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• The Mythology of Conscious AI

  I've just read through an excellent article in Noema Magazine by Anil Seth explaining why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation an... Read more

  The 26 january 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Case for Being Human

  ...This Colin Lewis lecture and essay on "Character, Clarity, and connection in a Century of Curated Selves" is a welcome breath of fresh air. Read more

  The 23 january 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Do We Have an Appetite for Transcendence?

  I've been working on a long rambling post on finding meaning in the flow and evolution of the cosmos rather than in the varied anthropomorphic religions that... Read more

  The 20 january 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Lecture 26: Strong Anticipation and Direct Perception (Turvey, 2019, Lectures...

  In this final chapter, Turvey lays out the basics of the ecological approach to coordinating action with respect to the future. Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 25: The Mechanical Basis for "Getting About Among Things" (Turvey,...

  This chapter is about the mechanical consequences of interacting with the environment; what happens when we come into physical contact with things. Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 24: Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things" (Turvey, 2019, Lectures o...

  This chapter focuses on the perception side of the perception-action system we will end up with for behaviour. It covers the objects of perception (affordances)... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 23: Ecological Optics Primer (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  The 'barrage of conceptual details that was Lecture 22' has provided us with the notion of affordances, and these are to be the objects of both perception and... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 22: Ontology at the Ecological Scale (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  After a book length set of preliminaries, we are finally getting to the meat of the positive case the ecological approach has to make. Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 21: Barriers to Ecological Realism (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  Last Lecture Turvey introduced the notion of ecological realism; realism that has a species-dependence to it. Normally a realism is for everyone, but different... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 20: Ecology: The Science That Reasons Why (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  Turvey has finally arrived at the ecological approach, but all the preceding chapters have made it such that there are preliminaries to deal with first. Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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