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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

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Are there degrees of consciousness? Is a human more conscious than an octopus?

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Scott McFarnell

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2 months

Is consciousness dependent on memory? Can you have consciousness without access to memories?

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Scott McFarnell

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Which is the most promising theory of consciousness? a) Integrated Information (Tononi, Koch) b) Global Workspace (Baars, Dehaene) c) Higher Order (Lau, Fleming, Brown, LeDoux) d) Attention Schema (Graziano) e) Quantum (Hameroff) f) Local Recurrency (Lamme) g) Other (what?)

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Scott McFarnell

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FREE staff training on #SEMH Strategies - 8 videos on: #AttachmentTheory #EmotionalLiteracy #EmotionalRegulation #Anxiety #DeEscalation #RestorativeApproaches #ADHD #SchoolTransition Please RT.😀 Many thanks. #EduTwitter , #SEN , #SEND , #Inclusion .

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Are we the universe experiencing itself?

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@DrGBuckingham For me, I wouldn’t say the image appears changed for ever. I can see the circles, but then the squares strongly reassert themselves. Wow, now I’m implying shapes have agency.😂

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What do you think matter is made of? a) Quarks & electrons b) Quantum fields c) Strings d) Loops e) Energy f) Information g) Consciousness h) Other (what?)

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“Disorder is simply the order we are not looking for.” Henri Bergson

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“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.” Norbert Wiener

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Scott McFarnell

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Why is there something rather than nothing?

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Scott McFarnell

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Is information physical?

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Scott McFarnell

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@ThatEricAlper The music is so upbeat, but ‘99 Red Balloons’ was actually about a nuclear apocalypse: ‘99 dreams I have had In every one, a red balloon It's all over & I'm standin' pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here’

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Scott McFarnell

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@SophyRidgeSky Why don’t all public sector workers get pay increases at the same rate as MPs? All rely on taxpayers. The argument for MP pay increases should be the same for all public sector workers.

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Scott McFarnell

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4 years

Amazing selection of free resources from #CAMHS here. 58 high quality booklets from #anxiety to #autism , #PDA to #resilience , #CBT to #OCD and many more.

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Scott McFarnell

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3 years

What a quote. Certainly makes you think. From bullying in playgrounds (obedience of collaborators/bystanders to the bully) to the obedience of weaker countries to stronger ones.

Ethics in Bricks

@EthicsInBricks

3 years

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn

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I told my students that photons don’t experience time. The students then said, well, they are ‘born’ from nuclear fusion in the sun, then ‘die’ after being absorbed by photoreceptors in your retina. That doesn’t sound like timelessness, it sounds like changes and therefore time.

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They always wanted to be Guns N’ Roses, but the Manic Street Preachers surpassed their heroes with this incredible version of Motorcycle Emptiness at Glastonbury. James Dean Bradfield’s guitar playing & singing are fantastic. Clip from the BBC.

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Scott McFarnell

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2 years

@ThatEricAlper ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ by Robert Tressell.

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Scott McFarnell

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Differences in connections in the toddler brain versus the adult brain are like countryside back roads compared to superhighways. Brilliant analogy from @AlisonGopnik & @heather_berlin . Is there a ‘sweet spot’ of connectivity between the ages of 20-30?

Alison Gopnik

@AlisonGopnik

1 year

Very pleased to be part of this fascinating NOVA about perception and consciousness

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Scott McFarnell

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This is good: “Crick & Koch wrote that ‘one of the functions of consciousness is to present the results of various underlying computations.’ With a glint in his beady philosophical eye, Dennett swooped: ‘present the result,’ he repeated, ‘but to whom? The Queen?’” @matthewcobb

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Scott McFarnell

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Why hasn’t anyone done a full length documentary or biopic on the life of Alan Watts?

