We just launched ISPSM, devoted to sharing philosophical work on the sciences of the mind worldwide in a sustainable and accessible way. International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind philosophyofbrains.com/2022/12/12/int… via The Brains Blog (fediscience.org/@Brains)

This is an excellent, accessible intro to computational neuroscience. Perfect if you have no math background. Especially recommended to those still tempted by LOT-type views. amazon.com/Models-Mind-En…

1/ There's been some Twitter discussion about whether "hearing voices" is normal. Some answers: First, "voice hearing" is a common symptom of psychotic disorders, but also occurs in non-psychotic disorders, as well as normal people w/ no mental illness. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20047459/

How to use ChatGPT to become a better reader of academic texts:

#JustPublished Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Psychopathology "presents an easy to navigate scaffolding that makes the complexity of psychopathology more manageable and as a writer Kristopher Nielsen is 3e psychopathology’s clearest expositor" tinyurl.com/2rzvvk4e

That's what corticothalamic feedback in the brain looks like, friend! A gyrus from the parietal cortex making the synthesis of movement and motion possible. ⁠bit.ly/3GtWic5⁠ ⁠#brain #neuro #neurology #psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychedelic #neurosurgery #sciart

AI Twitter is flooded with low-quality stuff recently. No, GPT is not “dethroned”. And thin wrapper apps are not “insane”. At all. I feel obligated to surface some quality posts I bookmarked. Every one of them should've been promoted 10x, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In no particular order:

Chato de los tuits tipo "X IA es mejor que Y IA y está revolucionando Z area, aquí te enseño como ocupar X" Casi al nivel de los crypto boys.

DEATH TO ALL ACADEMIC PAPERS IN THE 2-COLUMN FORMAT

damn I love Midjourney

"If the mind is not in the head, where the hell is it? It's precisely the point here: it is in this *non-place* of the co-determination of inner and outer, so one cannot say that it is either outside or inside." - F. J. #Varela

A review of approaches and models in psychopathology conceptualization research | Nature Reviews Psychology Landmark paper on classification and diagnosis in psychiatry nature.com/articles/s4415…

Qué software ocupan para organizar referencias que no sea Mendeley(y tmb leer desde ahi mismo)? siento que anda a puros tirones

This is a map of repetition among all symptoms in the DSM-5. 🧵1/10

going to a prestigious university mostly involves attending lectures like "human rights for the south: a rights-based approach to decolonization" in something called the henry kissinger auditorium

Thomas Szasz's argument: simple, popular, superficial, and wrong. But why? 🧵1/14 Antipsychiatrist: "Psychiatry has claimed that mental disorders are 'dysfunctions' & it has used convoluted reasoning in an attempt to support this claim" Response: Dysfunction is already found...

Primero vinieron por taringa y guardé silencio porque no era taringuera Luego vinieron por cuevana y no hablé porque no usaba cuevana Luego vinieron por el fútbol, y no dije nada porque no era futbolera Luego vinieron por scihub, y ya no quedaba nadie que hablara en mi nombre.

Integrating dialectical insights into cognitive science has driven advances in the enactive approach. This new paper opens a dialogue between enaction and Marxism, highlighting labor as a form of an ecological and distributed cognition link.springer.com/article/10.100…