@cdj
I study how we direct our own minds through attention and its impact on things like perception, action, & consciousness, now extending to collective attention and digital technologies. PI at philosophydata.org, Editor-in-Chief at philosophymindscience.org
“For Netanyahu, the assassination of Khamenei is a major success. Facing crucial elections that could mean the possible end of his political life and maybe his imprisonment over four corruption charges, the short-term gain in popularity and votes is worth it.”
Some helpful insights here.
A photo of a sleeping cat on the lap of someone wearing what looks like comfy clothing, their legs propped up on a chair
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
An individual stands at a podium wearing academic robes, with a microphone in front. Several flags are displayed in the background.
Born #OnThisDay in 1935 was cognitive psychologist Anne Treisman FRS, who developed the feature integration theory of attention. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. Read more about her life and work in Royal Society Publishing #BioMems. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/48zDUe1
I like this, but what do you think about the “creative destruction” idea from economics? I mean: what distinguishes these valuable institutions from those that impede progress, do you think? How can we tell the difference?
Claude just described a piece of code as "a bit fragiguous", a word that does not exist anywhere on the internet according to google. Never seen it do that before
TFW you just agree to this thing and that thing and pretty soon Overleaf tells you it has been almost a month since the last time you logged in to edit your paper that is overdue, but you can't help yourself so you agree to another thing.
I think we inherit the capacity for self
Like this? “Physical science is all about what stuff does. But when we're trying to explain why a system [has feelings] we're not trying to explain its behaviour or the behaviour of its parts.”
I find framing it like this odd. Is feeling not something one does? Is a system not stuff?
@philipgoff.bsky.social here is an argument I have been making (and trying to publish for years now): m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmcN... let me know what you think!
Related (short) paper with Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social philpapers.org/rec/MITCNA-2 - Consciousness needs a subject
In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week).
1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops).
bsky.app/profile/andr...
For those who like good news about philosophy: dailynous.com/2026/02/11/p...
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
Another chilling story. Alberto Castañeda Mondragón is said to have entered the country legally with no criminal history, a job and family. After being racially profiled by ICE he suffers injuries that give him brain damage, memory loss, an inability to work, and large medical bills. Disgusting.
“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”
Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
Fair
A screenshot from the Vogue article about Gaurav Gupta’s 2026 show, with two dresses worn by separate models in different colors delicately interlaced, such that they seem lightly bound to walk together, a fragile connection that could be easily disrupted
Not a fashionista, but I appreciate cool ideas in the arts, and this is a really cool show www.voguehk.com/en/article/r...
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
Wanna know how to infer the presence or absence of consciousness in artificial systems? Check out my new preprint: philarchive.org/rec/WIEITP #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.
Never, in a million kabillion years, when I decided to say "screw it" to mainstream philosophy and started writing about the philosophy of games, could I have imagined that this road would take me down to having the goddamn NY Times profile me and my new book.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
Congrats!
life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there.
(The end of a poem by Renee Nicole Good.)
This stress is affecting everyone.
This is absolutely wild, and super important.
There are zillions of studies claiming that fMRI signals indicate increased brain activity, and it looks like that's often just wrong.
If confirmed, this means we've misinterpreted a lot of research.