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Scott McFarnell

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3 years

To what degree is Panksepp’s idea of the brain still accurate? @Mark_Solms @anilkseth @LFeldmanBarrett @davideagleman @theamygdaloid @StanDehaene @baroness_susan @BernardJBaars

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Scott McFarnell

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James Foster

@JamesEFoster

3 years

Marr: How can you know that I'm self-sensoring? Chomsky: I'm sure you believe everything you are saying, but… if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting! #Marr

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Scott McFarnell

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Hard to argue with this advice from @BeaconHouseTeam :

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Scott McFarnell

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It’s rare to find a video that explains #DevelopmentalTrauma quite as clearly as this. Certainly repays the 11minute investment to watch it. For educators, it’s about building relationships with pupils AND their parents/carers. @BeaconHouseTeam

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Scott McFarnell

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@thosethatcan ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ by Robert Tressell. Written before 1907, but it could have been this morning. Painters and decorators in Hastings come face to face with the politics of now (Europe, Unions, Media, etc). Still fresh & readable - I think about it a lot.

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Scott McFarnell

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So impressed with the resources from @BeaconHouseTeam . This one is about pupils with #attachment difficulties:

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Scott McFarnell

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@commaficionado Great thread. The more autistic role models, the better. For young people, seeing a diverse range of autistic people succeed in a variety of fields, despite challenges, is empowering. Are there any inroads into politics which, by its nature, rewards quick social predictions?

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Scott McFarnell

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5 months

This interpretation of consciousness as a way of dealing with uncertainty makes so much sense.

Tsarathustra

@tsarnick

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Mark Solms: feelings are a way for agents to prioritize needs and evaluate their progress in meeting them

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Scott McFarnell

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If energy cannot be created or destroyed, where was it before the Big Bang, and where will it be after the Heat Death of the universe?

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Scott McFarnell

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@ThatEricAlper Trainspotting

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��All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience is for it.” Samuel Johnson

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Scott McFarnell

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I’m 50 today. This is a younger version. My pink coat was a debatable fashion choice.

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Scott McFarnell

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2 years

Phil Lynott, Robert Plant & Eric Clapton waiting for the bus.

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Scott McFarnell

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@MichaelRosenYes “Kobayashi Maru”. It symbolises a seemingly un-winnable situation that can be won with reprogramming. As per James T Kirk in my favourite Star Trek movie: ‘The Wrath of Khan’.

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Scott McFarnell

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Some say you can’t upload or create a mind on a computer, because if you simulate rain, you don’t get wet. But if you simulate a chess game, it IS a chess game. So, is a mind more like a chess game or more like rain?

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Scott McFarnell

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“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” George Box

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Scott McFarnell

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@davidcinema OK, I’m cheating - it’s a music video, not a movie. But it’s my favourite dance scene.

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Scott McFarnell

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“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” Emerson M. Pugh

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Scott McFarnell

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“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” Alan Watts

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Scott McFarnell

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1 year

@NEUnion @GillianKeegan Why don’t they use the same independent review body as they use to decide MPs’ salaries? It’s all public money.

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

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Like a computer game. Does it have agency or consciousness?

microscopic images.

@microscopicture

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macrophage white blood cell eliminating pathogens

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Scott McFarnell

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2 years

It all looks fascinating. Any recommendations for online or offline courses, books, podcasts or videos on these topics?

Hiroki Sayama

@HirokiSayama

2 years

#ComplexSystems folks: After more than a decade, I am planning to update this diagram. What kind of keywords, concepts, topics, and/or research areas should be added? Let me know

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Scott McFarnell

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Which Twitter psychologists have had the biggest impact on your work? My top five are: @sbkaufman @BDPerry @DrDanSiegel @LFeldmanBarrett @amyjccuddy

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Scott McFarnell

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Is mathematics invented or discovered?

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Scott McFarnell

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@goodreads These👇

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Scott McFarnell

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‘Living organisms avoid entropy, by engaging in self-organization with the goal of maintaining their internal states within optimal limits for survival. The continuous process of minimizing free energy allows biological systems to avoid increase of entropy, dissipation & decay.’

Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social

@AnnaCiaunica

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Is cognition all in the head (neurons)? Here we suggest that cognition is a complex multiscale information processing distributed across every single cell in the body 😎 We focus on the immune / neuro tandem ⁦ @drmichaellevin ⁩ E. Shmeleva

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@ThatEricAlper I really liked ‘One Of Us’ by Joan Osborne.

MAkif 📚🤓🖥️☮️ 🇪🇺🇹🇷

@ma_ozdemir

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What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Tryin’ to make his way home? Joan Osborne'un müzik kariyerinin zirvesi, küresel meşhur, milyarlarca kez dinlenmiş "One of Us"ını (1995) mutlaka hatırladınız. Radyolarımız hala çalar, severek dinleriz

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“So I’m guessing we’re in the placebo group.”

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1 year

@BrianRoemmele ‘On Fame’ John Keats ‘Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees, But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy, And dotes the more upon a heart at ease.’

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Scott McFarnell

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2 years

Haven’t really painted since I was at school. Had a try today and it was fun.

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Scott McFarnell

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1 year

This new paper questions the validity of Benjamin Libet’s famous experiments on free will.

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Scott McFarnell

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Is ‘now’ just a memory?

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Scott McFarnell

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3 years

My ridiculous pile of books to read (for fun!). Where to start?

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

4 years

@deputygrocott Good morning, everyone 😀. I’m a #SpecialistTeacher for #SEMH in Kent. Just posted a new 10min video on #Resilience : 5 Strategies for Teachers & Support Staff. Includes references to @harvardcenter , @brigiddaniel & many others. Happy #FFBWednesday .

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

10 months

What do you think? Is there: a) Free Will in a deterministic universe? b) No Free Will in a deterministic universe? c) Free Will in a nondeterministic universe? d) No Free Will in a nondeterministic universe? e) Other - if so, what?

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@SMcfarnell

1 year

Good description of ChatGPT. It’s not an answer machine, but a ‘sounds like an answer’ machine.

Andrew Kadel @[email protected]

@FrKadel

1 year

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

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The relationship between prediction, perception, observation & action. According to Karl Friston, Thomas Parr & @GiovanniPezzulo ’s ‘Active Inference’, our models of the world are all about reducing discrepancies between beliefs & observations.

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Is attention the same as consciousness?

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

4 years

This year’s school transition is going to be particularly challenging, especially for pupils with #SEN . For teachers, one of the most helpful resources I’ve seen is from @mentalhealth . Includes comprehensive plans/strategies/checklists.

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Scott McFarnell

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@ThatEricAlper ‘I never thought that it would happen With me and a girl from Clapham’

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Scott McFarnell

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4 years

Just finished reading ‘The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog’ by @BDPerry & @maiasz . A masterpiece. ‘The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma & thrive. Relationships are agents of change & the most powerful therapy is human love.’

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Scott McFarnell

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3 years

This is philosophical gold. ‘This House Believes Free Will Does Not Exist.’ @HanCritchlow @danieldennett @anilkseth @philipcball @CosmicSkeptic Galen Strawson & Simon Blackburn at @cambridgeunion . Never have I seen such an eminent debating lineup.

This House Believes Free Will Does Not Exist | Cambridge Union

Debate's Results: Ayes: 116 | Noes: 109| Abstentions: 100SUBSCRIBE for more speakers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClOuePXlJnw8-br7SXiuHqg?view_as=subscr...

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Scott McFarnell

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@DavidDidau I was once at a school where they only ever observed me in the morning for some reason. ‘Look at Mr McFarnell,’ they’d say. ‘He’s got it under control.’ Same class, same teacher, same subject, but last lesson of the day was a slightly different experience.

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Superb! @sbkaufman & Robert Sapolsky discuss the political, educational & judicial implications of zero free will. Scott thinks there might be a smidgen (eg. someone deliberately deciding to make a long-term change). Robert says definitely not. All educators should watch this.

