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Thanks to Madhur Mangalam for the great conversation on his BeyondPhrenology podcast, discussing my book and the work of Howard Pattee.
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Dennis P Waters
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Dennis P Waters
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Author, *Behavior and Culture in One Dimension*; Founder, https://t.co/vFmKjY1CBJ, https://t.co/UGdugZRhIq, https://t.co/8zXuzpeFWF, https://t.co/5Qmx9GDQZV; Lichenologist, Rutgers CHRB & DEENR
Lawrence Township, NJ Katılım Şubat 2009
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Do you love nature? Then you'll love Binghamton! Check out these outdoor spots in upstate New York, all less than a 30-minute drive from #CCS2026!
They're all perfect for hiking 🥾, biking 🚵, camping 🏕️… you name it! Trust us, the fall scenery will take your breath away. 😉🍁
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In a previous era of Minor League Baseball that dog herding the sheep would have been ridden by a monkey in a cowboy hat. #iykyk
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Turns out a foul ball can be a wolf in sheep's clothing 🐑 @GoEmperors is bringing the herd mentality on Agriculture Night:
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I carry a copy of Syntactic Structures with me at all times so I do not stray from the straight and narrow path
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"Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, which I'm sure generativists have read."
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In his new book, Romain Brette pushes back against theories that describe the brain as a “biological computer.” In this excerpt, he challenges equating brain evolution with programming, and the universality of neural network models.
thetransmitter.org/theoretical-ne…
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@IvyHoopsOnline Wonder if the threat of her leaving gave Lehigh an extra incentive....
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Addie Micir was considered an obvious candidate to take over for Carla Berube at Princeton. Lehigh and Micir appear to have committed to each other long-term instead.
Lehigh Women's Basketball@LehighWBB
Head Coach @amicker23 Is Here To Stay!
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@dpwaters "Behavior and Culture in One Dimension" (2021) is underrated. It helps show how behavior, normativity, and culture cannot be flattened to state transitions without losing the organism-environment unity that makes them intelligible. An excellent intro to biosemiotics!/9
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Journey with writer @laxmevy and a team of researchers through the Arctic tundra as they sample some of Earth’s rarest and most restricted fungal species — underground wisps that govern life aboveground. This story was supported by @PulitzerCenter. quantamagazine.org/an-arctic-road…
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Another crucial distinction is that computation has what Vygotsky called "deliberate semantics," i.e., meaning is assigned from the outside. "X" is whatever we say it is. In living systems meaning emerges through evolution, development, and behavior.
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At minimum, computation is a reliable transformation of symbols according to a finite set of rules. That already makes it narrower than "whatever happens in the universe." A rock falls, a cell metabolizes, a storm forms. Not all causation is computation./2 complexitycat.org/posts/what-com…
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@langofmind Having trouble imagining how, without sensation, one would know how to recognize food and water, or decide what to mate with.
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Interesting thought experiment, but several misconceptions.
1. Sensation is not the same as emotion. Almost impossible to imagine an organism that can survive and reproduce without sensation (input from sense organs). Certainly they couldn't describe things like planets
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Imagine a hypothetical intelligent species that is incapable of sensations. They are born, need food and water, reproduce, and die like we do, but none of these provide them with any sensations whatsoever. Let's assume as axiomatic that, despite lacking feelings as motivators, this species nonetheless chooses to exist, have children, and thus exist over time. And during that time they develop a language that is strictly logical. Because they lack any emotions to distract them from consistent logically coherent thinking, they develop a language as perfectly consistent and coherent as our model logics and mathematics. Their language is pure math, and they use it every day. Now, it'd be absolutely absurd to say that, for instance, when they describe a planet revolving around a star, that their descriptions actually supervene on the planet and star themselves, that their descriptions are somehow more "primary" or "real" or "true" than the actual planet and star observed. So then why do so many people think mathematics is anything more than just a language, nothing more and nothing less?
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A reflection on Carla Berube's @PrincetonWBB departure and the state of the program from @gwynnitas: wp.me/p5jSrX-5IO
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@gwynnitas @PrincetonWBB Hope they consider Lauren Gosselin for the HC job
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Big news for @PrincetonWBB and it isn’t good. We’ve lost our head coach to Northwestern. History repeats. Congrats to Carla Berube. Orange and Black Nation is grateful for your years of outstanding service . Wishing you and your family the best of luck in Evanston.
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RIP Robert Trivers - the Einstein of evolutionary biology and one the greatest thinkers of our age.
Among other things, Trivers came up with parental investment theory, reciprocal altruism theory, and parent-offspring conflict theory.
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Behold the inner channel of the nuclear pore complex in all its messy glory. New high-def microscopy is revealing its intricacies like never before. @yasemin_sap reports: quantamagazine.org/disorder-drive…
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@MattFriedmanNJ @SDD84x2020 @axelspringer @MathiasDoepfner On the other hand, "DON'T EVEN ASK WHAT THE BROWNIES ARE UP TO" is Top Ten.
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@SDD84x2020 @axelspringer @MathiasDoepfner Thought better of getting into it at the time. It’s factual. But feel free to try to cancel me.
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The teachers union needs to be more sensitive about language that downplays historical atrocities, says senator with groundhog named after confederate general.
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I'm with Waddington: "Human language must have been produced by evolution. Evolutionary forces—and that means natural selection, the only evolutionary force we know of—could have produced it only if it produced effects. And a coding of natural phenomena into symbols, into a language, could only produce effects if the basic character of language is to be imperative, not indicative; to express, in symbolic form, commands, instructions, programmes—not statements."
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