Featuring some accordion, (shaky) violin, and some Greek lute 🎵🎶 And sad vibes

I set up a Bandcamp to host a bit of music I wrote for a game jam this past weekend, hopefully more such projects to come :)

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Given that the task outcomes also don't correlate with ADHD, could this be an instance of Wittgenstein's Ruler? I.e. Does it tell us more about the task's limitations than people's real-world attentional capacity?

Brb gotta cogitate embodidevly

Wall-E is a great substantiation of Kant's critique of pratical reason

It also seems like the only thing I've encountered that satisfactorily operationalizes/grounds @neddo.bsky.social's and @anilseth.bsky.social's claims that consciousness might have substrate dependence in a concrete argument (the argument that only fields can physically integrate information)

Still waiting to hit a wall with CEMI field theory. I've sent it to two physics grad student friends who say the physics is sound - no evaluations yet from any computational neuroscientists! Surely someone can poke a hole in this for me? #neuroskyence

Very different from LLMs that are simply fed context/memory back in as external input each time they're asked to generate a token. That's cheating!

I've been interested in models of working memory that use reservoir-like populations of recurrent neurons in the PFC that pool information and keep the echoes of information alive over time using feedback loops ("echo state machines")...

(context integration beyond one or two neighbouring words*)

Qu’est-ce que la conscience, et quels sont ses mécanismes cérébraux ? (2) - S. Dehaene (2025-2026) YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France

3, no transformer-like circuits found in the brain AFAIK? Context integration ("self-attention") of language semantics in the brain seems to be done by conscious working memory mechanisms according to work by Dehaene, and isn't done in an automatic/feedforward way. youtu.be/V1OaDKuffBM

Integrating information in the brain’s EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness A key aspect of consciousness is that it represents bound or integrated information, prompting an increasing conviction that the physical substrate of consciousness must be capable of encoding integrated information in the brain. However, as Ralph ...

The seat of C, to me, seems to be everywhere, encompassing (a subset of) everything all at once. This information being transmitted (literally/physically) to a unified field seems to satisfy that issue...

Refs:
doi.org/10.1093/nc/n...
doi.org/10.3390/e251...

But in my consciousness, I have access to both the low level (uncompressed) representations and the concepts at the same time. My awareness isn't swimming in a dark world of ideas except when I close my eyes (and ears and...). How is all this information bound together? ...

The proposed solution to the binding problem is really interesting and touches on something that's been bugging me about other theories like HOT or GWT. Our current best models compress sensory representations and feed them into a latent space that can perform computations on concepts...

Does anyone fuck with the CEMI field theory of consciousness? Compatible with recent work on ephaptic coupling championed by @earlkmiller.bsky.social and surprisingly parsimonious... Briefly, the unconscious mind == classic neural computation, concious mind == EM field computation

My greebles aren't behaving so I've been thinking about my backup plan to open a bakery or become a blacksmith or something

This was me

Reposting this earlier edit of another film but more legible. Same vibes

I had a transcendent experience after watching Resurrection (2025) in the cinema. Standing on the sidewalk chugging cigs for 25 minutes, staring wide-eyed down the street waiting to come back to reality.

Thanks George Carlin

I think we made a mistake when we stopped being little rat creatures, and a second mistake when we accepted modernity. Grooming, cuddling, co-sleeping with your fellow rats, all lost to time.

... Especially in young humans or young animals, who haven't had time to develop sophisticated statistical world models. But maybe I'm missing part of the picture. Any thoughts? @nicolecrust.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social

This came up in a paper (Yin 2014) on basal ganglia control of movement. It reminds me of a critique I had of Feldman-Barrett's predictive processing theory of affect - it seems computationally intractable to predict, with a forward model, the metabolic consequences of everything that happens...

"Yet modern man feels uneasy and more and more bewildered. He works and strives, but he is dimly aware of a sense of futility with regard to his activities. [...] While becoming the master of nature, he has become the slave of the machine which his own hands built." (E. Fromm 1947)

Long ago, the four dynamical regimes lived in harmony. Then everything changed when

To people who are afraid of rats/mice - would it help if I told you they have human emotions?

That said I think I might agree with Yoshua Bengio's take (and even going back to the paperclip thought experiment) that giving AI/AGI drives is something that we should actually avoid at all costs, lol

That plus the fact that I think we are not by nature transparent to ourselves, and people who are into psychology or related fields and think a lot about their mental states and structures are really an odd, thin sliver of the population...

IMO I think that due to cognitive scaffolding and our ability to predict future rewards people end up not even realizing that their behaviours and goals bottom out in some kind of affective primes, even if they are adopting culturally normative goals.

This makes me feel vindicated lol, my thinking has been for years that we don't do (or think) anything except by virtue of how it makes us feel. Without affect we would just go catatonic (as lobotomies/diseases/drugs that affect the medial forebrain bundle induce)