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• Anarcho-communalism: Towards Human Flourishing and Planetary Equilibrium

  

  Anarcho-communalism is a political philosophy grounded ini) voluntary association,ii) individual sovereignty, andiii) the expansion of empathy beyond kin and... Read more

  The 26 june 2026 by   Bjornostman
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• Nominalist Determinism IV: The Supernatural

  

  We are told that the supernatural is the domain of religion, of spirituality, and lies outside of science. It is said that science deals with the natural world... Read more

  The 25 june 2026 by   Bjornostman
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• What Six AI Models Do and Don’t Know About Me

  This post (for blogging and AI nerds) is the result of choosing an article by Noah Smith from my daily input stream to actually read through. The title of his... Read more

  The 24 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Future-Capable: Curiosity, Adaptability, and Kindness in the Age of AI

  I want to pass on the following edited Claude 4.8 reduction of a Colin Lewis article which I recommend you read through in full form:Curiosity, Adaptability, an... Read more

  The 22 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Some Thoughts on 'The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience' (SCENE)

  Last year the Simons Foundation announced a massive multi-centre grant project called SCENE: The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience. Read more

  The 19 june 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Boredom Can Be Good for You...

  Embracing boredom can calm the brain.... I pass on a science-for-the-general-public Neuroscience News summary of an article from The Conversation:Summary:... Read more

  The 19 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• When the Self Dissolves, the Precuneus Goes Quiet: A Rigorous Test of...

  A recurring question on this blog is how much of what we take to be fixed about experience—time, space, agency, the bounded self—is actually a construction the... Read more

  The 17 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Experimental Evidence for Direct Perception: Persisting Layout (Gibson, 1979,...

  We've now completed the first two sections of the book, which lay out the ecological approach. Gibson now turns to a review of the (at the time) existing... Read more

  The 15 june 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• A Dimmer Switch for Reward: the Vagus Sets the Gain

  In a Trends in Neurosciences Article Wang, Liu, and Bai, simplify and summarize the extensive experiments of Onimus, Arrivet and Gangarossa. Here is a Claude... Read more

  The 15 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Spontaneous Problem-solving in Bumble Bees

  From Bhambore et al., in the June 4 issue of Science Magazine: Editor’s summaryRecent research has revealed that bumble bees are much more cognitively advanced... Read more

  The 12 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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