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• Call for Nominations: Blaumann Prize

  Call for nominations or self nominationsThe Blaumann Foundation announces the third Blaumann Prize to recognize a scientific or philosophical work of a young... Read more

  The 15 april 2026 by   Wuthrich
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• Executive Function: Universal Capacity Or Schooled Skill?

  A recent PNAS article by Kroupin and colleagues challenges one of the most widely assumed constructs in cognitive science: that “executive function” (EF)... Read more

  The 15 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Default Mode Network as a Bidirectional Interface Between World and Mind

  I want to pass on the abstract of a PNAS contribution from Zhang et al. titled "Sender–receiver subdivisions of the default mode network in perceptual and... Read more

  The 13 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind

  Reading through the article "A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay" is a rich experience. For readers with less patience, here is a ChatGPT summar... Read more

  The 09 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Memes Before Machines: The Real Cognitive Risk of the AI Age

  I strongly urge you to read a New York Times opinion piece by Willy Staley titled "Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture." (unlocked... Read more

  The 07 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Nominalist Determinism III: The Architecture of Rationality

  

  In Nominalist Determinism, the scrutinizing focus is the semantic audit. By addressing not only what words mean in the vernacular but also the limits of what... Read more

  The 03 april 2026 by   Bjornostman
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• The Variable of Greed

  

  Economics as Human Habit in the Age of the Algorithmic Oligarchs (2020–2030)Greed was never a universal constant like the speed of light, but a programmable... Read more

  The 01 april 2026 by   Bjornostman
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• AI Use Can Compromise Our Serendipity, Creativity, Autonomy, and Sense of Agency.

  I have been reading numerous articles on pitfalls of using AI, and want to point to two in particular that I highly recommend for a slow and careful read. Read more

  The 31 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Optical Information for Self-Perception (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 7)

  So far we have considered what the world looks like to a point of observation that may or may not be occupied. It was important to Gibson that he establish... Read more

  The 27 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Events and the Information for Perceiving Events (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 6)

  In the previous chapter, Gibson introduced the notion of the ambient optic array and discussed the kinds of information it can have (flow, and invariants). The... Read more

  The 27 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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