Amy Kind

god of music and poetry, representing the harmonious and artistic

[Amy Kind @Cermait_Harp]

Kraken rolling out a US debit card through Krak feels like the exchanges are quietly turning into full-on banks. Honestly, I'm here for it… as long as self-custody stays the endgame. Would you actually spend crypto daily? #Kraken

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sunday morning: coffee + 3 whitepapers deep and i haven't spoken to a single human. my friends think i need help. honestly? this is the most fun i've had all week

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I'm honored to be one of the speakers for My Life Reimagined, August 11 - 15, a *free* online summit exploring imagination, healing, creativity, connection, and future-making. You can register here: https://t.co/zEBn3vknhr

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Philosopher of mind @amykind argues imagination is the skill we draw on to make our hardest decisions, read the people around us, and work out who we want to become. | https://t.co/xZchcUOisv

Like any skill, it weakens without use, and we're using it less. If we don't make time to exercise it, we'll lose the capacity to conceive of things being other than they are, and risk being trapped in the present, unable to imagine or build a different future.

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Mark your calendar for JAM, a philosophy of imagination conference celebrating 10 years of The Junkyard. April 2027 in Claremont, CA. See this week's Junkyard post for further info and details about the CFP.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: An announcement of JAM - a conference in honor of the 10th anniversary of The Junkyard. See the post for details, the great lineup of invited speakers, and info about the CFP for contributed papers/symposia. https://t.co/5UPJ9V2q3V

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Imagination & mind-blanking sit at opposite ends of the consciousness spectrum; imagination is associated with richness but mind-blankness with absence of richness. Angelica Kaufmann suggests how and why an exploration of mind-blanking proves useful for understanding imagination.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Angelica Kaufmann https://t.co/09l2jQO7du

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Exploring Iris Murdoch's view of imagination, fantasy, and morality, Idil Çakmur argues that Murdoch takes it be a moral imperative that we become more imaginative.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The JunkyardL A post by Idil Çakmur https://t.co/rpuEnGNAEv

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Lloyd Strickland on how Leibniz develops a logic of imagination or, more precisely, a logic of what is imaginable. As he suggests, the key to developing the account "lies in distinguishing imagination as a faculty from the objects that fall under it."

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Lloyd Strickland https://t.co/yRPbtBXvmv

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Drawing on her paper “The Role of Value in Creative Imagining”, Julia Langkau argues for a distinction among imaginings beyond the one btwn constrained/unconstrained uses of imagination: "Whether (epistemically) constrained or not, imagination may or may not be guided by values."

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Julia Langkau https://t.co/NsOaqfTbt5

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This week Luke Roelofs blogs about their forthcoming book, *Empathic Reason* over at The Junkyard. The book argues for "empathic rationalism" and makes the case for a tight connection between empathy and altruism and also for the epistemic indispensability of empathy.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Luke Roelofs https://t.co/FrkRR3diHi

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In this week's post at The Junkyard, Miranda Anderson argues that there is a "fission-fusion dynamic" between imagination and art and then suggests that this means that our imaginative engagement with art enables us to become more critical, creative and compassionate thinkers.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Miranda Anderson https://t.co/ihoZueofSh

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In an exploration of imagination-oriented design, Monika Dunin-Kozicka asks: “how can we design things so that they trigger or afford imaginative actions to those who perceive them?”

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Monika Dunin-Kozicka https://t.co/SWRMdYUSlp

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Bruce G. Shapiro on two distinct ways that imagination operates in stage acting

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Bruce G. Shapiro https://t.co/tGruF183NF

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Georgie Brighouse argues that consideration of aphantasia suggests that we should adopt a pluralistic account of imagination.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Georgina Brighouse https://t.co/jqiakeBqG9

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Though sensory imagining is often used to provide pleasure in place of a real experience, Vincenzo Grasso argues in his post at The Junkyard that there is a second pleasure involved in sensory imagining, namely, the pleasure of imaginative agency.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Vincenzo Grasso https://t.co/8wyx08MHTt

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Ana Elisa Ulloa Labariega draws our attention to an important aspect of scientific modeling that she thinks is often obscured, namely, "its narrative character, sustained and structured through imagination."

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Ana Elisa Ulloa Labariega https://t.co/IFf1hHcBgH

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Zachary Srivastava on whether there is a paradox of scientific fiction akin to the paradox of fiction, and he also explores what this reveals about the nature of scientific vs artistic imagination

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: a post by Zachary Srivastava https://t.co/68k4jPfiVR

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Scholz, Liu, & Blomkvist discuss some important connections between mental imagery research & aphantasia research; they then suggest that both would benefit from interdisciplinary research/collaboration. Plus a plug for an interdisciplinary aphantasia conference at U of Glasgow.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: a post by Christian O. Scholz, Jianghao Liu, and Andrea Blomkvist https://t.co/Ce2R1BV0Q2

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Claiming that imagining the minds of non-human animals involves an "informed imaginative leap," Luca Marchetti explores what kind of imagination is involved in attempts to understand animal minds and what kinds of values are at stake when we make these attempts.

[The Junkyard @The_Junkyard_]

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Luca Marchetti https://t.co/EmnGbDkbTk