Christopher J Stevens
@metaphysiology.bsky.social
Lecturer/researcher in phil & neuro.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
It's not quite as clean cut as that, given certain dependent relationships which "science" refuses to end, despite myriad empirical reasons to do just that, including but not limited to reasons related to anti-science movements:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX#Co...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX#Co...
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It's not quite as clean cut as that, given certain dependent relationships which "science" refuses to end, despite myriad empirical reasons to do just that, including but not limited to reasons related to anti-science movements:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX#Co...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX#Co...
Mildly interesting curio: in Sherrington's 1906 work, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, the bibliography appears to be ordered chronologically.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Mildly interesting curio: in Sherrington's 1906 work, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System, the bibliography appears to be ordered chronologically.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Same person's suggestion for making the guitar more accessible:
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Same person's suggestion for making the guitar more accessible:
Dedication from O'Keefe & Nadel's 1978 classic, 'The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.' Both studied under Hebb at McGill University. Hebb references Tolman several times in his 1949 'The Organization of Behavior'. Abe Black was a hippocampus research collaborator who died, in 1978 also, at only 49.
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Dedication from O'Keefe & Nadel's 1978 classic, 'The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.' Both studied under Hebb at McGill University. Hebb references Tolman several times in his 1949 'The Organization of Behavior'. Abe Black was a hippocampus research collaborator who died, in 1978 also, at only 49.
Submitted thesis #2 y'day. #1, in cog neuro, was initially intended as a kind of "fact-finding mission" detour away from phil. A herculean undertaking but at the end I was very satisfied with it. Tragi-ironically, switching back to phil in French was so cog tough, I can't now say same bout this one🫥
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Submitted thesis #2 y'day. #1, in cog neuro, was initially intended as a kind of "fact-finding mission" detour away from phil. A herculean undertaking but at the end I was very satisfied with it. Tragi-ironically, switching back to phil in French was so cog tough, I can't now say same bout this one🫥
"But one man had seen it all coming..."
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"But one man had seen it all coming..."
This, but it's the library in hell and me saying: "Oh, man! All the notes are *endnotes*! They thought of *everything*!"
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This, but it's the library in hell and me saying: "Oh, man! All the notes are *endnotes*! They thought of *everything*!"
The only thing Bernard Henri-Levy has to fear is receiving an n-th cream tart to the face. Or maybe he's on high alert for cream cheese bagels!
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The only thing Bernard Henri-Levy has to fear is receiving an n-th cream tart to the face. Or maybe he's on high alert for cream cheese bagels!
Sure it was a robber baron who wrote the literal gospel on philanthropy:
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Sure it was a robber baron who wrote the literal gospel on philanthropy:
The Venn diagram of 'What Would Jesus Do?' and 'What Would Enoch Burke Do?'
October 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Venn diagram of 'What Would Jesus Do?' and 'What Would Enoch Burke Do?'
Happy belated birthday Fred!
This appeared in my timeline and, presumably since I'm working on him atm, it instantly struck me how ironically Baconian a statement it is. Then again, already in Nietzsche's day, science had drifted away from Baconian concerns about idola mentis, aka cognitive biases.
This appeared in my timeline and, presumably since I'm working on him atm, it instantly struck me how ironically Baconian a statement it is. Then again, already in Nietzsche's day, science had drifted away from Baconian concerns about idola mentis, aka cognitive biases.
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Happy belated birthday Fred!
This appeared in my timeline and, presumably since I'm working on him atm, it instantly struck me how ironically Baconian a statement it is. Then again, already in Nietzsche's day, science had drifted away from Baconian concerns about idola mentis, aka cognitive biases.
This appeared in my timeline and, presumably since I'm working on him atm, it instantly struck me how ironically Baconian a statement it is. Then again, already in Nietzsche's day, science had drifted away from Baconian concerns about idola mentis, aka cognitive biases.
