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Yunus Şahin
@herrbokologist.bsky.social
I drink and I know things.

IU Ling '20 / MA at Boun CogSci '24 / MA at Tartu Semiotics '27

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Join us at our first Cognitive Webinar of the year! Tomorrow we will listen to Sophie Slaats (PhD) from the Université de Genève and we'll talk about language and brain!

Registration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Beynimizde dil nasıl çalışıyor? Dilin nörobilimini Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Melis Çetinçelik hocamızdan dinliyoruz. Kayıtlar sürüyor, seni de bekliyoruz!

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Nasıl dil konuşuyoruz? Nasıl dil öğreniyoruz? Beynimizde neler oluyor? Maastricht Üniversitesi'nden Dr. Melis Çetinçelik'ten dinliyoruz! Kayıt linki yorumlarda 👇
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Join us on November 17 for an insightful talk by Dr. Jedediah Allen on how Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory continues to shape our understanding of the human mind.

More info and registration link is below 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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"Herbart’ın yaklaşımı, daha sonra psikofizik, bilişsel modelleme ve zihne işlemlemesel yaklaşımların gelişimini önceleyen bir çizgi oluşturdu."

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November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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"Herbart’s vision of psychology as a formal science, grounded in mathematical relations, anticipated later developments in psychophysics, cognitive modeling, and computational approaches to the mind."

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November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I’ve been working on an essay but as I tried to avoid being misunderstood, it kept expanding until it became what is now a full paper draft. It starts off with a simple but unsettling question: what makes psychotherapy psychotherapy? 1/n

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Essay | What's Wrong With Psychotherapy and How to Replace It?: Radically Embodied Therapy (RET)
Essay | Yunus Şahin - Cognitive Science & Philosophy | Psychotherapy lacks clear, observable criteria for what makes it therapeutic, a problem revealed by the Nonchalant Therapist Thought Experiment. ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host @sophieslaats.bsky.social , a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève.

Registration link is below 👇

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November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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In her talk we will explore recent advances in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, focusing on how the brain processes linguistic structure and statistical regularities.

For more info and regsitration: cog-ist.com/etkinlik-duy...
From Sentences to Words, and Back Again: Statistical and Structural Relations in the Neural Signal – Sophie Slaats (PhD) – Cognitive Webinar #19  - CogIST
In the first Cognitive Webinar of this year, we are excited to host Sophie Slaats, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Genève. In her talk, titled “From Sentences to Words, and Back Again: ...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We are delighted to open our new series, Analysis by Synthesis, with a talk by Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu), one of the leading figures in contemporary biosemiotics.

You can find the registration link below! 👇
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It can sometimes be difficult for a person or an organization to evaluate their own work from an outside perspective, especially as time goes by. Would you help us see our strengths and weaknesses? :)

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November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.
If people actually understood how willing our government is to go to war with its own people simply for demanding equal rights, I think a lot more of us would be ready for war.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's somewhat common to attribute 'anticipation' to systems relying on dynamical systems theory and complexity theory, and later even grounding representationality on this basis.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's not that an important discussion, but for instance, in a footnote in Clark Glymour's book The Mind's Arrow, he refers to Carnap as 'actually the first cognitive scientist' because he used formal mathematical tools to explain how the mind structures and represents data from the external world.
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I was already feeling somewhat unease with the interventionist accounts of causation for a while now that I couldn’t quite pin down. It’s precisely because of that, somewhere in the thesis, I felt the need to drop a note saying ‘compatible with interventionist theories, but doesn’t entail them’.
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I wonder if the new mechanists, had they named it something like "New Structuralism" without any reference to 'mechanism', and said exactly the same things, would the dynamicists today be raising the same criticisms they voice?
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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It's funny to me that this has basically led to a search for "is there a culture group that does not do this?" and so far the answer seems genuinely to be "no".
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
'Learning' out 'adaptive flexibility' in.
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If psychotherapy were being constructed today rather than 100-150 years ago, a concept like the 'therapeutic relationship' would not be at its core. This is because the concept is open to both theoretical and practical abuse.
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Genocentric biology appeals to such 'long-distance causal' relationships, and is so reliant on teleological concepts like coding, storage, information, content, etc., that it is not theoretically more 'robust' than the holistic approaches or vitalism it opposes.
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In the philosophy of mind, we often see functionalists claim that they differ from vitalists. This is incorrect. From the early to mid-20th century, some 'neo-vitalists' argued that life possesses a fundamentally distinct essence +
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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We’ve now completed six years on this journey that began with the goal of bringing cognitive scientists together and introducing cognitive science to broader audiences. 1/n
October 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"Introduced by Ian Goodfellow in 2014, GANs consist of two competing networks -one generating data and the other evaluating it-whose interaction yields increasingly realistic results."

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October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"Ian Goodfellow tarafından 2014’te geliştirilen GAN’lar, biri veri üreten diğeri bu veriyi değerlendiren iki ağın rekabeti üzerine kuruludur ve bu sayede giderek daha gerçekçi sonuçlar elde edilir."

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October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM