Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
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Philosopher of Science & Physics, AI Ethics & Machine Learning.
Professor at Auburn University | PhD, HPS, University of Pittsburgh
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Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire wolf to its rightful place in the ecosystem." Three wolf pups—Romulus, Remus a...
phys.org
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Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Multimodal large language models are shown to develop object concept representations similar to those of humans. These representations closely align with neural activity in brain regions involved in o...
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Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
Figuring out whether de-extinction is possible is as much a technical puzzle as a philosophical one. Add two kinds of DNA to the mix, and it gets even more complex.
theconversation.com
Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire wolf to its rightful place in the ecosystem." Three wolf pups—Romulus, Remus a...
phys.org
Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species - Daily Nous
"The Return of the Dire Wolf" announced Time magazine---not quite correctly, it turns out---in its article on the creation of three creatures genetically engineered into existence by the firm Colossal...
dailynous.com
Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see
An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.
theconversation.com
Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods | Elay Shech
Science is undeniably great as a predictive tool. But it’s also full of idealizations – false claims in the form of simplification, exaggeration, and outright distortion. That would seem to rule out s...
iai.tv
Elay Shech
@elayshech.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Scientific Understanding and Representation: Modeling in the Physical Sciences
This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring several articles in an engaging ‘critical conversation’ f...
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