I am a neurophilosopher, so work at the interface of philosophy, neuroscience & psychology. On questions like where do values come from, what is self & awarene?

Joined December 2010
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Patricia Churchland retweeted
14 Jul 2024
Sometimes, one should listen to German philosophers.
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Glad to see this out! Enjoyed speaking with Elissa about the need for rigorous reporting of ephys data quality. Looking forward to broad adoption of the RIGOR standard.
Electrophysiology findings can vary widely from lab to lab, even among those using identical protocols. New guidelines set forth in a preprint should help. By @ElissaWelle thetransmitter.org/electrophโ€ฆ
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Almost a decade after the idealistic Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson got more pessimistic. Warned it was "only a matter of time" before Americans were tempted by dictatorship. He warned future Americans to ward off the "wolf of tyranny." Please listen.
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Replying to @ylecun
Thatโ€™s misleading. Most large employers offer paid maternity leave in the U.S.
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2 Jul 2024
American exceptionalism.
Days of paid maternity leaves offered to workers: ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria โ€” 410 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Albania โ€” 365 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina โ€” 365 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran โ€” 270 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Slovakia โ€” 238 ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia โ€” 208 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czechia โ€”196 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India โ€” 182 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland โ€” 182 ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ช Venezuela โ€” 182 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ Iceland โ€” 180 ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary โ€” 168 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China โ€” 158 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy โ€” 150 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland โ€” 140 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia โ€” 140 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile โ€” 126 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Kazakhstan โ€” 126 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡พ Paraguay โ€” 126 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด Romania โ€” 126 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine โ€” 126 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil โ€” 120 ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa โ€” 120 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria โ€” 112 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh โ€” 112 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain โ€” 112 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France โ€” 112 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐ Pakistan โ€” 112 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey โ€” 112 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada โ€” 105 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines โ€” 105 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland โ€” 98 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany โ€” 98 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan โ€” 98 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina โ€” 90 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt โ€” 90 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia โ€” 90 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea โ€” 90 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Colombia โ€” 84 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico โ€” 84 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria โ€” 84 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Saudi Arabia โ€” 70 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช UAE โ€” 60 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland โ€” 56 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark โ€” 42 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK โ€” 42 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA โ€” 0 According to Worldbank, Gender Data Portal
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Trump is wildly wrong when it comes to crime โ€” violent crime rates are lower than theyโ€™ve ever been in the last 15 years. Theyโ€™re also down 26% from Trumpโ€™s 2020 levels. @Morning_Joe
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You should probably stop whatever you're doing and watch this right now, because it's amazing. youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDMโ€ฆ
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I'm going to post this video every day until the election

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SEVEN AND A HALF LESSONS ABOUT THE BRAIN: Best Books 2020 (Amazon Barnes & Noble), Starred Review (Kirkus), "Must-read" (Discover Mag), "Beautiful writing" (@DavidEagleman), "Remarkable insights" (@DanielPink). The world's first neuroscience beach-read. lisafeldmanbarrett.com/booksโ€ฆ
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not even meaning to be ironic but the months of rhetoric of the need to "save democracy" are somewhat qualified when, within the Democratic party, it is taboo to even suggest that another presidential candidate be considered; even to hint at such an option, in theory, will result in being "unfollowed" by some persons vehement about hewing the line. what, then, is "democracy" if one cannot utter even an option possibility without being shouted down? either you believe in others' opinions being allowed to be heard, if not respected, or you do not. no? yes?
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Patricia Churchland retweeted
27 Oct 2023
Watch this amazing speech by @mijalbitton. And then watch it again. America must stand with Israel, now and always. And we must unite to stop the dangerous and shameful anti-Semitism rising on our campuses and elsewhere. Never again means never again.

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This year, #BreastCancerAwarenesMonth has personal significance for me & my lab members. Folks, take this opportunity to get screened and/or tell your mum, sister, aunt, friend or partner to do the same. Please RT and spread the word!
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The best (only) non-reductive account is computational & the best characterized non-deterministic computational account = stochastic policies in reinforcement learning. How does randomization over a probability distribution on action space = the right kind of sourcehood/free will
If you're thinking of causation only in terms of physical forces, you will never understand brains and minds.
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The thing with effective altruism is that viewing anonymous donations to strangers as the paradigmatic moral act is a basic misunderstanding of the nature of ethics. It's an error beginning with Bentham that has marginalized the fundamentally interpersonal nature of ethics.
27 Oct 2023
The thing with Effective Altruism is, at the end of the day, it's got people who willingly donate their kidneys to strangers, and no amount of philosophical nitpicking makes that go away. That's why it's good.
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The opening quote to my 2017 PhD Dissertation:
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