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popper is the only philosopher of science that scientists seem to know anything about, and it’s cringe

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say no to cortico-centrism

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Model is model. Brain is brain. Brain is not model, model is not brain. Thank you, that was my TED talk on epistemological errors in neuroscience.

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my contribution to the 70 year old debate

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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the can of worms is open, and unfortunately the meme is correct

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expectation vs reality

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Big Representation does not want you to see this image

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mother earth 🫒

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fuck most liked tweet what was your most hated tweet. a tweet that ppl bothered u about for DAYS & sent u threats over. i probably have like 30

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Call for a 6 month ban on neuro bros doing philosophy badly until we get this all sorted out

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wow that dumb Karl Popper meme is now my most liked post, you nerds! this one was so much better though:

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say no to cortico-centrism

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Marvin Minksy live react

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my contribution to the debate

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Tomasello has entered the chat

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2 years

Do you like trolleys? I sure hope you like trolleys, do not talk about the elephant in the room!

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11 months

what in the functor is going on here

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West Coast East Coast Cog Sci: Cog Sci:

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predictive coding < vindictive coding. the primary function of neurons is not prediction, it is in fact revenge

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3 years

I got diagnosed as Lakatos intolerant

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unconscious gang gang with a breaking news announcement

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10 years ago a neuroscientist told me my suggestion was dumb and irrelevant, and then 10 years later he is doing that exact same experiment I suggested 🤡 gotta love it 🤣

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topologically speaking, the brain is a n-dimensional pair of pants

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in these times of hype and tunnel vision, we must return to connectionist principles

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dot products all the way down

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Today I defended my dissertation “Interactive Neurorobotics: Brain and Body Coupling During Interactive Multi-Agent Scenarios!” 🥳

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It is conceivable that David Chalmers does not want you to see this image

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Big news! I have accepted a post-doc offer at the Salk Institute to work with @talmop and Tom Albright! I will be working on deep neural networks for pose tracking in flies/mice/rats and humans as well as multi-agent deep reinforcement learning! 🤩

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hmmm how am I going to piss off cog sci Twitter today?

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6 years

@JohnLGC It’s almost as if the government shutdown is more of a threat to national security than not having a wall 🤔🤔🤔

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3 years

had some thoughts during my DJ set tonight

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2 years

My neighbors left their clothes in the dryer for a long time, and I played a fake buzzer noise to remind them, and it worked beautifully. They came running. Pavlovian conditioning, you the real MVP. 😎

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Aw man, does that mean my thermostat isn’t conscious anymore? :(

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Cognitive Scientists are “interdisciplinary” which means that you take the narrow parts of other disciplines that agree with you, and vehemently reject everything else.

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3 years

Finishing grad school during the pandemic be like:

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Our paper "Convergent Cross Sorting for Estimating Dynamic Coupling" is out! We use ranked manifold distances to extend Convergent Cross Mapping to systems w/ weak-to-strong coupling and rapidly shifting dynamics. With applications to the social brain!

Convergent cross sorting for estimating dynamic coupling

Scientific Reports - Convergent cross sorting for estimating dynamic coupling

www.nature.com

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Celebrating the legendary Professor Marta Kutas today for her retirement, a true legend of cognitive electrophysiology, and a generous and warm mentor to many all around the world! Three cheers for the discovery of the N400 ERP component to semantic violation 👏🔥

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the first rule of cognitive science is don’t talk about anything serious

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3 years

I will be teaching sections on cybernetics, Fodor, Gibson, umwelts, joint activity theory, enactive perception, and post-humanism for David Kirsh's Cyborgs class this quarter🤖🔥

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keep calm and remember that your data is best represented as high dimensional pants

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that noise is actually signal, but if you assume it’s noise you get tenure

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2 years

repackaging old ideas and pretending they are new

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Hate to break it to you but Global Workspace Theory is also silly

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meme of the year

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the only consciousness worth discussing with such intensity is class consciousness

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2 years

@christapeterso What in the heteroscedastic fuck is going on here

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4 years

Information was invented by Claude Shannon in 1948 to sell more bits

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3 years

hey it’s me the history major that became a cognitive scientist purely to haunt the field about historicity and context for the rest of my waking days.

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what if I told you rocks predict their environment

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H index went from 1 -> 2. Yeah I’m kind of a big deal now 😎

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in case you forgot

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Our paper "Interactive Neurorobotics: Behavioral and neural dynamics of agent interactions" was published in Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue on Robots and Bionic Systems as Tools to Study Cognition: Theories, Paradigms, and Methodological Issues!

Frontiers | Interactive neurorobotics: Behavioral and neural dynamics of agent interactions

Interactive neurorobotics is a subfield which characterizes brain responses evoked during interaction with a robot, and their relationship with the behaviora...

www.frontiersin.org

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the original transactions of the seventh and eight Macy conferences 🤩

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2 years

Amazing talk today by @bingbrunton at the @salkinstitute ! She talked about embodied intelligence, feedback control, and the lumbosacral organ for head stabilization in birds (and maybe dinosaurs!) Fascinating work!

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How to conduct yourself at a cog sci seminar. First, interrupt the speaker and say “I do not share your intuition.” Then interrupt again and cast doubt on whether this is cognitive science at all. Finally at the end, tell the speaker that their conclusion is obvious and trivial.

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4 years

At 3000 followers I will explain why Chomsky did not (in any way) refute or even pose a problem for Skinner’s Verbal Behavior

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I was recently interviewed by @Megan_Nicolett @WIRED about body horror and the insular cortex! We discussed an HR Giger inspired survival body horror video game @scorn_game and its relationship to embodied cognition and the neuroscience of disgust.

