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My final (& favorite!) 1st-author paper from my Psychology PhD came out the 1st week of my Philosophy PhD 🥹 Alison Gopnik, Eunice Yiu, & I show that 2- and 3-year-olds rapidly learn & apply abstract relations ('bigger', 'smaller') in a causal problem-solving task!

New fave writing advice: "Shitty First Drafts" by Anne Lamott wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/…

Analytic philosophers in 1999: The "explanatory gap" for life is "closed"

Anthropomorphising Machines and Computerising Minds: The Crosswiring of Languages between Artificial Intelligence and Brain & Cognitive Sciences link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…… @Floridi Short, lucid paper re: "conceptual borrowing" between AI & BCS. Summary tables of borrowed terms:

Can't fully explain it but I think this photo should be the cover art on the next reprint of G.E.M. Anscombe's Intention

the past echoes into the future

Epic line from commune's Residential Guidelines (p. 28): "please leave common spaces, including others' consciousness, as good or better than you found them"

Is evolution predictable or highly contingent? This new Royal Society Publishing paper explains why life here & elsewhere might be universal regarding its logic, from molecular information & cells to viruses &ecosystems. Santa Fe Institute @philipcball Sean Carroll royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

150 years ago, here is what a letter to Nature looked like: I have a squirrel. It cleans itself, then sneezes voluntarily. I had another squirrel in the past, which was similar.

Love this new piece from Alva Noe - it’s “about” AI, but it’s really about human life and action: “We can never factor out mere doing, skilfulness, habit… from the ways these doings… are made new, transformed, through our very acts of doing them.” aeon.co/essays/can-com…

This, from Mariel Goddu (@marielgoddu.bsky.social), Alva Noe and @evantthompson's "LLMs don’t know anything: reply to Yildirim and Paul".