 5 years to write. It argues that the visual system constructs imagistic representations ("visual icons") and sketches a theory of how visual icons, and iconic representations generally, are compositionally structured.

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