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

Do Something Else Lakens and the Second Reformation

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...

One motive to rule them all? On status vs power as first movers

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

Being Bo(h)rn Preface B

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...

An Autistic History of Philosophy Preface A

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...

Thanks for sharing, many discoveries for me here! Can I propose Nguyen's "Games as the art of agency"? And maybe my own recent work on Order & change in art: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

👀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? Predictive-coding has justifiably become a highly influential theory in Neuroscience. However, the possibility of its unfalsifiability has been raised…

Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable?

Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I can’t type out this entire page but Klein is making the critical point that liberalism, as an ideology of capitalism, is the thinnest guardrail against fascism because its atomized exaltation of the individual is bound to fail the faithful when they encounter structural exploitations, deprivations and repressions that undergird capitalism. It really is socialism or barbarism

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

Bad News, by Joseph Bernstein Selling the story of disinformation

Yes! That would be worth digging into. The counts are normalized by nb of books published, but I also had no idea that the concept is that old. Its use might have morphed though. There is some history in this excellent analysis: harpers.org/archive/2021... Not nearly going that far back though.

I tend to use Google ngram viewer for this (cut-off at 2019 but the trends are clear)

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding. The fact that artificial intelli...

"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!

Accepted pdf here: psyarxiv.com/6ef9u/

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 Music has profoundly shaped the human experience across diverse cultures and generations, yet the me

Body Maps of Uncertainty and Surprise in Musical Chord Progression and its individual differences in Depression and Body Perception Sensitivity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09....