I don't know why there are so many posts today in my *For you* feed about insects eating other insects.

Very interesting, but some categories listed separate are significant existential risks, e.g. malicious use and misuse.

Hey philosophers! We (brain/mind researchers) could use some help with "mood" over here. (I'm not joking). academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Indeed. Human writing is not just production of words; responsibility for those words is essential. "Large language models cannot enter into the implicit contract that says: here is a mind engaging with a problem, here is a person who cares about getting it right." psyche.co/ideas/well-s...

Interesting paper. "Perceiving and thinking differ in kind. Hearing a truck rumbling past differs from thinking of a truck rumbling past." But are these mental phenomena mutually exclusive, non-overlapping categories? #philsky #philosophyofmind #perception #cognition

I've done this during my days of teaching.

To be human is to live with friction. That’s something AI boosters will never understand. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👇 Nicholas Humphrey on living in 'soul land' #philsky #philosophyofmind #consciousness #self #evolutionarypsychology aeon.co/essays/you-k...

"We have much more in common with other animals than we do with things like ChatGPT" A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: “a realistic possibility” that other animals have consciousness. #philsky #consciousness www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-...

My first op-ed in the Economist is out today! Why AI is the new Oracle of Delphi, and why that's a bad idea. For more, find #PROPHECY in stores today! And if you're in NYC, join me and Tim Wu at 92Y at 7:30pm! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Wow

Okay, but where are the people excitedly celebrating the achievement and offering congratulations?

"Every act has its separate ego" — Husserl

Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning www.bbc.com/news/article...

Brilliant.

Wow!

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I'd probably have trouble deciding which books should serve to structure the top of that dress.

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Highly visual and impactful.

Interesante comentario. Pero si "el arte no reproduce lo visible", sino que hace visible "lo visible", not hay "qualia" propiamente dicha, sino una inefable fusión de realidad y vivencia.

The coffee supply has been less than enough so far.

On the "strike-back" natural instinct, and the "philosophical mistake" of believing in a just world, and in that we are ultimately responsible for our actions. #philsky #ethics #freewill

"How can a group arrive at ‘intelligent’ collective judgements, based on a group members’ individual judgements? What does it take to produce collective judgements in a consistent, non-manipulable and truth-tracking manner?" #philsky

And tomorrow, neither. 🙄 "Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today" theonion.com/biologists-c...

"Humans are more sensitive to the smell of rain than sharks are to blood" I love rain and pretichor, the smell of earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil or ground, but we had enough this year. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Sentience extends beyond experiencing feelings and emotional reactions; it is also involved in essential cognitive abilities such as evaluating actions, recalling consequences, and maintaining relevant awareness. #philsky #sentience

Sage advice

"When we see a red afterimage... there is nothing red present either in the external world or in our brains; rather, we are simply undergoing the experience that would normally accompany perceiving something red." #philsky #philosophyofperception

"...utility is not just about payoff. It is also about whether an action feels generous or selfish, fair or improper, admirable or shameful."

A theory of intimacy to understand human vulnerability "To be an intimate zone, a feature must meet both what I call the Hiddenness Condition and the Importance Condition." #philsky psyche.co/ideas/intima...

The phenomenon of 'involuntary musical imagery' (INMI) or, more graphically, the 'stuck tune syndrome' is the common experience of a piece of music playing on a loop in your brain, like that K-pop earworm song 'Golden' that is everywhere in countless mixes and remixes.

Yet, pleonasm is not mere redundancy, tautology, or stylistic error, as considered by some in academic writing. It's a figure of speech and a rhetorical device used to add emphasis, rhythm, or stylistic impact.

Stay firm with your boundaries and ignore the outburst.

They can be both. There is not (not always) a strict dichotomy. #philsky

👇 Technologies capable of interfering with some of the brain’s root processes, like autobiographical memories, which form the raw material of identity longreads.com/2026/04/09/o...

'You don't paint with colors. You use colors. You paint with feelings'. Replace 'colors' and 'feelings' with terminology such as 'perceptual experiences' and 'mental states,' and Chardin's quote loses its appeal.

I wonder what could distract these madmen from senseless wars, constant conflict, and their bloodthirsty desire for extermination and usurpation.

"...as Rovelli quips, “physicists rarely invent anything without first getting permission from a philosopher.” #philsky #quantum-existentialism www.noemamag.com/quantum-exis...

Artificial intelligence and the breakdown of the intentional stance #philsky #philtwit

Does culture make emotion? "Each individual is born into a world of words, values, histories and affects, which participate in constituting our subjectivity, our cognitive and normative frame of reference, and our emotional landscape." #philsky #philtwit aeon.co/essays/who-a...

"...when students have such easy access to LLMs for the intellectual skills they came to college to learn, and when they turn to them for doing their assigned work, they subvert the traditional processes meant to train their own minds." #philsky www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/our-a...

We've known for a long time in Higher Education that Francis Bacon may have been exaggerating when he said that knowledge is power.

"Our proposal is to understand emotions by integrating different theoretical strands (construction and embodiment),...[contributing] to the emerging literature on emotional injustice by shedding light on the role the social plays, for example, in shaping whose body gets to express which emotions."

Whatever consciousness is, some definitely lack all types of it.

In the meantime, despite some individuals with limited intelligence and a sense of humanity escalating conflict.

I'm not a big fan of sunbathing, as I burn easily, but I love seeing and feeling the sun shining.

It's quite remarkable that pain associated with exercise can also be alleviated through exercise.