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Kevin Mitchell

@WiringTheBrain

Neurogeneticist interested in genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018), FREE AGENTS (2023). https://t.co/PdgAxi6myV

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Steven Quartz PhD(@StevenQuartz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kevin Mitchell What then is the basis for positing an integrated self that operates above/beyond the level of neural circuits implementing computations (this is indirectly I think the basis for Pereboom's claim that agent causal libertarianism is incoherent/empircally redundant)?

@WiringTheBrain What then is the basis for positing an integrated self that operates above/beyond the level of neural circuits implementing computations (this is indirectly I think the basis for Pereboom's claim that agent causal libertarianism is incoherent/empircally redundant)?
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Dr. Walter Veit(@wrwveit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Christmas Episode: Interview with Kevin Mitchell on Free Will and the Evolution of Agency

Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=KZ2ybgโ€ฆ
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5x3vy0โ€ฆ

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Luiz Pessoa(@PessoaBrain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Had a chance to catch up with Hofstadter's ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฝ.
If you want to think about how low-level entities (cells, neurons, parts in general) lead to higher-level properties, this is great fun. Repetitive at times, and on a loop (on purpose) but worth it.

Had a chance to catch up with Hofstadter's ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฝ. If you want to think about how low-level entities (cells, neurons, parts in general) lead to higher-level properties, this is great fun. Repetitive at times, and on a loop (on purpose) but worth it.
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Luiz Pessoa(@PessoaBrain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Alicia Juarrero's ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, important contribution that follows on her earlier work on causation in complex systems: Understanding systems (brains/behavior/etc) in terms of interactional, extended, and context-dependent interdependencies.

Alicia Juarrero's ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, important contribution that follows on her earlier work on causation in complex systems: Understanding systems (brains/behavior/etc) in terms of interactional, extended, and context-dependent interdependencies.
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Luiz Pessoa(@PessoaBrain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Philip Ball's ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€ is a stunning dive into the biology of genes, proteins, and molecules that provides a much-needed novel perspective of the 'biological' given the progress of the past decades. It's not simple, but the rewards are immense.

Philip Ball's ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€ is a stunning dive into the biology of genes, proteins, and molecules that provides a much-needed novel perspective of the 'biological' given the progress of the past decades. It's not simple, but the rewards are immense.
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Luiz Pessoa(@PessoaBrain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ, a few suggestions!
(including older books read this year)

My top two choices include Kevin Mitchell's ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€, a fascinating take on how to 'naturalize' challenging problems such as agency, and even free will.

๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ, a few suggestions! (including older books read this year) My top two choices include Kevin Mitchell's ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€, a fascinating take on how to 'naturalize' challenging problems such as agency, and even free will.
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TyfoodsForThought(@Tyfoods4Thought) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Semantic Information as existential information (i.e. information necessary for a system to maintain its existence).

Important piece on the road to defining intelligence existentially too. ( I.e. How efficiently the sysem can use semantic information )

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsโ€ฆ

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Matthieu Thiboust(@mthiboust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Consolidation doesnโ€™t copy memories from one brain area to another but rather creates a new memory that is a generalization of previous memories. The amount that a memory can be generalized โ€“ not its age -- determines whether it is consolidated or remains in the hippocampus.'

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Kevin Mitchell Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s You could enhance your point that Newtonian mechanics works well to predict 'the orbits of planets' (p.158), by citing: 'New Proof Finds the โ€˜Ultimate Instabilityโ€™ in a Solar System Model'---It actually does *not* work well. quantamagazine.org/new-math-showsโ€ฆ

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What we need to do is narrow down the search space: come up with a few decent options and evaluate them for the best one. That is exactly what enables us to do. | Kevin J. Mitchell Kevin Mitchell TIME time.com/6549514/brain-โ€ฆ

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Anastasia Christakou ๐Ÿ’™(@Christakou) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kevin Mitchell Yohan J. John I guess I am just keen that neuroscience is shielded from the unrealistic burden that fills the philosophical vacuum in which we sometimes find ourselves.

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Yohan J. John(@DrYohanJohn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Luiz Pessoa Philip Ball Kevin Mitchell The trick is to give the 'middle' level enough degrees of freedom to capture the variables corresponding to interventions of interest.

So it is good to have even a vague placeholder for neurotransmitter effects even in a rate model.

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Yohan J. John(@DrYohanJohn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Luiz Pessoa Philip Ball Kevin Mitchell The very slow components, often forming some kind of environment or context, can be treated as constants. The very fast components can often be treated as stochastic noise, or just 'integrated out'.

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My take on Tolstoy's fatalistic masterpiece War & Peace, which remains all-too-relevant: johnhorgan.org/cross-check/frโ€ฆ

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Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 1 - a tale of two neuroscientists wiringthebrain.com/2023/12/undeteโ€ฆ

Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 1 - a tale of two neuroscientists wiringthebrain.com/2023/12/undeteโ€ฆ
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