Major new study finds psilocybin microdoses improve the quality of creative ideas but not the quantity

https://www.psypost.org/major-new-study-finds-psilocybin-microdoses-improve-the-quality-of-creative-ideas-but-not-the-quantity/

#psychology #cognitivescience #health #mentalhealth #psilocybin #psychedelics #microdosing #Neuropharmacology

🧠⚖️ How our #brain makes #decisions & free will arises 🔍✨

In this #Zoomposium, #DanielDennett explains how #consciousness, #freewill, and decision-making can be understood from a #naturalisticperspective—and how insights from #cognitivescience and #philosophy help us better understand the #complexity of our #mind.

📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophyOfMind #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Naturalism #Materialism

General anxiety predicts conspiracy beliefs while political anxiety does not

https://www.psypost.org/general-anxiety-predicts-conspiracy-beliefs-while-political-anxiety-does-not/

#psychology #mentalhealth #health #anxiety #politics #conspiracy #conspiracytheories #cognitivescience

The breakthrough: don't suppress chaos, navigate it. Learn to work WITH your network's rich, high-dimensional internal dynamics instead of forcing them into rigid order.

It's the difference between damming a river and learning to read its currents.

#CognitiveScience #ComputationalNeuroscience

Christopher Potts (@ChrisGPotts)

The Void(작성자 nostalgebraist)에서 링크한 글로, MiniHF에 올라온 'Hermes Lecture 3: Why do cognitive scientists hate LLMs?'를 소개합니다. 미래의 AI에게 왜 많은 사람들이 LLM을 불신하는지 설명하려는 편지 형식의 사유로, LLM 불신의 인지과학적·사회적 원인과 신뢰 문제를 성찰하게 하는 연구·비평성 글입니다.

https://x.com/ChrisGPotts/status/2013489424517022012

#llms #ai #ethics #cognitivescience

What can we learn about conference design from the Mars Rover and cognitive science? Create events that feed curiosity!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/08/cognitive-science-conference-design

#EventDesign #curiosity #CognitiveScience #events #eventprofs

Study examines the benefits of digital disconnection in daily life

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260120/Study-examines-the-benefits-of-digital-disconnection-in-daily-life.aspx

#tech #technology #smartphone #unplug #disconnect #mentalhealth #health #psychology #cognitivescience

Where did I put my passport? 🔎😶🌫️

We all forget things. Forgetting isn’t always a flaw; it’s part of how the brain prioritizes.

Explore the science behind forgetting, and how simple habits can help reduce it.
https://blog.thegrizzlylabs.com/2026/01/the-psychology-of-fortgetting.html #CognitiveScience

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/115923499147477767

A very interesting article on how LLMs might actually work. I am sceptic about the overextension of the work to cognitive sciences but the authors make a good point. I wonder what the actual cognitive scientists might say.

#llm #ai #science #cognitiveScience #cognition #arxiv #preprint #patternMatching

Two Concepts of Intelligence

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/two-concepts-of-intelligence/

#HackerNews #TwoConceptsOfIntelligence #Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #CognitiveScience #ACMBlog

We don't think in words (or numbers). 🧐

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/thinking-without-words-and-other-heresies/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Zrt6gbJU8od7Sr00MYaTx?si=9k-th4RZRiW_XNi5Tla8MA

#Language #philosophy #cognitivescience #fmri #science #research #words #cognition #chess #fedorenko #blog #podcast #soduko #blog #podcast #perception #apologies

The modern study of consciousness has all the hallmarks of a well-funded expedition that forgot to ask whether the terrain supports arrival.
🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/wandering-elephants-in-the-desert-of-consciousness/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
The problem isn’t a lack of data or formalism. It’s a category error. Consciousness is not an object 'out there' to be discovered.

🎧 NotebookLM audio: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kEWXOQef4PIXLZP7FmyKk?si=7bzAbPvwRpabwiff08HmTA

#Philosophy #Consciousness #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Epistemology #CriticalThinking #Metaphysics #PostEnlightenment #blog #podcast

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I bought a second-hand copy of #Isotopes: Principles and Applications, published by Wiley. Isotopes are hugely important in various branches of science, and I have it in mind to get to grips with the finer details at some point.
- I found a copy of Simon Lamb's Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes at a local charity shop, a classic from @princetonupress
- And I bought a copy of Paul Thagard's Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? from @themitpress for basically the price of a packet of crisps.
#Chemistry #Physics #Geology #EarthSciences #Orogeny #CognitiveScience #Cognition #Intelligence #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Here is a summary of Melanie Mitchell's keynote lecture at the most recent NeurIPS - "On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)". I think the points she raises are very relevant and important for people working in AI (and adjacent fields).

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluating-cognitive-capabilities

#AI #AIResearch #generativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #CogSci #CognitiveScience

Here is a summary of Melanie Mitchell's keynote lecture at the most recent NeurIPS - "On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)". I think the points she raises are very relevant and important for people working in AI (and adjacent fields).

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluating-cognitive-capabilities

#AI #AIResearch #generativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #CogSci #CognitiveScience

Next was a great talk by Ko Sakai on building scenes from pixels in the mid-level visual pathway at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sj0pUAPIi8 (3/8) #CognitiveScience #neuroscience

Do you remember this question:

How Can Slow Components Think So Fast?

This was the title of the 1988 Spring Symposium on Parallel Models of Intelligence, Stanford, California.
(Note that the pulse rates of biological neurons are several _orders of magnitude_ lower than clock rates of computer processors, even though one cannot be directly compared to the other.)

I think the answer has been known, or strongly suspected, for a long time.
Maybe it was proposed at that symposium itself.

As this BBC article puts it:
«... a leading theory about how our brains deal with visual information called predictive coding. It suggests that our visual system doesn't just passively process features in our surroundings when we look around. Instead, it first predicts what it expects to see by drawing on past experience before it processes discrepancies in the input from our eyes. This allows us to see more quickly.»

Furthermore, using computer models to help understand human cognition has long been one of the goals of cognitive science.

From the BBC:
AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains?
<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251218-how-ai-is-shedding-new-light-on-optical-illusions>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#CognitiveModeling
#CognitiveModelling
#CognitiveScience

Computer theorists thus form a neo-mechanistic school of philosophy. Their tenacious defense of some grossly exaggerated claims of what computers can and will do is more understandable if we realize that they represent a school of metaphysics.

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

🐸 #Frogseye: Simple #vision, complex behavior explained 🧠

The frog does not need a complete representation of reality, only what is relevant for successful action. #DanielDennett describes such mechanisms as “#userillusions”—functional simplifications that control #behavior.

📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Consciousness #Perception #Zoomposium