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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · Sep 6

So it’s official: I’ve joined CARVAKAS as their bass player. It’s a Progressive Death Metal band from Chile 🇨🇱 with 4 albums, and their lyrics are about Ancient Philosophy and Materialism. You can find us on Spotify, Bandcamp (support us if you can!) and most music platforms. This is from rehearsal.

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 9h

But my microtubules xD

Stuart Watt @morungos.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve heard people give variants on this argument for 30+ years, and mostly all they say is: we don’t understand either QM or consciousness, so they’re obviously the same thing.

I don’t want your “spooky” unification concepts, you better have a damn good theory, and I haven’t heard one yet.

Daily Neuron @dailyneuron.bsky.social · 1d

New research suggests quantum cognition, a field applying quantum math to decisions, could finally connect microscopic brain processes with our conscious experience. #consciousness #cogsci

dailyneuron.com/quantum-cogn...

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 12h

That’s the thing: I can’t. I’d be comatose by now.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 12h

The constant barrage of reports on social media about the absolute shitstorm clownfest that is American politics now has become excruciatingly tiresome

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 3d

How does explicit memory, like episodic memory, shape implicit attitudes? Today at the Memory Palace, Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona) discusses this and other questions, with particular attention to implicit biases and their harmful consequences.
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

How Memory Shapes Implicit Attitudes

Josefa Toribio (ICREA-University of Barcelona)

open.substack.com

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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of fun exploring the insidious influence of dualist ideas with @evanmcgloughlin.bsky.social
Watch on Youtube Now: youtu.be/x0mjQmmzfCk

Meet the Philosopher of Mind Proving that Consciousness is Physical!

YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 22h

Now my phone doesn’t recognize my face for doing payments. F…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 1d

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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Phil Kapitan - Marx Appreciator 🏴🍉 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 1d

Lotta people jumping to celebrate this award without actually checking some things 👇

Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

A supporter of genocide and genocidal ethnonationalist state won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Image of Maria Corina Machado:
"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 1d

Astronaut meme: "Wait, it's all perception?" "Always has been"

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 1d

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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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 1d

Pitch for a movie: guy in his 40's gets a late diagnosis, so he embarks on a journey to talk to his former friends and his exes, finds out most of them are either officially on the spectrum, or struggling badly without knowing why. They reminisce about being weirdos, and the good and the bad times.

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 11d

“Maybe the reason nobody told you you had autistic traits back then is because either they disliked and bullied you or they had those traits themselves and liked you back.”

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 2d

What percentage of the benefits of scientific conferences do you think comes from sharing our work with each other vs simply having a deadline we are forced to finish things by? Could be 50/50

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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 2d

I talked to Prevention about the use of AI chatbots for psychotherapy.
www.prevention.com/health/menta...

Can an AI Chatbot Become Your Therapist? We Had Real People Put It to the Test

Some apps are promising to expand access to mental health care—but do the benefits outweigh the downsides?

www.prevention.com

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 2d

OFC he likes more his cardboard box

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John Howl Boo @jholbo.bsky.social · 2d

I have such difficulty.

'There's the same picture' meme:
Heidegger: death is ‘the ownmost, nonrelational, certain, and, as such, indefinite and insuperable possibility of Dasein’.

Lovecraft: 'That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die'.

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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 2d

CDS Asst. Prof. @neurograce.bsky.social has launched a YouTube channel, “5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet,” translating climate-AI research into short video explainers, inspired by her course at CDS, “Machine Learning for Climate Change.”

nyudatascience.medium.com/cds-grace-li...

CDS’ Grace Lindsay Launches YouTube Channel on “AI for the Planet”

Grace Lindsay’s new YouTube series turns climate-AI research into five-minute videos for a wide audience.

nyudatascience.medium.com

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 3d

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

authors.elsevier.com

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 3d

It just hit me that my wife (who supports me all the way) must be very glad that my midlife crisis amounts to buying metal T-shirts, training at a boxing gym and playing bass in a death metal band, instead of dying my hair black or getting into booze or womanizing

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 3d

People will do and say the darndest things to achieve closure instead of going to therapy

Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 3d

Every once in a while, Philosophers should get up from bed in the morning, take a good look at the mirror, and ask themselves if their current research topic matters. And to whom. And why.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 3d

I hate so much this thing in Facebook: reels that have a cool snippet of an obscure movie, to force interested people to ask the name of it in the comments. I'm pretty sure uploaders delete the useful replies to drive engagement, because it’s always several dozens of questions with no answer.