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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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• Lecture 19: Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis (Turvey, 2019,...

  The final lecture about the computational-representational perspective is focused on the general claim that intelligent action can arise from a computer,... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 18: Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System...

  We have encountered the idea in Lectures 6 and 16 that perception might be formalised as a form of computation, and that this might be the step that enables... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 17: Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers (Turvey, 2019,...

  Last Lecture Turvey reviewed the basics of the computational approach, and highlighted again how it is just the latest iteration of the Cartesian programme. Read more

  The 15 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Venkatesh Rao's 'World Machines'

  As usual, I found Venkatesh Rao's writinting in his latest piece "The Divergence Machine" a bit opaque and wordy, so I asked ChatGPT 5. Read more

  The 05 january 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• The Institutional Stance - an Evolved Intuitive Theory?

  I have just been sent an article by BBS (Brain and Behavioral Sciences) that is soliciting commentaries on an article by Jara-Ettinger and Dunham titled "The... Read more

  The 31 december 2025 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• What Our Brains Are Doing as We Experience Musical Pleasure.

  I've been playing more Schubert lately, drawn by his genius for inserting melodic sections within his piano works (sonatas, impromptus, fantasies, etc.) that... Read more

  The 29 december 2025 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• What Are Humans For? - AI Forces a Question We’ve Been Dodging

  . AI Is Already Fusing With Us — The Only Question Is How The argument about whether AI will enhance or diminish our our humanity usually starts in the wrong... Read more

  The 26 december 2025 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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