Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Go to Google Scholar and look up ‘As an AI language model” -“ChatGPT”’

I’ve heard that the secret to Elon Musk’s success is that he actually minimises the time integral of surprisal optimally over hierarchically nested timescales.

RIP Michael Turvey, a mentor and an inspiration. Greatful to have known him. I'm devistated...

Page proofs have arrived!

These are awesome stamp designs

For fans of the font Papyrus: Here's the short video presentation, and preprint for my CHI Play position paper (with Elisa Mekler) Jank Accounts: We Should Study "Broken" Games preprint: osf.io/gcmvp youtu.be/YbvUdqK6bHE

70,000 people trapped in a desert by extreme rain, running out of food, with rumors of disease spreading, and porta-johns overflowing - but determined to keep the party going, is such a great metaphor for our civilization right now. climatecrocks.com/2023/09/02/bur…

It's been a while since we released Paratopic, but our next game is just around the corner... 🐄 The demo for ROMAN SANDS RE:BUILD is live now on steam. 🐄 🌞 complete fetch quests 🌞 meet elderly people 🌞 there is a cow Play the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/Ro…

This demo is cool as shit

Here’s an introduction to Ilyenkov and the enactivist approach in embodied cognitive science link.springer.com/article/10.100…

No one will remember my v niche tweet about reading translation studies papers for fun --- but Dr Feng Feng had this really cool idea: Why not develop design theory via translating Chinese Cí poetry? Check our #DIS2024 pre-print below 👇

One of the coolest papers I've been involved in! What can thermal and affective technologies learn from Chinese classical poetry? Quite a bit!

If you're attending #DIS2024 Dr Feng Feng will be presenting this paper on Thursday. How can descriptions of thermal and affective experience in classical Chinee poetry inform technology design? Trial run at Bristol HCI got a great response, so we're looking forward to DIS!

Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).

I think the physicist who speaks of God as a mathematician is almost indistinguishable from the Bronze Age artisan who was most able to visualise God as a worker in clay.

Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience w Elisa Mekler Challenging results for UX orthodoxy: Intrinsic motivation associated w bad habits, poor need satisfaction Extrinsic sometimes stronger driver of good UX dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…