Intriguing post. I don't agree with everything Munger says, nor want to discuss specific points that seem to be of personal nature. But some of his observations about #metasci are on point, such as the distinction btw wanting to persuade colleagues vs imposing how everyone needs to do science. >
Lakens and the Second Reformation
New piece on our deepest motivations: open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
On status vs power as first movers
Prefaces of books I probably will never write. Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn Best phrase: "Two brotherâs wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked." open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
Preface B
Prefaces of books I probably will not write. Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy. Best phrase: âThey clearly never met me with my motherâ. open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
Preface A
Thanks for sharing, many discoveries for me here! Can I propose Nguyen's "Games as the art of agency"? And maybe my own recent work on Order & change in art: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
đOut now: A new open access publication in Phil. Trans. B with Jacopo Frascaroli and Karl Friston. We examine why we are grasped by art, and we end up exploring the essential tension in living beings between order and change. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Check out the special issue!
Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable? Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Predictive-coding has justifiably become a highly influential theory in Neuroscience. However, the possibility of its unfalsifiability has been raisedâŚ
Yes! That would be worth digging into. The counts are normalized by nb of books published, but I also had no idea that the concept is that old. Its use might have morphed though. There is some history in this excellent analysis: harpers.org/archive/2021... Not nearly going that far back though.
Selling the story of disinformation