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My best friend in elementary school and high school, Jimmy Waller, was killed by the Klan in Greensboro NC on November 3, 1979. He was a doctor who had joined a doctors' march against the Klan. Finally the Greensboro City Council has voted to make an official apology...

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There is one obvious fact about the ONLY systems that we are SURE are sentient: their information processing is mainly based in electrochemical information flow in which electrical signals are converted to chemical signals (neurotransmitters) and back to electrical signals. 1/2

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If fish are sentient, it is because of their neurobiology, not their facility in conversation. @garymarcus , @patchurchland

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Noam Chomsky's 50th birthday celebration in 1978. Chomsky in foreground to the left, @elizablock in the lower right corner, me in the large glasses next to @elizablock

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Zenon Pylyshyn from almost exactly a year ago, the day after Thanksgiving 2021. Zenon was part of our 50 year tradition of Friday Thanksgiving. Also pictured left to right, Georges Rey, David Rosenthal, Janet Fodor, Susan Carey, Anne Telford and me.

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We would be foolish to suppose that fact is unimportant.2/2

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@hakwanlau This letter is self-contradictory. It both claims that IIT makes no predictions and complains about how implausible those predictions are.

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Reality + at the APA

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Does the Prefrontal Cortex Play an Essential Role in Consciousness? Insights from Intracranial...

A central debate in philosophy and neuroscience pertains to whether PFC activity plays an essential role in the neural basis of consciousness. Neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies have revealed...

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Zenon Pylyshyn from Thanksgiving 2007, a healthier time

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Wonderfully generous review by Ian Phillips

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...The dependence on machines will determine and thereby alter the fabric of reality, producing a new future that we do not yet understand..." Drivel from today's Wall Street Journal op ed by Kissinger, Schmidt and Huttenlocher, the Dean of college of computing at MIT

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@cmlittlejohn There is a hole in the donut; the donut is in my mouth; it doesn’t follow that there is a hole in my mouth. But if there is a worm in the apple and the apple is in my mouth then there is a worm in my mouth. The sense of ‘in’ in which the hole is in the donut is not transitive.

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Drivel: "Quantum theory posits that observation creates reality. Prior to measurement, no state is fixed, and nothing can be said to exist. If that is true, and if machine observations can fix reality as well…/1

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@sudha_lakshmi @BrianLeiter Today, building renamed, tomorrow not taught any more

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Perplexity AI: If I walk one mile north, then 1 mile west, then 1 mile south, I end up where I started. Where did I start?

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Malcolm X at a party in Dar Es Salaam in 1965. My wife Susan Carey (2nd from left) "Would you like to dance". http://t.co/IZpBbnKP25

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I don't believe the Meadows story that the next 48 hours is critical. He is setting up "Trump conquers the evil virus" for 48 hours later. Remember Meadows tried to make it look like a leak instead of a statement by the chief of staff.

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Chaz Firestone & Ian Phillips, Seeing fast and thinking slow - PhilPapers

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@smithbarryc @Philip_Goff @nino_kadic Dave definitely keeps up on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness. He has been immersed in the details in our ongoing “adversarial collaboration” project funded by Templeton World Charities on testing first vs higher order theories of consciousness

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Can’t unsee this

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Bing is still screwing up on this

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Avoiding the paywall: ,

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More on "no-cognition" paradigms in the scientific study of consciousness, following Ned Block's critique of "no-report" paradigms. Here's a comment by @ibphillips & @jorgemlg (). And @De_dicto 's answer ().

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@keithfrankish I explained the inverted spectrum hypothesis to my 7 year old daughter. She said that must explain why so many people claim their favorite color is not purple

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My uncle, Bill Robbins, directed the first ever presidential debate—between Nixon and Kennedy on CBS in Chicago in 1960

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" The film ends with much of the NYU philosophy department being attacked and turned into vampires themselves in a blood-soaked climax." 2/2

Biden cabinet favorite Tony Blinken once produced an NYC vampire movie

Joe Biden’s likely secretary of state got his career off to a spooky start. Before sinking his teeth into diplomacy, Antony Blinken helped produce a Hollywood vampire flick set on the campus...

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What Is Wrong with the No-Report Paradigm and How to Fix It

Is consciousness based in prefrontal circuits involved in cognitive processes like thought, reasoning, and memory or is it based in sensory areas in the back of the neocortex? The no-report paradigm...

