But as Harvard’s E.O. Wilson, father of sociobiology, said: “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” 16/25

At the root of the climate crisis: humanity’s spiritual inharmoniousness. We overvalue the pursuit of material wealth and worship billionaires but undervalue growing connected to our spiritual selves and acting to preserve and appreciate the natural systems that sustain us. 24/24

Dreams are synthetic data. But why use data so unconnected from the real world? My answer is that it probably helps with overfitting to our daily lives.

The computer demos of PCT from Powers (2008) are now available free to download & run. A great way to learn PCT… iapct.org/publications/b…

Does a jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece ‘predict’ the shape of the missing piece? If so, *when* does the puzzle think that the shape is going to appear?? Does the brain ‘predict’ the learned patterns that it encounters? Or is are the ‘perceptual shapes’ just a good fit?

We are witnessing history tonight. #DNC2024

I’m looking forward to supporting this event with a wonderful and diverse set of speakers, on a critically important topic. Just two more days to register in person or online…

‘Climate change is the biggest security threat modern humans have ever faced. The collapse of civilisation is on the horizon’ Sir David Attenborough

Excerpt from a video I just posted on YouTube (about the multilayer perception layers in a transformer, and how LLMs may store facts).

The raging #Wildfires in #SouthAmerica are truly mind-blowing Not a word in the media as usual #Metacrisis thrives on silence #Climatemergency #ClimateCrisis

Available once more! Reasonably priced, the core text of perceptual control theory: amazon.com/Behavior-Contr…

The fact that climate breakdown isnt at the top of the media agenda every day is beyond a joke.

Kaya! We’re excited to share that registration and abstract submission are now open for the Western Australian Psychological Science Conference! Here’s the link to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Here's the link to submit your abstract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A special thank you to the speakers of the recent Big Issues event who shared their insights into what is needed to scale interventions to improve mental wellbeing and service systems, highlighting the need for connection, community, and working together towards a common goal.

I never intended to be someone who goes on about climate change. I saw An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 and thought every journalist and parent would be urgently focusing on it relentlessly. I was shocked when they didn’t. I’m still shocked that they’re not. And this is the

When a therapist provides advice, or their own interpretation to their client, it is like riding up to someone on a bike, taking their handlebars, and trying to ride the bike for them. Discuss. 🚲 🚲 💥

Introducing Claudius Osei Professional Football Player turned practitioner & researcher on PCT Florida Atlantic University Stiles-Nicholson Fdn fau.edu/brain/mastermi… link.springer.com/article/10.100… sciencedirect.com/science/articl… youtu.be/O0hqDezlqyE?si…

The Australian Data Science Network Conference 2024 is coming to Perth, and will be hosted by the Curtin Institute for Data Science. The conference will be held at the TL Robertson Library at Curtin University (Dec 2-3 2024), and The Hub at Bentley Technology Park (Dec 4 2024).

I think Michael Levin will like this one… open.spotify.com/track/6mmlzcsa…

Parts of Europe have seen three months rain in one day. Staggering flooding. Mentioned yesterday in the media. Mostly disappeared today. The media are the problem.