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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 14h

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 13h

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Screenshot of a paper abstract:

“Core knowledge” refers to a set of cognitive systems that underwrite early representations of the physical and social world, appear universally across cultures, and likely result from our genetic endowment. Although this framework is canonically considered as a hypothesis about early emerging conception — how we think and reason about the world — here we present an alternative view: that many such representations are inherently perceptual in nature. This “core perception” view explains an intriguing (and otherwise mysterious) aspect of core-knowledge processes and representations: that they also operate in adults, where they display key empirical signatures of perceptual processing. We first illustrate this overlap using recent work on “core physics”, the domain of core knowledge concerned with physical objects, representing properties such as persistence through time, cohesion, solidity, and causal interactions. We review evidence that adult vision incorporates exactly these representations of core physics, while also displaying empirical signatures of genuinely perceptual mechanisms, such as rapid and automatic operation on the basis of specific sensory inputs, informational encapsulation, and interaction with other perceptual processes. We further argue that the same pattern holds for other areas of core knowledge, including geometrical, numerical, and social domains. In light of this evidence, we conclude that many infant results appealing to precocious reasoning abilities are better explained by sophisticated perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. Our core-perception view elevates the status of perception in accounting for the origins of conceptual knowledge, and generates a range of ready-to-test hypotheses in developmental psychology, vision science, and more.

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 14h

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26863/

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 14h

New paper on Predictive Processing is forthcoming in Biology & Philosophy. The basic gist of the paper is: Predictive processing, in its most ambitiously unificatory form, entails equipotentialism.
Preprint and full abstract below

#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

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Gyruum @gyruum.bsky.social · 1d

Questa è, o era, l'ambulanza che un nostro caro amico e volontario di Bologna ha portato in Ucraina.

Centrata da un drone ieri pomeriggio, i volontari stanno tutti bene, ma urge il bisogno di trovare un'altra ambulanza. Non ho più parole per descrivere questo infinito terrore.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 2d

The enemies of freedom

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 5d

Miller is a nazi.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

Every word of this is a lie.

The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 8d

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 7d

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

frances-egan.org

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John Howl Boo @jholbo.bsky.social · 8d

Conversely, there are no prominent R's who have the sobriety and integrity to point out that high-level elected officials - like the President and the VP - have a special duty not to spew inflammatory lies. There are no D's inflaming violence & no R's who will call out their side for doing so.

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 9d

SC =?

Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 9d

All this, whilst she remains entirely silent on the real war on science both ideological (insert classic outraged "are we really financing THAT" popular article here) and practical (let's get rid of these unproductive funds/positions)

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 9d

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

www.mcgill.ca

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 9d

In fact, criticising specific scientific work IS scientific work! That's how science works!

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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · May 29

Our special issue of Topoi on "Progress in radical embodiment" can be found here

I'll post the articles in the thread below as they are published

link.springer.com/collections/...

Progress in Radical Embodiment

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Progress in radical embodiment. The special issue aims to explore progress ...

link.springer.com

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 17d

Don't miss the ISPSM 2025 - register here
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy

ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 17d

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨

Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

#philmind #philsci #philsky

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ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 17d

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨

Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

#philmind #philsci #philsky

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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 20d

😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience

Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!

www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind

This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

www.routledge.com

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Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 19d

Here is a summary of our contribution to www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

by @marielgoddu.bsky.social

#cogsky #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience 🧠🧪

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 24d

Racism all the time.

Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 24d

National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

dlvr.it

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 29d

'Sometimes'

Peter Schulte @peterschulte.bsky.social · Aug 29

New paper: Is Millikan's biosemantics a consumer theory? THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Millikan vs. Millikan: biosemantics and the role of the consumer - Synthese

Millikan’s biosemantics is commonly characterized as a “consumer theory” of representational content. Proponents of this characterization interpret Millikan as privileging representation consumers ove...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Sep 9

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · Aug 31

You know, these are rights we have. Full stop. You can violate them, hell you can have them unacknowledged by the law or the powers that be, but these are rights we have all the same. That’s what makes them inalienable. Amendments codify and enshrine, they don’t create. These are our rights

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Nov 10

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

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