Loved this video by @shaunvids.bsky.social about The War on Science book. Its full of fascinating, yet disturbing, snippets about some of the world's most famous scientists. Gold.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

Plato's Unwritten Doctrines Cambridge Core - Ancient Philosophy - Plato's Unwritten Doctrines

Plato's Unwritten Doctrines - freely available here until October 6th

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Against truth Also against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular

Hilarious and heart-warming essay on one of the depressingly deranged yet influential ideas exacerbating the near-eschatological extent of our McGilchristian masterless cultural matrix, no longer adequately explained by normal neoliberal scientistic STEMlordery, given its carnivalesque grotesquerie.

Steven Rose obituary Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science

Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#OTD, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard was born—a foundational figure in 20th-century French thought and historical epistemology. Bachelard’s #philsci stands out as an early attempt to conceptualize the role of instruments and technology in the production of knowledge. 1/ #philtech

Arménia YouTube video by mini - Topic

youtu.be/X6a7UEPSPiQ?...

Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle - Synthese Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy principle (FE...

I've always felt there ought to be a deep Chomsky/Friston connection from the standpoint of computational efficiency. Nice paper from Friston, Elliot Murphy, Emma Holmes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...