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@sbkaufman

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Here's the full episode of my sparring session with the biologist Robert Sapolsky about free will. This was one of the most intellectually stimulating episodes ever of the podcast with someone who I deeply respect.😊 Enjoy! @psychpodcast

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Scott McFarnell

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3 years

‘Being You’ by @anilkseth is a very thought-provoking book on consciousness. It would be great to see a discussion with @lexfridman , particularly as the last chapter mentions the ‘Garland test’, the Singularity, @OpenAI ’s GPT-3, GANNs & deepfake technologies.

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Scott McFarnell

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4 years

This comprehensive resource on Emotionally Based School Avoidance ( #EBSA ) from @westsussex_eps includes many useful recommendations.

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@SMcfarnell

2 years

Like how @carlorovelli ’s influenced by ‘Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna’s central notion of “emptiness” (śūnyatā) [which] tells us that nothing has independent existence: anything that exists, exists thanks to, as a function of, or according to the perspective of, something else.’

Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU)

@DrTomFroese

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"Reality is not a collection of things, it’s a network of processes."

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Where do butterflies store their caterpillar memories?

Figen

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One of the most fascinating processes in nature.

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@adamdavidson @SamWangPhD I can’t believe I got so caught up in this race😀. Is it a metaphor for life? 😀

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Whitstable today

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@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo @BBCiPlayer @Autism @OpenUniversity Murray: “I cannot express my emotions instantly.” I think that’s such an important point. Many autistic people have to navigate overwhelming sensory inputs, so it takes longer for them to respond. It doesn’t mean they lack emotions.

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‘Ego and Super-ego walk into a bar. Bartender says, “I’m gonna need to see some Id.”’

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@RuairiFahy Is there anything more eighties than this video (‘Dominion’ The Sisters of Mercy)?

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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” Hector Berlioz

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@slava__bobrov How do they sense each other? @smfleming @theamygdaloid @StanDehaene @markdhumphries

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“Relational Trauma Requires Relational Repair.” “See the person behind the behaviour.” Powerful messages from @dr_treisman ’s TED Talk.

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Inspired by Spinoza, legendary philosopher Thomas Nagel celebrated neutral monism on 24/06/23. Name-checking @Mark_Solms , he believes affect may provide the key to consciousness.

David Chalmers

@davidchalmers42

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tom nagel's keynote talk at @ASSC26NYC : "psychophysical monism as an ideal". this is a rare video of tom discussing consciousness. now emeritus at NYU, tom rarely speaks at conferences, but this one was just two blocks from his home so he couldn't say no.

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Consciousness. Does @Philip_Goff think it’s made up of tiny pieces of consciousness like @donalddhoffman & Leibniz? Does @BernardoKastrup think it’s universal & singular, but appears to be differentiated like @RupertSpira & Spinoza? Which view has more evidence to support it?

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@MrsSDalton75 This would be my perfect school: 1. Pupils choose a ‘house’ based on their interest 2. Options: Music, Movement, Inventions, Nature, Nutrition, Design 3. Core lessons tailored to those interests 4. Pupils supported by like-minded peers & teachers 5. ‘Stage not age’ curriculum.

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What are the differences between thoughts and feelings?

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The idea of whether a “self” exists or not is a hot topic at the moment. Philosophers, psychologists & neuroscientists are all debating this. Yet, if you don’t believe in a “self”, how would you respond to someone suffering from dementia, who is gradually losing their “self”?

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@desdelboy Never knew Bowie was a Mink DeVille fan. Lovely.

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🎶 “Finger on your eyebrow & left hand on your hip, thinking that you're such a lady killer, think you're so slick!” - Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll - 1977 🤘 🎶

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Sad to hear of the passing of Frans de Waal. I’ll always remember this clip and how one of the monkeys reacts to unfairness. Watch from 1.35 - it’s a classic.

