Martin Fortier-Davy

PhD student at Institut Jean Nicod (EHESS, ENS) in Paris | Working at the intersection of anthropology, cognitive science, & philosophy of mind

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

Our book on metacognition across cultures is now officially out!

"This volume casts a large net by examining interdisciplinary approaches to cultural influences on the control of the mind." Michael Posner

https://t.co/oQaKSSEtWr

@OUPAcademic

[Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere]

Some good news in the midst of this madness: I'm very happy to finally share the inaugural special issue of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, co-edited with @ThomasMetzinger, on radical disruptions of self-consciousness! 1/4

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Symbolic math without explicit symbol manipulation.

As I've said: replace symbols by vectors and logic by continuous (or differentiable) functions.

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

Some further thoughts on the deep history of hallucinogenic use: https://t.co/YkpENJbVOq

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

@cdutilhnovaes @mgIS44C I'm not aware on anything on Carnap-Foucault, but there are some very interesting passages on Wittgenstein-Foucault in Dreyfus & Rabinow's "Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics" (1982)

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

@mr_corcorana @hohwy @MMConsciousness Why is anthropology missing from the picture!?

[Hasson Lab @HassonLab]

Our new paper in @NeuroCellPress argues against the classical cognitive opposition to deep neural networks as useful scientific models of the mind. We argue that both the brain and deep neural networks belong to a particular family of "direct-fit" models: https://t.co/cXWQ4E5Zwd

[Guillaume Dumas @introspection]

📗 Notre dossier "Les états modifiés de conscience en question: anciennes limites et nouvelles approches" coordonné avec @Martin_FortierD & Juan Gonzáles est à présent en #OpenAccess! https://t.co/mdMcikMDMj

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

@andrewshtulman Derrida would be a good practical introduction to Sperber's concepts of "quasi-proposition" and "guru effect", though ;)

[Peggy Seriès @SeriesPeggy]

Wonderful to have Renaud Jardri in Edinburgh, giving not one research talk but two, in Informatics and Psychiatry! I thought I'd give the maestro of the circular (Bayesian) inference model a proper tour of the Bayes center ;)

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

Some comments I wrote on the deep history of hallucinogenic use: https://t.co/HkYsvjlUni

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Exciting example of the emergentist perspective in the domain of number.

Most interesting part: an account of developmental refinement of number sense acuity from experience - this is empirically true but very undertheorized in nativist accounts.

[Samuel Veissiere @samuelveissiere]

Can an inert pill in a curated environment induce a psychedelic experience? Basically yes. Happy to share the pre-print of our Placebo Psychedelics paper https://t.co/bZhMB6MJ1H

[Guillaume Dumas @introspection]

Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, & Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders https://t.co/NpZlAT3jRx cc @ClaraMoreau9 #NDD

[Rita McNamara @GuessRita]

Fresh out! A review with Ben Purzycki examining how socio-ecological contexts work along with cultural evolutionary forces to shape beliefs across societies.
Note to Grad students, take heart: This paper started as part of my comps in 2014! You can do it! https://t.co/jlzXGOBAfy

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Manuel’s review helps synthesize a view of early pragmatics that I’ve been working on since my dissertation. Really happy to have this out!

[Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 @Neuro_Skeptic]

Are there conscious states that are neither shaped by sensory input nor able to be expressed by motor output? https://t.co/2A3bhepuSN feat. @anilkseth

[Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto]

It is "Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age" publication day! You can find it (paperback and ebook) in all usual places. I will do threads about the content of single chapters in the next days/weeks. https://t.co/6WyCCUb25x

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Bolivia’s ousted vice president Álvaro García Linera told Jacobin about last Sunday’s coup d’état and the murderous violence now being unleashed against Evo Morales’s supporters. https://t.co/1hNT2p2H7A

[dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social @dansperber]

Very interesting and challenging:
Communication efficiency of color naming across languages provides a n... https://t.co/PZsWmjYnoB

[Martin Fortier-Davy @Martin_FortierD]

A rebuttal of the endogenous DMT hypothesis!
According to Nichols & Nichols, Dean et al.’s (2019) was deeply flawed: https://t.co/TZ0q7wfxuv #ALIUS

Dean et al.'s original paper is available here: https://t.co/Vy7keIIvxz