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johnwkrakauer @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social · 16d

First shot across the bow from ongoing project with Jake.

Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 16d

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article.

We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

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johnwkrakauer @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social · Sep 6

Of course. It’s extraordinarily that we even need to have this discussion - again - I despair.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Sep 5

‪@benhayden.bsky.social‬
@tyrellturing.bsky.social‬
@jmgrohneuro.bsky.social‬
@pessoabrain.bsky.social
I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid
"x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system".
But this does not follow.
A thread...

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johnwkrakauer @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Excited to share this new work

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jul 30

A spinal origin for the obligate flexor synergy in the non-human primate: Implications for control of reaching https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.666086v1

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johnwkrakauer @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social · Jul 13

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core

Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers

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johnwkrakauer @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Agree, it is not a useful term at the level of neuroscience. It is an undeniable capacity at the psychological level. What the neuroscience of this capacity will look like is anyone’s guess.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Jun 4

Terrific podcast relevant to our debates here about “What is an emotion?” But in the case of emotion, it’s turned up to 11 b/c (unlike “representation”), everyone alive has intuition and interest about the answers (including the public).

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

What do neuroscientists mean by the term representation?

A group of neuroscientists and philosophers discuss the use and misuse of the term “representation” across the cognitive sciences.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · May 9

Great interview with Hasok Chang on 'Epistemic Iteration':

The idea that we don't often start scientific inquiries from a solid foundation. We knowingly start from an imperfect position, and use the outcomes to refine and correct the original starting point.

open.spotify.com/episode/6tbT...

Audience Faves: Hasok Chang on 'Epistemic Iteration'

The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jun 9

...it basically confirmed what is already well-established: LLMs (& LRMs & "LLM agents") have trouble w/ problems that require many steps of reasoning/planning.

See, e.g., lots of recent papers by Subbarao Kambhampati's group at ASU. (2/2)

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johnwkrakauer @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social · Jun 19

It was fun working on this with David and Melanie.

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jun 16

New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell).

We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135

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