Dirk Gütlin

This is all I have left to say to X ✌️

Holy shit! This is the No Kings protest in deep red Idaho. 😳👇

WHAT A WASTE‼️ DRAFT DODGER LOW ENERGY PARADE‼️ Meanwhile MILLIONS ATTEND THE NO KINGS DAY PROTESTS‼️

The drone guy...so hilarious...#TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #trumpFailure

This is by far the best montage I've seen of Trump's parade. 😂

I can't stop reading the Grok reply page. It's going schizo and can't stop talking about white genocide in South Africa. x.com/grok/with_repl…

Elon Musk has spread false claims about 'white genocide' in South Africa, and now his chatbot Grok keeps bringing it up on X. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

@FordP100 @BrainyMarsupial Ooof. Ofc, "physicalism" can explain this. It's called complex systems science. You know what neurons are? Yep they are cells. Like these cells here. Why should these not act in complex ways? It's literally just the laws of nature and you make some spiritual festival out of it.

That’s precisely the point—you’re still interpreting “mechanism” through a 19th-century lens. Yes, the components are physical. No one’s denying calcium ions or molecular structures. But what’s emerging here is organization, integration, and purposive behavior that’s not reducible to those parts. Mutual information, long-range correlation, modular structure—these aren’t material objects. They’re patterns of meaning. Physicalism can’t explain why or how functionally distributed coherence arises spontaneously across non-neural tissues. It can describe the flux, but it can’t account for the form. Saying “it’s just physical” misses the real insight: something is using matter to express intentionality. If all you see are atoms bouncing, you’re looking at code and calling it sand.

This study delivers a precise blow to reductionist materialism by proving that aneural tissues—like frog skin cells—exhibit intelligent, structured behavior once thought to belong only to brains. Using information theory, the researchers mapped how these cells coordinate through calcium signaling. What they found shatters the neuron-centric paradigm: non-neural cells form dynamic networks with hubs, long-range correlations, and modular communities that reorganize after injury. This is not chemical reflex—it’s information integration, revealing memory, responsiveness, and systemic adaptation. Reductionism insists that intelligence “emerges” only from complex neuronal assemblies. But here we see coherent informational behavior in simple tissues, implying that intelligence is not an emergent byproduct—it’s a fundamental principle of biological organization. The cells aren’t just reacting to forces—they’re participating in relational coherence, often across distances that defy local mechanistic explanation. This undermines the materialist belief that causality requires direct physical contact. Instead, it points to non-local, functional relationships—governed not by mechanics alone, but by patterns of meaning. Life, it turns out, is not a machine; it is a network of intelligent coordination, one that can’t be explained by particles alone. In short: the body thinks. The skin listens. Cells remember. And materialism can no longer account for it. This work doesn’t just challenge the idea that neurons are the seat of mind. It challenges the idea that mind is reducible at all. It opens the door to a new understanding: that intelligence is woven into the very fabric of life, and that biology is not just governed by matter—but by meaning.

@fabworks_guy @Firechyld How did it get pulled out of context? 😅

@Firechyld Getting pulled way outta context and trolls visiting our website and filling up our support inbox...

@fabworks_guy This you bro? Whyd you delete it?

Are there still scientists using X for science? Just come over already ;) timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domina…

If you keep using #Twitter, be aware that the content pushed to your feed is extremely distorted towards right-wing/anti-immigrant ideology. This paper provides clear evidence for that: "Political Biases on X before the 2025 German Federal Election" arxiv.org/abs/2503.02888

I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US. Now let's see if he really believes in free speech.

Expect a deafening silence from our billionaire-owned governments. They ignored 2024 shattering 1.5C. They ignored January reaching 1.75C. They’re ignoring imminent AMOC collapse. They’ll ignore this. It’s not hyperbole, we are governed by psychopaths on track to kill us all.

#Preprint alert! 🧠💻 Ever wondered how well Predictive Coding can be implemented in Artificial Neural Nets? Do they really learn as the theory predicts? In our new preprint with @auksz, we test two PC algorithms & find that not all behave as expected! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

HUGE: open source version of openai operator that actually works Run AI Agent in your browser

Many Americans apparently believe they are engaged in some kind of civilizational battle against China. I really don't think that's the case. The global fracture line is autocracy vs democracy, and the US will find itself increasingly aligned with (and allied with) China & Russia in that regard

Oh my god x.com/i/grok/share/E…

I do not write posts on X. I tweet links to posts on other platforms. I like and retweet (occasionally) I comment on friends' tweets (rarely) Follow me on...⬇️⬇️⬇️

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at georgemonbiot.bsky.social. Since Elon Musk bought this site, he has transformed it from one on which millions could converse as equals into his personal megaphone. Now the world’s richest man uses it to wage his class war, transferring blame for the ills of capitalism onto vulnerable minorities, boosting the grimmest and most antisocial accounts while suppressing the humane voices with whom he disagrees. He has used X not only to subvert the election for the US presidency, but to create a role for himself in US politics which, though he has never stood for election and would not be eligible, grants him immense power over the citizens of that nation. This site has been used as a tool to help replace democracy with oligarchy. Musk claimed, on purchasing the platform, to be a “free speech absolutist”. He is in fact a prolific censor, suspending dissenting accounts and using lawsuits to shut down free speech, while employing an algorithm to increase the reach of his own posts 1,000-fold. He cannot abide a level playing field. He has permitted or encouraged the growth of a ghost army of bots and trolls to degrade the experience of all who disagree with him. Their task is not just to abuse opponents but, perhaps more importantly, to drown intelligent conversation with a tsunami of stupidity. They respond to data with denial, expertise with execration, insight with insult, humour with hatred and thinking with thuggery. They suck the meaning out of everything. The stupidity trends in one direction: in the service of economic power. It is a weapon used to suppress the possibility of a better world. Many years ago, when I lived in Brazil, I learnt that the military dictatorship had actively sought to suppress educational levels in schools, as it saw a well-informed population as a political threat. A confused, distracted and ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Now this counter-educational model is being rolled out worldwide, and Elon Musk is its primary sponsor. I stayed here long after I first considered leaving, as I believed it was wrong to cede the ground to an oligarch and his minions. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers this platform. We can no longer build anything of value here. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy. On Bluesky I can be the person I want to be, a better person than I am on X, where it is almost impossible not to get dragged into the mud. I feel I can be understood because I am not confronting a deliberate effort to misunderstand me. So I can speak more quietly. There is no guarantee that Bluesky will not also one day be monetised by its owners or captured by self-serving billionaires. But for now it remains a place in which interesting and enjoyable conversations can be had, kindness can be shown to strangers and a better world can be imagined. I hope to see you there.