Jochem Bredewout

@JochemBredewout

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Bioloog en primatoloog Frans de Waal is op 75-jarige leeftijd overleden in zijn woonplaats Atlanta in de VS. Frans de Waal heeft ons met zijn prachtige experimenten laten zien, dat we niet heel anders zijn dan apen. 1 van de mooiste experimenten vind ik toch wel deze. Hoe

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Are we thinking our thoughts, or are our thoughts thinking us?

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You know how the back of a fridge freezer gets hot to make the inside cold? What if someone were to redesign it so an extra cupboard incorporates the hot bit to dry glasses, crockery, towels, etc.?

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“Behind our faces there is no secret self which governs our acts and receives our impressions; we are, solely, the series of these imaginary acts and these errant impressions.” Jorge Luis Borges

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Psychotherapist Irvin Yalom talks to @sbkaufman ( @psychpodcast ) about his distinguished career. Rollo May, Viktor Frankl, John Bowlby, Anna Freud & Carl Rogers are just a few of the giants he knew or worked with.

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“A bottle of water can be 50p at a supermarket, £2.00 at the gym, £3.00 at the cinema, and £5.00 on a plane. Same water, only thing that changed its value was the location. So the next time you feel your worth is low, maybe you're just in the wrong place.” Anonymous

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Scott McFarnell

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Some common triggers for distressed behaviour in the classroom (from @BeaconHouseTeam ). With careful planning, the aim is to expand a pupil’s #WindowOfTolerance so they can manage more of the triggers.

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Over 4 hours of exceptional free education in neuroscience from some of the giants in the field. @theamygdaloid says emotions are cognitive interpretations of physically & psychologically significant situations & are used to help decision making.

Luiz Pessoa

@PessoaBrain

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2 years

Sometimes I feel like I’m a visitor from the 1990s. Does anyone else feel the same?

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@alexxguss ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ by Robert M Pirsig.

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Scott McFarnell

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3 years

@Plinz A school educating pupils from age 11 in the domains they are interested in. Pupils would choose a mini-school based on one of the following: Music, Inventions, Nature, Nutrition, Design & Sport. Each mini-school would teach English, Maths, Science, etc but linked to the domain.

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“Humans are active agents, dynamically embedded in interpersonal, social, cultural and historical systems that we build.” “Deep neural networks are at their core, static matrices performing stochastic interpolation.” @DrBreaky on the difference between humans & AI (so far!).

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Scott McFarnell

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6 months

A great way of seeing which figures overlapped historically. Which time period is your favourite?

Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

6 months

Who Lived When? The overlapping lives of historical figures, from 1200 to present Cool infographic

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

10 months

‘The Sapolsky Paradox’ (deciding there’s no free will after weighing up arguments for & against it proves free will). Marvellous phrase. Could be a title for the next book on free will. Someone will have to mention it to him in an upcoming debate. @WiringTheBrain ?

John Horgan

@Horganism

10 months

Robert Sapolsky embodies a paradox: when you decide free will does not exist because you have weighed arguments for and against it, you prove free will exists.

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

1 year

The membrane is so important. I’m wondering whether that is a prerequisite for any kind of consciousness. Therefore, will conscious AI be possible without a membrane? Would that apply to collective consciousness as well? @Mark_Solms @eschwitz

microscopic images.

@microscopicture

1 year

death of a single cell

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

2 years

Dopamine does not = rewards or happiness. @markdhumphries : “Here’s what it does. Dopamine either changes fast or slow. Fast changes are an error signal. Slow changes are a motivation signal. That’s it.”

Mark Humphries

@markdhumphries

7 years

My latest post: “The crimes against dopamine”

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

1 year

@rdkrdk This was Year 9 and an English lesson. I like how they question these statements, rather than simple acceptance.

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Scott McFarnell

@SMcfarnell

3 years

@Toriaclaire Good morning😀 I’m a SENCO in a Kent Secondary School. Enjoying having some time to play guitar 🎸. If anyone fancies taking up Slide Guitar, I’ve put together a short video. No experience necessary.

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