Another angle on biological collectives, which may interest @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social Renormalization Groups in bio collectives (e.g. swarms, flocks) Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. Fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIAu...

Jumping disciplines and scales www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

"After the reproduction, evolution pretty much wants you dead," says Robert Gatenby in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social Does it? It's an opinion and I understand "survive and reproduce" part, but "wants you dead" seems a stretch. Evidence? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nzb...

"deadly, but beautiful." What a poetic way to call it. Robert Gatenby's evolutionary approach to cancer in a conversation with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Aastha Jain www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nzb...

about Neurochauvinists. A citation from @doctorjosh.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RY...

Very cool result. “Humble” is so humble, it’s meta. #neuroscience

This is a really excellent lab to join - share widely and apply!

On dreamwork in psychoanalysis. An appeal to consider @erichoelzl.bsky.social's work as a very useful addition. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

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European AI chip startup Euclyd has announced CRAFTWERK. Positioned as the world’s most power-efficient exascale token factory, the system made its formal debut at the KISACO Infrastructure Summit 2025 in Santa Clara. www.eenewseurope.com/en/euclyd-un...

Yes, here we are again...

Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroscience

The biggest threat to our civilisation is not comet impact, or tsunamis, or earthquakes, or anything out of our control; the biggest threat is sheer, unabated, overwhelming human _stupidity_, now amplified by the megaphone of social media. We will die by stupid. youtu.be/Ix4nKNDKhTQ?...

Unsubscribed from Disney+ It is pathetic that as big as they are, they let people bully them and they are okay for a few pennies to destroy free speech. They used to hold the fort with the governor of Florida. Not anymore.

Thoughts on historicity in FEP and elsewhere in the context of @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's Symposium on the Platonic Space. thoughtforms.life/symposium-on... Can we understand something without its history (while staying in classical physics, mot QM?) lnkd.in/p/e_UM48bW

Too big for its own good. Karl Friston: "As you get bigger and bigger and bigger, I think there is less opportunity for [...] hierarchical, recursive structure within the scale. I don't see the moon thinking or planning.

Google AI Scientist generating a correct hypothesis on superbug problem in 48 hours www.ainews.com/p/google-s-a... Verified by the team from Imperial College London. This hypothesis took human scientists years to come up with.

@drokw.bsky.social and Yuko Ishihara in their presentation on philosophical and computational aspects of play suggest that "immersion" is an important part of a play episode, as in "getting lost" in play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNU9...

The weather might be solved soon. Solving 3D Navier-Stokes equations on complex boundaries deepmind.google/discover/blo...

One of the reason why people like interactions with LLMs? Barnum/Forer effect. @drokw.bsky.social's presentation, minute 21, 35 seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKRa... I'm happy to see this effect mentioned, I wrote a paper on Narrative Fallacy where it plays a major role, link below

Starting now!

Etymology of "excuse." It's the opposite of "accuse." Accuse means - you are the cause. Excuse - you are not. You've been ruled out as a cause. (excuse by apology has a different meaning, I guess)

Can you build a conscious machine on an existing (Von Neumann's) computer architecture? Karl Friston's answer? No. You need mortal computing (neuromorphic, substrate dependent). Embodiment. @anilseth.bsky.social's beast machine. lnkd.in/p/em4JTQBg

On the last episode of MLST Karl Friston said - if he had to pick one quality necessary at a minimum for an organism to have consciousness, it would be being capable of a sufficiently large temporal depth. Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

If you follow @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's work, he talks about the bow tie architecture quite a bit, e.g. in memory engram being a knot in a bow tie architecture (retrieval/interpretation is a wing). Well, it seems that an mTORC1 is also a knot a bow tie architecture.

There is a rapid increase in the intelligence of tools and a noticeable "dumbification" of people by social media, systematic profanation of science, and easy availability of tools that allow one not to think. This discrepancy is dangerous. It may blow up.

Alpha for sustained attention, theta is the wanderer. Theta-rhythmic attentional exploration of space doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

Karl Friston's take on agency in the context of self-modeling, driven by evaluations of consequences, which implies planing and choosing between counterfactuals. I think this is a beautiful additional view to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social's book Free Agents www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

New paper! Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects, w/ Paweł Moytka, DavidSchwartzman, me, and @ksks.bsky.social. Link below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another point of connection between @earlkmiller.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social Levin’s work is gradualism. In Levin’s TAME there is a commitment to gradualism, vs bright line/categories.

Similarity of thoughts on the unreliable lower levels in @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @earlkmiller.bsky.social Levin: Planaria's "hardware" is highly unreliable. They solve that with extraordinary ability to regenerate.

Final version: "The Role of Bioelectrical Patterns in Regulative Morphogenesis: An Evolutionary Simulation and Validation in Planarian Regeneration" ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110... 🧪

If you work with High-functioning ASD patients and value psychodynamic work, this is worth considering. Dr. Diana Moga, MD, Ph.D. is an expert. www.eventbrite.com/e/psychodyna...

A useful training coming up. If you're in Maryland, you can get CEUs and if you're elsewhere and interested in hypnosis and psychodynamic work - Dr. Spiegel is an expert and highly regarded. eric-spiegel-phd.ce-go.com/integrating-...

A talk at @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's symposium on the Platonic Space. Patterns and explanatory gaps in psychotherapy (Does God play dice?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dH9...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

We're going to see a lot of bullshit in the coming days and weeks about "causes of autism", and most will be based on flawed, over-interpreted observational studies (1/n)

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀? Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions. Looks like a must read. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

This Friday: yes, we need conceptual thinking in neuroscience. Join the discussion!

New preprint, osf.io/preprints/ps... a commentary to @anilseth.bsky.social's pice at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪

Our paper is published. Co-authored with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social , Chris Fields, @lancelotdacosta.bsky.social ta.bsky.social, Daniel Friedman, Rachael Murphy, David Pincus www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... this work presents a computational model of dissociations

Final version of paper is out: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... "Bioelectric characterization of senescing human keratinocytes" #bioelectricity #aging

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sen...

chat GPT leading a paranoid man to a murder www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support

nice conversation, but what's with the hats? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXP...

funny, but informative. LLMs lack "holistic" checks. They are too detail-oriented. www.linkedin.com/posts/zoe-wi...