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Mashup Score: 32The origins of meaning – from pragmatic control signals to semantic representations - 15 hour(s) ago
The concept of representations is widely used across the cognitive sciences, but its meaning is highly contested. Representations are often thought of as “vehicles” with “content” – that is, internal physical patterns that are correlated with some state of affairs and that usefully convey that state of affairs to the rest of the neural system or the cognitive economy at large. This raises a number of problems: how does an internal pattern come to be correlated with something else? How does the rest of the system know what the pattern means? How does the system know what to do with that information? I suggest that thinking of representations as vehicles with content presents a stumbling block to answering these questions. Instead, thinking of them simply as meaningful patterns offers a more naturalistic framework for understanding their roles in perception, behavioural control, and cognition. Meaning is not contained within a vehicle – it is relational, contextual, and interpretive. Her
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Nature – Antisense oligonucleotides effectively decrease the inclusion of exon 8A of CACNA1C in human cells both in vitro and in rodents transplanted with human brain organoids, and a…
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Nature – BARseq interrogates the expression of 104 cell-type marker genes in 10.3 million cells over nine mouse forebrain hemispheres to reveal the role of peripheral inputs on cortical area…
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Mashup Score: 157The Fate of Free Will | James Gleick - 3 day(s) ago
Nobody was holding a gun to your head when you started reading this. You made a choice. Surely it felt that way, at least. A sense of agency—of control
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Mashup Score: 1Futurama - evolution debate scene - 3 day(s) ago
From S06E09 – A Clockwork Origin. Season 5 on Netflix for some reason.
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Mashup Score: 44Rush - Freewill (Audio) - 4 day(s) ago
“Freewill” from ‘Permanent Waves (40th Anniversary)’. Get yours now: https://lnk.to/PermanentWaves40YD.Subscribe and ring the bell to never miss an update: h…
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Mashup Score: 3Teach philosophy of science - 5 day(s) ago
Much is being made about the erosion of public trust in science. Surveys show a modest decline in the United States from a very high level of trust, but that is seen for other institutions as well. What is apparent from the surveys is that a better …
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Mashup Score: 3Teach philosophy of science - 5 day(s) ago
Much is being made about the erosion of public trust in science. Surveys show a modest decline in the United States from a very high level of trust, but that is seen for other institutions as well. What is apparent from the surveys is that a better …
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Mashup Score: 31
Science and Engineering Ethics – Research Integrity (RI) is high on the agenda of both institutions and science policy. The European Union as well as national ministries of science have launched…
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Mashup Score: 25A Systematic Review of Direct Outputs from the Cerebellum to the Brainstem and Diencephalon in Mammals - 10 day(s) ago
The Cerebellum – The cerebellum is involved in many motor, autonomic and cognitive functions, and new tasks that have a cerebellar contribution are discovered on a regular basis. Simultaneously,…
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