Is there a soundbite of her "congratulating" them? In the tv spot from the time she says "Is it the start of a new dawn? I don't think so." In general, her positions at the time strike me as being more nuanced than she is given credit for. Maybe I'm being too charitable. Maybe I've missed things.
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Is there a soundbite of her "congratulating" them? In the tv spot from the time she says "Is it the start of a new dawn? I don't think so." In general, her positions at the time strike me as being more nuanced than she is given credit for. Maybe I'm being too charitable. Maybe I've missed things.
This YouGov survey plots voting against wealth & education. As wealth increases, so does trend to vote Remain. As level of education increases, so does trend to vote Remain. That is what I refer to as the empirical wealth/opportunity inequality question
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/EU...
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/EU...
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This YouGov survey plots voting against wealth & education. As wealth increases, so does trend to vote Remain. As level of education increases, so does trend to vote Remain. That is what I refer to as the empirical wealth/opportunity inequality question
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/EU...
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/EU...
Paywalls generate three things: private corporate profit, frustration of public curiosity, and endless irony at the interface of both via the medium of literal price-tags on "the divide between science and the public", the proceeds of which benefit neither science nor the public 🤓
October 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Paywalls generate three things: private corporate profit, frustration of public curiosity, and endless irony at the interface of both via the medium of literal price-tags on "the divide between science and the public", the proceeds of which benefit neither science nor the public 🤓
See these pics btw?
October 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
See these pics btw?
Israel maintains collective punishment & totalitarian control as core policies with respect to Gaza.
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Israel maintains collective punishment & totalitarian control as core policies with respect to Gaza.
But you are not doing it. I believe Connolly was doing that. Look again, this time with a minimum of charity in your reading, at what she said on this precise point in the Oireachtas statement you seem to believe is damning of her:
October 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
But you are not doing it. I believe Connolly was doing that. Look again, this time with a minimum of charity in your reading, at what she said on this precise point in the Oireachtas statement you seem to believe is damning of her:
Shared with me by a graphic artist friend.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
![Screenshot of one section of comic from link:
Sparsely illustrated text which says:
"Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutrition.
[image of a plate of food stuff plus a floating sad blue emoji, pink heart, happy gold emoji, angry brown emoji]
That made sense to me.
Art feeds [written in pink with happy pink emoji below] my feelings [written in blue with sad blue emoji below].
And if that's the case,
consuming AI art is like
eating styrofoam."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwf3cqh3bolnpooqayufkmlh/bafkreiclavxlld247c2ktoq25uxfij53boh2f7eekzzq6qqfg2jthy23ge@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Shared with me by a graphic artist friend.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Different ways of framing the question give rise to different results, but the trend towards more support for reunification as time progresses seems quite robust. Nothing wrong with hoping that trend continues, or even accelerates, given that there's nothing morally objectionable about the end goal.
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Different ways of framing the question give rise to different results, but the trend towards more support for reunification as time progresses seems quite robust. Nothing wrong with hoping that trend continues, or even accelerates, given that there's nothing morally objectionable about the end goal.
No, you got snide and heartless. Or rather, you allowed your snideness to reveal your heartlessness. I do in fact engage with every homeless person who solicits me, whether that be with money, food, or, as the case may be, a genuine, "Sorry, I've nothing on me this time, all the best." Always have:
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
No, you got snide and heartless. Or rather, you allowed your snideness to reveal your heartlessness. I do in fact engage with every homeless person who solicits me, whether that be with money, food, or, as the case may be, a genuine, "Sorry, I've nothing on me this time, all the best." Always have:
Directly à propos, when Connolly referred to what had already been said by "other colleagues on the left", she was referring in part to what Richard Boyd-Barrett, also not shying away from being blunt about Russian aggression, had said just a few minutes before her:
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Directly à propos, when Connolly referred to what had already been said by "other colleagues on the left", she was referring in part to what Richard Boyd-Barrett, also not shying away from being blunt about Russian aggression, had said just a few minutes before her: