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boy, been on that trajectories train for a long time now,huh
Great essay by Ted Chiang on consciousness. He nails the centrality of context.
"An observation doesnât become a convincing piece of evidence because of any specific detail in whatâs observed; the context in which that observation takes place is also essential."
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
"The results were so divergent that one has to wonder: If we cannot agree on how to define a ripple, what else might we be getting wrong?"
đ¶ Ripple in still water...
www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
This throwback screenshot is awesome. From CogSci 2021 s/o @orthogonal-lab.bsky.social @bradly-alicea.bsky.social #CognitionFutures @jopro.org !
The program session we hosted was "Trajectories in Cognitive Science"
"...Homo academicus is caught between two fields of power: on one side, the forces of money and politics; on the other, the âwriters and artistsâ and âhereticsâ who produce cultural capital in the first place."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/acad...
Much of the challenge right now is balancing supporting the pursuit, positively, of outcomes and implementations, while maintaining (or, perhaps, addressing) the legitimacy crises that have emerged around tech- and #ai - #hype.
substack.com/@jesparent/n...
cont:
âYeah this is great, but, we know how the world works nowâ, is sort of a particular strand of discontent emerging in the 2020s.'
Full comments: substack.com/@jesparent/n...
'Mediated presence: a brief history of performing to a technologically abstracted audience'
blog.jesparent.com/i/198506308/...
Just finished: Performing as #Human in 2026: AI's latest twist on 200 years of #MediatedPresence
blog.jesparent.com/p/performing...
#digitalhumanities #history #audience #philosophy
Goals: have this much swag in my 70s
#TigerOkoshi and band at @bpl.boston.gov for #milesdavis birthday tribute! #jazz @wbur.org #music
