Àlex Gómez-Marín
@behaviOrganisms
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Theoretical physicist by training, neuroscientist by chance and necessity, and Bergsonian at heart. Husband and dad.
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Metaphors Neuroscientists Live By:
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Neuroscientists trying to justify why they will continue to submit their work to Nature Neuroscience:
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"We need more
@TOEwithCurt
,
@Nalhek_Morgan
,
@CloserToTruth
, and
@EricRWeinstein
, and fewer crabby Dawkins, trickster Randis, and cocksure deGrasse Tysons. Preaching dogma in the name of science is a dagger at the heart of society."
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Some people can think for themselves, and can do it well! That's perhaps why
@erikphoel
ended up leaving academia and also why a hundred and so prominent academics can make a fool of themselves:
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THE STAIRWAY TO TRANSHUMANIST HEAVEN:
A pseudo-religion dressed up as technoscience promises human transcendence at the cost of extinction -- my review of Ray Kurzweil's new book:
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We are delighted to have
@Liad_Mudrik
giving a special session at our THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS online series entitled "Comparing and Testing Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness". Check it out (there's more)!
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Next week I will talk about "the consciousness of neuroscience", Time & Mind at this fantastic conference at
@EssentiaFounda1
:
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A truly memorable encounter with neuro-consciousness leader
@anilkseth
enacting the true spirit of intellectual collegiality. 🙏🧠
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Realizing the relevance of Relevance realization with the sharp, deep, and kind
@vervaeke_john
⚡️
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Are memories stored in brains? -- I'm blessed to entertain the idea with the legendary Rupert Sheldrake:
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On the need of PLURALISM & INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY in consciousness studies. My recent piece for
@IAI_TV
:
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Every gene U take
Every plot U make
Every cause U claim
Every game U play
I'll be funding U.
Every single day
Every vial U shake
Every thought U flake
Every day U waste
I'll be funding U.
Oh, can't U see
Science belongs to me?
How my poor brain aches
...
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reviewing a grant application: the "deliverables" are fucking risible ("N research manuscripts") and the "outcome indicators" are fucking absurd ("X citations in Y years"). Does anybody believe this bullshit? Why do we play along? This falsity is a travesty that drains our minds.
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(1) Are PhD Students students? (or cheap workforce...) (2) Are Principal Investigators investigators? (or fund raisers...) (3) Are Journal Editors editors? (or orthodoxy gatekeepers...)
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"CAUSALITY is the killer test for science." Well, physics had gone deeper: the apple falls "because" of SYMMETRY reasons. Yet, biology, producing hardly no novel theoretical ideas for 100y, has surrendered to vague weak notions of mechanism & information.
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Seriously laughing about literal mindedness with Monty Python's John Cleese 😜
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Stay tuned for our Cosyne 2019 Workshop "Caus(yn)e: CAUSAL Systems Neuroscience" that
@KordingLab
and myself have put together. More soon...
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"What happens with the mind when the brain dies?" Recent paper on my own NDE experience + some thoughts on the nature of the mind-brain relationship (if you work on the life & mind sciences and have had one NDE or similar, please contact me privately):
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What an honour to talk for almost 3 hours with
@EssentiaFounda1
about Impossible Science, The Edges of Consciousness, and Minds beyond Brains:
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Working on this UAP taxonomy (and more) with
@TOEwithCurt
! Please let us know what we missed and how to improve it. More soon... 👻🥷🧚🏻♀️
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So very honored to praise David Bentley Hart's new incredibly deep book!
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My review of The Blind Spot:
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How cool that
@AnnaCiaunica
is also presenting at our THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS online series on "The bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life". You can register here:
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Finally... out! Metaphors neuroscientists live by:
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Today is my 1st day officially as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow.
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"When it comes to mainstream consciousness studies, the clothes have no emperor." 🤫
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"We found that supporting a specific theory [of consciousness] can be predicted solely from methodological choices, irrespective of findings."
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How to dress impossibly 😜, with super-humanities hero Jeff Kripal!
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"The F problem of consciousness", my online seminar next Wed 15th at 3pm (Spain time) via Abstract:
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Today I "saw" atoms!, captured by a 3.5 million microscope! But, I wonder, aren't they actually also affordances...
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"Materialists' best guess?", my review of
@anilkseth
's Being You - A New Science of Consciousness. Enjoy:
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"Making life & mind as clear as possible, but not clearer", my BBS commentary on Bruineberg et al.'s article on Friston's FEP:
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Scientific publishing is a scam and a morally bankrupt enterprise.
