New post on the seductions of AI conversations: Cold humans and warm machines www.thereisnoreward.com/p/cold-human...

A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics! A small start, but I’m sure it will grow. I will add more folks as I find them. Ping me with your additions. #neuroaesthetics #empiricalaesthetics go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw

Intriguing post. I don't agree with everything Munger says, nor want to discuss specific points that seem to be of personal nature. But some of his observations about #metasci are on point, such as the distinction btw wanting to persuade colleagues vs imposing how everyone needs to do science. >

@stephengadsby.bsky.social and I wrote this new piece, discussing the role of 'aha' experiences in propagating belief in conspiracy theories. psyche.co/ideas/the-su...

New piece on our deepest motivations: open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

Prefaces of books I probably will never write. Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn Best phrase: "Two brother’s wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked." open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

Prefaces of books I probably will not write. Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy. Best phrase: “They clearly never met me with my mother”. open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...

👀Out now: A new open access publication in Phil. Trans. B with Jacopo Frascaroli and Karl Friston. We examine why we are grasped by art, and we end up exploring the essential tension in living beings between order and change. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Check out the special issue!

Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable? Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s so hard not to screenshot all of Doppleganger by Naomi Klein but this point is so crucial.

"Perhaps it is time for funding bodies to rethink their application processes." Interesting commentary on how ChatGPT is entering the grant-application system. #rethinkfunding www.nature.com/articles/d41...

As Karl Weick explained, “how do I know what I think, until I see what I say?” And in writing, this is where we’re finally forced to make hard decisions about structure and to articulate concrete relationships between ideas. We may lose that when AI fills in those thoughts for us.

Insight is not some 'special' process studied only on the fringes of experimental psychology. Having an "Aha!" leaves a mark on the person's mental world and thus has real consequences for behavior. Great paper!

Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review. With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Body Maps of Uncertainty and Surprise in Musical Chord Progression and its individual differences in Depression and Body Perception Sensitivity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556777v1