finjshed the 2nd draft of what I hope is First Nature Films next feature. It's about. . . I'll give you three guesses.

Intuitive for some: Epistemology is a field that endeavors to compress. Different maths, different theoretical landscapes, different empirical data, for different explanatory programs, all lossy compression of reality - this includes conceptualizing epistemology as a field that compresses.

Block computation transfer. The theory that computation directly affects the surrounding environment. (Currently) Only the living brain is immune, as it is a complex computational system. Such computations shape the universe.

This is the premise behind Doctor Who's (Tom Baker) 'Logopolis'(1981)

My present, emotionally driven intuitions here say the sad truth is that most in America do not care. They are working too hard and have no time or inclination to educate. It's the same nazi 'only for the elite' mentality pushed onto them via limited economic options and bitterness. Circle of decay

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

Representatio as casual patterns (with the physical force of affordance / constraint): Am I correct to assume many wrongly 'representation' (as used in cog sci and comp sci) for something else?

New preprint with Nic Rouleau (allencenter.tufts.edu/nicolas-roul...) : what do the major theories of #consciousness say as to why it's specifically associated with brains?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Brains and Where Else? Mapping Theories of Consciousness to Unconventional Embodiments"
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Represention quietism: Is this a thing? Should it be?

Wanting more snow and colder weather. I'm not keen on this global climate change. Maybe I am just getting too old?

It's a mistake to place the causal force of pattern recognition in the recognizer. A pattern recognized is a pattern forced. The ingredients at play (components of a recognizer) have no choice but to recognize (as a whole be affected by) the pattern. Fits physicalist idea of math/computation?

I may sympathize with the idea that affect only occurs in life. But I'd rather say life only occurs with affect.

My intuition says sensory experiences are necessarily effectual. You feel seeing, hearing, etc. Affect is differentiation between sensory experience and imagined or expected sensory experience. It relates to indeterminicy or easiest path in the way differentiation does.

Any Upcoming online philosophical conferences work peeking at?

@drmichaellevin.bsky.social
Assuming consciousness has no strong influence on behavior/learning, non-neuro biocomputation seems straightforward.
But do tadpoles with a 'functional' eye on its tail -which have no neuronal connection to the tadpoles brain- see consciously from the eye? How to test?