"Oh shit, the number of applications is going up and we just extended the eligibility periods!"

An image of Rick & Morty, except they are both philosopher Richard Rorty with one saying: "The world does not speak, Rorty! Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs, but it cannot propose a language for us to speak." The other Rorty replies: "Holy cow, Rick!"

Starting a seminar on Rorty today, and the "holy cow" always gets me because it fits so well with his American accent and general disposition

bad habits of writing are all too common in philosophy as such, and I know this since I cultivate many of them myself

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a stop sign . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a stop sign .

"LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY!"

Hold on, maybe there is a good use case for gen AI...

Ah yes, Luxembourg! The heavy industry powerhouse of Europe!

Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

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...

Growing up I couldn't anticipate how much of my adult life would be spent asking myself:

Is this what living in Europe in the 1930's felt like?

Current status.

This and the opening of "Knowledge and the Flow of Information" are two passages I have filed under "Naturalistic philosophy that slaps"

a cartoon character says " me fail english that 's unossible " ALT: a cartoon character says " me fail english that 's unossible "

uh Wednesdays...

trzy sześć pięć party girl

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

must be great for the posterior chain!

one from the archives for @krysdolega.bsky.social p. 209 of "The Embodied Mind" citing Rodney Brooks' "Intelligence without Representation"

“Also, the fly does not fly.” 😂

web.archive.org/web/20260316...

Junji Ito comic frame in which a man crawls into a human-shaped hole in a rock face while saying "This is my hole! It was made for me."

Robin Hood Rooster Song YouTube video by Isaiah Sonneland

Seeing this got me like

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPw...

I was on stage with Iggy Pop and got to high-five Mike Watt mid-performance

Time to mint my useless frequent traveler DB status into real gold

old shame, new object

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

Move over LLMs, it's time for wetware DOOM

www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

Diane, It's February 24th...

No idea, but judging by the pic it might be Aragorn, son of Arathorn

"They say that the pen is mightier than the sword.
I keep a small sword just in case they are wrong."

A copy of Richard Rorty's book held open by a scale replica of a medieval longsword

I was looking for a copy of Rorty's "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" and found one that belongs to a true pragmatist...