What Creepy Video Game Sounds Do to Your Brain

Horror games like the new 'Dead Space' tap into humans' deepest-seated anxieties.

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Remembering all those times I wasn’t paid on time and struggled on 22k a year at UCSD. Then they doubled the rent for student housing??? Sickening. Solidarity with UC graduate student workers!!! #FairUCNow

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Unbothered. Not a belief, intention or desire to be found, just in my lane, experiencing continuous trajectories: making waves and chillin in a dynamic reservoir.

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3 years

Attending a talk today by Hasok Chang "A Pragmatist Conception of Reality" at CUNY Cog Sci! He is sharing work from his new book "Realism for Realistic People: A Pragmatist Philosophy of Science." So exciting, let's gooooo!

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People act like evolution is efficient and optimal, like bro that script took 200 million years to run tf

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think you’re interdisciplinary? well my neuroscience paper just got cited by a climate and atmospheric science journal 😎 waves are waves I guess?

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3 years

My submission to the “brain is a computer” debate

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4 years

OMG, an angel

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It is false advertising to call LLMs “Transformers” when clearly a more appropriate name is “Decepticons”

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what if mental representations are the friends we made along the way?

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Nick Bostrom walked so that Eliezer Yudkowsky could run. This is what happens when you entertain nonsense.

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submitted my first NIH grant proposal, quite a challenge but it is in! here’s to hoping 🤞

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@mjdramstead *fumes in Feyerabend*

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Meanwhile Bill Bechtel remains the greatest philosopher of science of all time 🏆

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LLMs lying and making shit up is perhaps the most human thing of all

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people using “priors” and “hardwired” synonymously is very unfortunate

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“everything I predicted came true, I am the Oracle!” “sure Gary let’s get you to bed”

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4 years

In today’s episode of sad graduate student meals:

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4 years

Key question of my next dissertation chapter: Which brain areas are recruited when a rat sniffs another rat's bum? How does that compare with a rat sniffing a robot's bum? Stay tuned!

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psychological field theory time awww yisss

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4 years

@bayesianboy Mel is well known in the duelist community as the “multi-armed bandit,” famous for the “Monty Hall style” duel. Of course, frequentist Ben is afraid because he knows he will choose the wrong door🚪

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I find it troubling that the Italian futurists had such a close and supportive relationship with fascism in the 1920s. Suggests to me that we should check whether the Silicon Valley futurists support and provide infrastructure for neo-fascism in the 2020s. Spoilers: they do.

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Me: Many arguments in cognitive science become more interesting when you realize that “in the head” actually means “in the transcendental subject.” Reply guy: can you elaborate on that? Me: No.

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4 reasons you should stop using ChatGPT and use the Necronomicon instead (a thread): 1) the book can act directly in the physical world in humanoid and spirit form 2) doesn’t require an internet connection, the service is completely free (besides swallowing your soul) 1/666

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whenever I read the term “foundation model” used in ML research, my eyes roll to the back of my head and I begin to recite passages of the Necronomicon

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writing my dissertation one taco truck oyster at a time

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Next quarter I'll be teaching COGS 8 Hands-On Computing: an Arduino-based introduction to programming, dynamical systems, and embodied robotics (formerly taught by Ed Hutchins). Looking forward to this years robot dance competition.

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2 years

Paper accepted! Excited to share this one with you, a long time coming 👏

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the first step to being a good cognitive scientist is to ignore culture, context and history. we wouldn’t want to actually figure out anything meaningful, would we?

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Got invited to give a guest lecture for COGS 102a Distributed Cognition. I will be arguing that internal mental representations are an epistemological error, and that there are only external representations 😇

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wow insanely good finds at the bookstore today

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Hegel shows us that representation is not so different than urination. One makes the external internal, the other makes the internal external. Representation is essentially as ‘taking the piss in reverse.’ *Zizek voice*

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@petemandik pumping is when hearts compute over cardiological representations of blood gradients

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On the market for post-docs and industry jobs in computational neuro and deep reinforcement learning 🤖🧠please hit me up with leads or advice!

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let’s goooooo

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petition to eliminate the word belief from the Bayesian vocabulary

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At 2,500 followers I will reveal a new dynamical state space semantics that will replace the entirety of folk psychology

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Fantastic dissertation defense, "Bridging cognition and neurobiology with large-scale cortical dynamics and multimodal brain data" by @_rdgao . Making our cohort proud! <3 Complete with cortical organoids, 1/f, oscillations, LFPs, spikes, excitatory-inhibitory balance and more!

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heard back from reviewers at Scientific Reports about our new nonlinear dynamic coupling measure, accepted with minor revisions!!! very excited to share this with everyone soon :)

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Historica map of cognitive science by Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon ! A wonderful chronological breakdown of theoretical developments! This is awesome. 👏

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basal forebrain would like a word

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Reunited with my baby after 10 years at my parents house 😭 time to shred 🤘

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Me: Deleuze was a scientist. Guy at lunch table: Can you please elaborate? Me: no.

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I am now 31 years old 🫣

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When a rat meets a robot (iRat), they cautiously approach to sniff the robot's backside/front, rear onto the robot and press down as a dominance display, and sometimes jump on and hitch a ride. Do rats perceive the robot's self-propelled motion as a kind of animacy? Stay tuned!

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Day 3 of the Stochastic Thermodynamics Workshop at Sante Fe Institute! Wonderful talk this morning by Nikta Fakhri @FakhriLab about quantifying irreversibility in myosin-actin networks using variable coarse graining to characterize irreversibility at multiple time scales.

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