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Someone keeps reblogging early 2000s movie Peter Pan Captain Hook to my dash and now I’m thinkin about pirates....

#fuck!#it’s a great concept!#real fun stuff #especially like really elaborate pirates #good shit

I’m getting sick and it’s greeaaaatttt. Love it. Feels good.

#text #i wanna throw up #i keep getting cold then hot #real fun stuff

Riddle me this

The ex is so confusing. Where we last left things was him telling me he had feelings for me, me saying I was moving on, him kicking me out of the fantasy football league I was in with his friends.

Saturday night he's at the SAME bar we were at for my friend's birthday party with his friends. He doesn't say anything to me so I don't say anything to him.

Today he texts me about being in the other fantasy football league we were in together with some people from our hometown. Not only is he okay with me being in this one but is okay with me commishing it? Okay? That makes sense? Not.

Then he says "Surprised you didn't stop by and say hi on Saturday."

I said, "Yeah I'm surprised you didn't either!" and agreed to be commissioner again this year for this other league all in the same text to brush that first part over.

But it's true, he could have just as easily come and said hi. Why is it all on me? Because now I'm the bad guy. This sucks. It all sucks. Reopening the wound.

#fun stuff over here today guys #REAL FUN STUFF #what am i doing #the ex #relationships

you know what's fun? your parents sitting you down for a convo on where your life is going.

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Predictions, Bodies and Ecologies: New Directions for the Cognitive Sciences?

At one time, almost all research on cognition was conducted according to a dominant scientific paradigm. The heart of that paradigm was the idea that cognition is the formal manipulation of symbols – or computation. But even at the height of its influence, the idea that cognition is computation has had important detractors. Since at least the 1990’s, opponents of the computational model have grown in number and influence so much that very little research is now conducted explicitly within the framework of that model. Along the way, scientists have proposed new general theories, and philosophers have heralded paradigm shifts. However, no alternative model of cognition has enjoyed the widespread influence of the computational model that it was supposed to replace. Rather, the past 20 or so years have been witness to a prolonged search of model space, which has at times borne a closer resemblance to a paradigmatic war of succession, than a definitive taking of the throne.

Two frontrunners are now emerging from this process. These are 1) the predictive coding model, in which cognition is a form of implicit Bayesian hypothesis testing, and in which the mind/brain is made up of a structured hierarchy of Bayesian networks, and 2) the embodied/extended model, in which cognition is a form of dynamical stability that emerges from the interplay between organisms, their actions, and the environment. The aim of this workshop is to explore these models 1) from a more general perspective, 2) as they apply to explaining perception and action, and 3) in terms of how they can help to understand psychopathology.

cf: Predictive coding

Predictive coding is a unifying framework for understanding redundancy reduction and efficient coding in the nervous system. By transmitting only the unpredicted portions of an incoming sensory signal, predictive coding allows the nervous system to reduce redundancy and make full use of the limited dynamic range of neurons. Starting with the hypothesis of efficient coding as a design principle in the sensory system, predictive coding provides a functional explanation for a range of neural responses and many aspects of brain organization. The lateral and temporal antagonism in receptive fields in the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus occur naturally as a consequence of predictive coding of natural images. In the higher visual system, predictive coding provides an explanation for oriented receptive fields and contextual effects as well as the hierarchical reciprocally connected organization of the cortex. Predictive coding has also been found to be consistent with a variety of neurophysiological and psychophysical data obtained from different areas of the brain.

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