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MOST READ at eNeuro!! "The Consciousness of Neuroscience" 🧠🤌🏽👻👊🏼
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Playing magic tricks to deep neural networks untangles human deception (our "DeepLabMagic" little piece; thanks
@TrackingActions
@TrackingPlumes
@DeepLabCut
!):
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Join me online March 29-31 for the Metaphysics and the Matter with Things conference with Iain McGilchrist from the Center for Process Studies & the California Institute of Integral Studies! Learn more & get tickets here:
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TSC2023 participants voting for "the most convincing solution to the problem of consciousness" (note: science the consensus of experts, but not democratic ;):
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This coming Tuesday (at 6pm CEST) I will be discussing FLATLAND, an incredible 96-page book published 140 years ago! Register here:
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Honored to participate in this event, exactly 100 years after the (in)famous clash that altered the relationship between science and philosophy.
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I'll be discussing about "the consciousness of neuroscience" on Saturday 6th November, here:
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THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF NEUROSCIENCE, published 2 weeks ago and already downloaded more than a 1000 times:
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As my friend Iain put it: we must transcend the duality between duality and non-duality...
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Really looking forward to hosting
@JohannesKleiner
presenting a "Structural Turn" perspective at our bran-new THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS online series:
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The real problem of consciousness is “how the brain as a perceptual object within consciousness relates to the brain as part of the embodied conditions for consciousness”:
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Investigando "Los Márgenes de la Consciencia" desde la física y las neurociencias -- este viernes en directo a las 8pm (hora de España):
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For me, being a physicist turned neuroscientist, listening to the brilliance of thought and speech of
@sfiscience
's David Krakauer is a double treat because it really feels like John (
@blamlab
) talking about complexity science. Enjoy:
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Regreso al futuro de una nueva ciencia de la consciencia: 30 años sin Jacobo Grinberg:
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HISTORIA VIVA ("Living History"): próximo evento el 1 de Junio en el
@NeuroAlc
, con las ponencias del Prof. Puelles y del Prof. Belmonte. La historia de la neurociencia española contada en primera persona.
@Historia_SENC
@FENSorg
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Cancel culture, just landed in neuroscience (playing with 🔥)!
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And very intrigued to learn from
@mjdramstead
about "What (if anything) does the free energy principle teach us about consciousness?", also at our THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS online series:
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My recent conversation with Christof Koch:
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¿Qué pasa con la mente cuando el cerebro muere?
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"Even scientists who are critical of the emphasis on connectomics happily use the wiring diagram metaphor (e.g., Barack and Krakauer, 2021; Gomez-Marin, 2021)" 🙄🙃 A Brief History of Wires in the Brain: 👍
@matthewcobb
@blamlab
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¡Qué lujazo aparecer hoy en La Contra de La Vanguardia!
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About to go live at
@EssentiaFounda1
to talk about "The Consciousness of Neuroscience" at the Time & Mind conference:
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Stop tweeting that anti-IIT bullshit (ludicrous!) and read the first lines of Galileo's "The Assayer"...
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Next Tuesday at 7pm (Spain time) at
@neuromatch
watch our great
@mrzl29
convert
@DeepLabCut
into an artificial magic spectator to study human cognition. Tracking invisible coins (scoremaps):
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@KordingLab
Ultimately, the problem is what Whitehead called "the fallacy of misplaced concreteness" -- we end up taking spherical cows (markov blankets, etc) as concrete reality. Abstractions are great until you forget they are abstractions.
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Can I sell a Nature Neuroscience paper of mine as a Non-Fungible Token..? Academic science is in self-distruction mode, and some seem to enjoy from the captain control room as we (all) sink.
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Este libro es de los mejores que he leído -- habla de casi TODO como casi NUNCA se habla de ello...
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I can't believe we reached the last chapter of
@dr_mcgilchrist
's The Matter with Things: The Sense of the Sacred
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(1/2) MAKING LIFE & MIND AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT CLEARER: "Neuroscience needs theory. Ideas without data are blind & yet mechanisms without concepts are empty. Friston's free energy principle paradigmatically illustrates the power and pitfalls of current theoretical bio.."
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(1/2) by
@erikphoel
: "being a successful professor now-a-days means not just crafting your research so it will receive big governmental grants, but also being involved with the student body, doing extracurricular activities, volunteering, taking on a bunch of busywork like..."
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Oh yeah! Getting ready for something beautiful...
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Free Science in a Free Society: Celebrating Feyerabend’s Centennial -- with
@drvandanashiva
and myself, next Tuesday July 23:
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"Computational neuroscience needs theoretical ethology: correcting an anthropomorphic bias". My commentary on
@RomainBrette
's coding critique:
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Un honor ser ponente invitado en este precioso congreso donde hablaré sobre La Ciencia en los Márgenes de la Consciencia:
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Today
@dr_mcgilchrist
and I finished the recording of the last chapter of The Matter With Things -- what a delightful journey across more than a thousand pages that shall help heal the world and ourselves...
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