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"The stylish black-and-white drama — available on YouTube — follows the story of Kathleen Conklin, played by Lili Taylor, a philosophy Ph.D. student who is bitten by a vampire and slowly spirals downward, attacking friends and professors as she attempts to satisfy her bloodlust.1

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@goldwasser_seth John’s Hopkins is the best

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Westworld plot based on Jaynes. But see

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@NicoleCRust Ambien woke up 3 coma patients by suppressing a suppressing circuit

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Dr Manhattan dies of fatalism

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On the right, my wife Susan Carey’s grandmother, Helen Carey. On the left side of the left, the battles that her husband, my wife’s grandfather, William Carey, carried this photo through in WWI. On the right, WWII

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My daughter and granddaughter

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Ada (almost 4): tell me a story Me: you tell me one A: okay, do you want a story about an airplane, another airplane, or another airplane? Me: I’ll take the other airplane. A: the second or the third? Me: the second. A: okay. Once there was an airplane. … now you tell the rest.

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@ASSC26nyc The Science article on the bet is much more scientifically sound than the competing Nature article:

‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results

Two rival theories about the basis of perception went head-to-head in neuroscience experiments, but advocates of “losing” idea aren’t conceding yet

www.science.org

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@Laura_R_Prieto I was a first generation college student

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Avoiding the paywall:

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This is Ned's original paper: .

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@onemorebrown Compared to other things I’ve been called, that’s not so bad

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@thatfollowed There are electrical synapses too so there must be a reason why almost all synapses are chemical

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@denisjabaudon If we abandon peer review, most "science" articles will be written by the latest variant of GPT-3 complete with false claims, bad reasoning and false references.

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24 hour police protection for the Washington Square menorah. The policeman told me they were there throughout the night

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M: I don't dance. S: What's your name? M: Have you heard of Malcolm X? S: Yes but what's your name? http://t.co/sfJ49sg9uy

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@hakwanlau I don’t think you are joking but I hope you change your mind

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@corytlewis None of that stuff is essential to the way the information processing works

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@keithfrankish That passage makes the usual illusionist error of presupposing that materialism is incompatible with phenomenal realism

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Listen to the 4 minutes and 31 seconds of excerpts here: Trump has lost his sense of how people will react to this. You can't listen without thinking "Scumbag"!!

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@keithfrankish Many if not most advocates of qualia deny that our cognitive access to them is infallible. Infallibility is a canard made up by those who deny their existence

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Demystifying Consciousness and Non-cognitive Theories of Consciousness

In “A conceptual framework for consciousness,” Michael Graziano provides a substantive conceptual framework for explaining consciousness. In this commentary I will focus on the way Graziano sets up...

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@MatthiasMichel_ @smfleming @meganakpeters @hakwanlau @jorgemlg @attninaction This paper sounds like a must-read

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@smithbarryc @Philip_Goff @nino_kadic No it is about getting advocates of opposing theories to agree on experiments that would decide between them. There was a Science article on the TWCF initiative a few months ago

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"...in facilitating the 1979 Greensboro Massacre and its subsequent cover up.”

An Apology for a Massacre - Tikkun

A Southern city cautiously enacts an overdue apology for a massacre: The meaning and implications for us today.

www.tikkun.org

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That makes it sound as if genes make a bigger contribution to a person's mental abilities than environment does. But that is not what the research shows. It shows that in some specific populations, DIFFERENCES in genes contribute more to DIFFERENCES / 3 of 5

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Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy..... “There’s probably more transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the last 30 days than there had been in any 30-day period in the entire pandemic.” Anecdotally, I agree. It is not even close.

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@corytlewis No I'm just pointing out that electrochemical conversion is part of the information flow but sexual reproduction is not.

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@chazfirestone Many of us are not surprised by this finding of cognitive penetration

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@davidpapineau @KateManne Manne is right. People are penalized for aggression counter to the stereotypical;stereotypes differ by gender

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@VictorLamme This is the best demo I’ve seen of the fact that change blindness is cognitive, not perceptual. You see the colors that shift but you don’t cognitively categorize them at a level that allows for noticing the shift

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/1 of 5

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Fox is reporting that pence authorized the dc national guard, not trump though trump is claiming credit

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@VictorLamme @drkeithwilson @crabby_smales @keith_wilson Conscious phenomenology is what it is but our cognitive appreciation of it can go wrong in all the ways cognition can go wrong, including intrusion of theoretical bias. If introspection of phenomenology is cognitive appreciation of it then yes it can go wildly wrong.

