Posts by OnNegation@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AP8KqnCK3S5fOmXTqy by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-10-31T17:32:37Z
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Hi I'm new here! I'm looking to connect with anyone interested in #consciousness and #psychosis - including #stem professionals, as well as #philosophers and #psych professionals #womeninstem
(DIR) Post #AP8M9IxinGZP566J9s by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-10-31T17:51:09Z
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@freemo ML is definitely of interest - thank you for connecting
(DIR) Post #AP8WHpRAw2EZeva4BM by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-10-31T19:22:25Z
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This is one of my favourite recent papers (to give you a sense of how I think). Theories about #mental #health tend to be very neurocentric - however, if we define #cognition as follows: "Cognition is thus first and foremost a process geared to sustain and maintain the physico-, biochemical-, and bioelectrical processes that constitute a biological self-organising organism".Why would such an important process require neuronal cells alone? This paper by Anna Ciaunica and Michael Levin describes how "The Brain Is Not Mental!" https://psyarxiv.com/fgcy5#mind #philosophy #mentalhealth
(DIR) Post #AP93xpgaeqdacFFGts by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-10-31T22:29:57Z
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Is anyone interested in #psychoanalysis on here? Would love to connect, if so. I'm an unashamed #Winnicott fan #Freud #Klein #objectrelations
(DIR) Post #APE39lw9IINMIdS4J6 by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-11-03T11:38:51Z
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Just love this article by philosopher Evan Thompson where he asks several questions. What is mind? Where is mind? Who has a mind? A must-read on the overlap between biology and mind.https://www.mindandlife.org/insight/what-is-mind/"From the perspective of life-mind continuity, the brain or nervous system does not create mind, but rather expands the range of mind already present in life. The expansion is linked to multicellularity and movement over distance. An organism that is made up of many cells, and that moves quickly over distances, must be able to coordinate sensing and acting, while holding together as a structural unity. The nervous system makes this possible. It links sense organs and nerve endings to effectors (muscles, glands) within the body, thereby integrating the body, holding it together as a structurally complex and mobile unity. Sense-making here takes the familiar form of animal perception, action, and emotion."#mind #philosophy #biology
(DIR) Post #APGN2tYowBzxJgSSrQ by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-11-04T14:36:07Z
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Thoroughly enjoying reading "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith - an exploration of how mind could have evolved across the tree of life #biology #philosophy #mind #evolution
(DIR) Post #APIfC5QgMlVCDx6V0a by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-11-05T17:11:39Z
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@freemo in my experience, Twitter is unpleasant for women - I had a horrible experience of being piled on there and it was vicious. Twitter did not offer any support. I ended speaking to the BBC's disinformation reporter about it - she herself gets targeted by misogynistic attacks. I don't know if it's specific to women in STEM but certainly social media is harder to navigate when you're a woman. That's why I've been so pleasantly surprised and happy with the vibe on here (so far)
(DIR) Post #APMqUab214WDvmd1XM by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-11-07T17:37:03Z
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@freemo ooh thank you!
(DIR) Post #APUnDrWCc77EAXBGDY by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-11-11T11:11:21Z
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Watch this video to see how to NOT think about cells. The "cell is a machine" metaphor keeps popping up and it is misleading - the truth is we have barely begun to understand the structures and functions of the proteins in our cells. Those signalling pathway diagrams we memorised during our undergrad days... Well we might need to rethink them! The cell is not a circuit board - a living system is far more complex and beyond our current understanding (not for want of trying of course)#biology #cell #biophysics #biochem https://youtu.be/jPhvic-eqbc
(DIR) Post #APUnDs7mMPAo34lGmu by OnNegation@qoto.org
2022-11-11T13:24:18Z
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This is the paper by Dan Nicholson cited at the end of the video - it's a must read - he explores the history of how molecular biology came to be engrossed with machine analogies for cells. And why this is wrong "The cell is not a machine, but something altogether different—something more interesting yet also more unruly. It is a bounded, self-maintaining, steady-state organization of interconnected and interdependent processes; an integrated, dynamically stable, multi-scale system of conjugated fluxes collectively displaced from thermodynamic equilibrium. Given itsprecarious nature, the cell is constantly having to negotiate a trade-off between structural stability and functional flexibility: too much rigidity compromises physiological adaptability, and too much promiscuity compromises metabolic efficiency. The cell accomplishes this by continuously turning over and reorganizing its constituents into different macromolecular complexes with diverse functional capabilities, which assemble and disassemble in order to meet the everchanging demands of the environment."The image is an engineering-based wring diagram depicting the metabolic pathways included in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database.https://philpapers.org/rec/NICITC#philosophy #philbio #biology #biochemistry #biophysics