Heads-up: another FEP piece by a critic that is also a spectacularly accessible way in to challenging, potentially problematic, but none-the-less astonishing body of research. Cf. @bayesianboy.bsky.social on The Math is not the Territory and @diovicen.bsky.social on the Markov Blanket Trick 😍

Yes, Cognitive Psychology advocates HAVE systematically kicked the can down the road - it's a "science" based on faith that someday, someone else will bridge the gaps identified by everyone from Bergson and James to Deleuze and Guattari - see cognitioninaction.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/7.-g...

Decades ago, my supervisor noted that "seemingly never bereft of conscious and understood motive, the historiographical Asante sometimes appear to traverse existence as if it was nothing more than a consensually agreed calculus of reason and logic… the automata of materialist rationalism" - and now…

"it influences the types of experiments we conduct, the analyses we apply, and the interpretations we give to our findings. It reorients our focus from finding a region’s “function” to understanding how neural interactions, feedback loops, and ever-changing contexts give rise to functional states" 👇

“…the process of drafting is actually a key part of the process of producing work …Everyone who actually creates things understands this. It's ok that it's hard! It's ok that it doesn't work the first time! Nicely put, @adw.bsky.social 😎 psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/gene...