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Deniz Cem Önduygu

@dencemond.bsky.social

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(info, data, graphic) design, (evo, mol) biology, (history of) philosophy (bio, mind, ethics, art), memetics, evo algorithms, cog/neuro sci. https://www.denizcemonduygu.com

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Aug 26

HoP 6-month update post!
I've added Zeno of Citium, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Skinner, Plantinga, Block, Strawson, and Oppy; updated Hume, Rousseau, Brentano, Husserl, Wittgenstein, & others; drawn hundreds of new connections. Details & links here:
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Zeno of Citium, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Skinner, Plantinga, Block, Strawson, and Oppy Added; Hume, Rousseau, Brentano, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Others Updated - History of Philosophy

2024 continues to be productive on the editorial side. Here’s what I’ve done since March: I’ve added Zeno of Citium, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Alvin Plantinga, Ned Block, G...

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 20

What a wonderful person Helen was. RIP

Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · Mar 28

Before I got sick I could play this piece (2023)! I hope that lute is still in the cards for me...

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 13

Kant softening the blow like “I wrote this easier, shorter version for you dimwits, and if you still don’t understand I’m sure you’ll do great in physics or something”

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Jeff Yoshimi @jyoshimi.bsky.social · Jun 9

Back in the 90s I led a team of artists and researchers mapping out all the debates about AI. It was a huge project. We read over a thousand papers and organized it all into a massive set of debate maps. 1/3

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 4

I thank Eren Pultar and Konda Research for helping me with the data collection. If you want to use these visualizations, you can cite this post (in Turkish): Önduygu, D.C. (2025). “İl Nüfusları 1927–2023”. www.denizcemonduygu.com/2025/05/il-n...

İl Nüfusları 1927–2023 - Deniz Cem Önduygu

Konda ile hazırladığımız Türkiye 101 projesinin ana temalarından biri kentleşme idi. Ben de bu bağlamda küçük boylarda...

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 4

Insight: While working on this, I realized that when we use dots instead of color to represent population on a political map, we’re *visualizing* both the population and the density (population / land area). (It could work better with smaller unit areas than provinces.)

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 4

And this is a static version that shows the absolute and proportional values for provinces in parallel.

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 4

This version uses the absolute numbers to show the total population growth since 1927; each dot represents 3000 people.

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Jun 4

I visualized how the population distribution by provinces in Türkiye has changed since 1927 (not showing the total population growth in this one). Dots are distributed uniformly within province boundaries; they don’t claim to show settlement areas. Thread↓

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 30

Donna Haraway (Situated Knowledges)

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 29

just watched the whole Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists after all the hype and found out I’m a Christian because I’m not a terrible person (I think?) and haven’t committed suicide yet

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 27

We wouldn’t have to deal with this much disease if we solved this gas exchange thing more gracefully, without taking it all in every few seconds through wet sticky pipes and bags inside us. Breathing was a bad idea.

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 25

Seneca argues astrology is useless, even if its predictions are true.

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CogIST @cogist.bsky.social · May 18

Eşkurucumuz ve koordinatörümüz Yunus Şahin (@herrbokologist.bsky.social ), Türk Felsefe Derneği’nin Çağdaş Ontoloji Seminerleri kapsamında “Zihnin Ontolojisi ve Bilimi” başlıklı konuşmasıyla yer aldı. Konuşmayı dinlemek için:

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Zihnin Ontolojisi ve Bilimi

YouTube video by Türk Felsefe Derneği (TUFED)

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 18

We’re out of town and he’s fallen in love with this armchair.

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 14

one of those where it’s impossible to stop highlighting

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 11

I’ll donate my body to science. But to physics, not to medical science. They can throw it around to study gravity or something.

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · May 9

Bilim Akademisi için tasarladığım deprem direnci ile ilgili kitap dizisi artık açık erişimde! Pdf olarak indirebilirsiniz. (Bu dizinin başka başlıklarla devamına ve benzer çabalara destek olmak isterseniz kitapları satın alabilirsiniz.)

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Apr 19

People are making fun of the handwritten “Covid-19” but I think it’s a wise typographic choice that visually supports their claim that SARS-CoV-2 is human-made – almost like a signature. So maybe the photo layout choice that suggests Trump leaked it is also intentional...

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Apr 13

Rorty on the relationship between social-political movements and philosophy (from “Feminism and Pragmatism”)

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crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social @crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social · Apr 10

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%.
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury.
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CorsiRosenthal #CleanAir #PublicHealth

“SARS-CoV-2 airborne detection within different departments of a COVID-19 hospital building and evaluation of air cleaners in air viral load reduction”

The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought in light the necessity for the development of novel detection methods for airborne transmitted pathogens, and the…

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Apr 8

In a collaboration with KONDA Research and Consultancy, we designed a data visualization that looks at Türkiye’s history and present. Links↓
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KONDA ile Türkiye’nin geçmişine ve bugününe bakan bir veri görselleştirme hazırladık. ↓

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kontent.konda.com.tr/101/

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Mar 7

missing those times when we globally had 7 funny videos in total (office man destroying his computer, etc.) and didn’t have to keep up every day

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Feb 22

It may be explained by a mix of a naturalistic fallacy (1 is natural, 2 is not, so 2 is bad), a desire for control (it’s easier to control whether to get the vaccine), a distrust of science/medicine, a susceptibility to misinformation, etc. but it’s still too weird for me.

Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Feb 22

“Here’s a disease that harms the cardiovascular system.”
“Here’s a vaccine that decreases its effects.”

People, after getting the disease (multiple times) and the vaccine, experiencing cardiovascular problems:
“It must be the vaccine!”

This is just too weird for me.

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Deniz Cem Önduygu @dencemond.bsky.social · Feb 19

I’ve used this in many presentations for years (always giving credit). Thank you!