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@jorgemlg @Northeastern Great news Jorge. Very much deserved

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Blockheads on sale, only $39 at Harvard Bookstore Warehouse sale:

Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale

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@hakwanlau 3 of 3: I have been making this point in meetings for years and years. And in print: see p. 1112 of this:

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@timcrane102 @davidpapineau @JoWolffBSG @RMLLowe @philosophybites @JTasioulas Click on your picture on the top left, then LISTS, then make a list of people you want to see first. Then select the list when you start up twitter

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@kate_manne This reads as if it was written by Gold's publicist. Very similar in tone to this other celebration of right wing society miscreants:

How Jared Kushner Washed His Hands of Donald Trump Before Jan. 6 (Published 2022)

Mr. Kushner’s role in the final months of the Trump White House could come into sharp relief once the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol opens hearings.

www.nytimes.com

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@neuroprinciples @MatthiasMichel_ @ibphillips @jorgemlg My retweet has the pdfs for both Phillips & Morales and my reply

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@hakwanlau Orientation but not expression? Wtf?

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@TrueThaiNews @ClaraJeffery “Far from being disheartened by the massacre of their members, the local group of Workers responded with a kind of macabre elan. Everything that they had hoped for had come true” The Washington Post should retract this garbage—presented with no evidence

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@jorgemlg Everyone knows that immunological dark matter is 87.5% respecting authority and following rules

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@nadine_dijkstra We discussed this excellent article in our discussion group yesterday:

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@davidchalmers42 This verse is pretty good. The rest of them stink

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@hakwanlau Deactivated pfc too in lots of studies.

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@StoljarD Either Lewis was a zombie or he just had technicolor beliefs

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@rgblong Yes I agree

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@RinekeV @NinaStrohminger @jasonintrator This critique is impressive. Was it published? If not, it isn’t too late. A published rebuke that has itself gone through peer review is important to combat the Rushton garbage.

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@chazfirestone @Ericmandelbaum @socphilpsych Wonderful both for the SPP and for Eric. Very much deserved

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Edward Snowden Reconsidered via @nybooks

Edward Snowden Reconsidered | Tamsin Shaw

The Snowden phenomenon was far larger than the man himself, larger even than the documents he leaked. It showed us the first glimmerings of an emerging ideological realignment—a convergence, not for...

www.nybooks.com

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@LedermanHarvey Whenever I give a talk to a Psych department they do this. It is extremely interesting to hear about the things people are doing that are most relevant to my talk

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@alabalawhiskey People are punished socially for deviating from norms, the degree of punishment being a function of the degree of deviation

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@hakwanlau This shows that the monkey is like humans in KNOWING the difference between seeing red and remembering red and that that KNOWLEDGE is in PFC. It is not controversial that knowledge is represented in PFC. This is cognition, not perception. Not relevant to controversies about C

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@hakwanlau The trouble with the idea that the PCI predicts conscious states is that it equally predicts the ability to think and reason. The varying levels of brain damage, the varying levels of anesthesia, etc., all are correlated with varying levels of consciousness but also /1 of 3

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@hakwanlau If it predicts that plants are conscious that shows it is false, not that it it is a pseudoscience with no truth value at all.

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@GaryMarcus Stuart Shieber's articles on the Turing test are still the best:

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@quiltydunn Well said

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@barner_ucsd @samuelmehr Actually $42,500

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Yes, there is such a thing as a formerly developed country via @BostonGlobe

Yes, there is such a thing as a formerly developed country - The Boston Globe

In Argentina, a demagogue won the presidency by promising to restore past glory. Instead, he destroyed institutions, corrupted the Supreme Court, and left the country deeply polarized. Sound familiar?

www.bostonglobe.com

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@hakwanlau @hakwanlau , If it predicts that plants are conscious, that shows it is FALSE, not that it is a pseudoscience with no truth value at all.

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@hakwanlau @NeuroYogacara @evantthompson No contradiction. We can expect stimulation to PFC to perturb any active PFC process. If the subject is thinking about something, there should be an effect of the perturbation. It isn't easy to detect perturbations in one's thought processes, but it is much easier to detect...

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@hakwanlau Hakwan, that plants are not conscious is more certain than any fMRI result. If IIT predicts that plants are conscious, that is a more certain falsification than any fMRI prediction

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" In late evening of October 6, 2020, the Greensboro City Council voted seven to two to make an official apology of substance to the widows, survivors, and residents of Morningside Homes for the roles that the City of Greensboro and the Greensboro Police Department played" ...

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