Jules ten Bos

The World of Splectrum, home of Interrelational Pluralism.

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Bacteria signal each other, and the receiver fixes the meaning. Cells talk a face into being before there is a face. No neurons, each being with its own language.
#BasalCognition #Language
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[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

The industrial revolutions extended muscle, reach and data. The latest wave hands over thinking itself, to machines that are associative, not logic engines. Easy to misread.
#AI #Cognition #NeuralNetworks
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[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

A wheelwright tells his duke the sages' words are the leavings of dead men. A cook stops seeing the ox. Five stories from the Zhuangzi, told plainly, left unexplained.
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#SPLectrum #Zhuangzi #philosophy

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A century of single-cell results. What did they lack? Not quality — a home. How Pamela Lyon inverted the question, and basal cognition gathered the orphans in.
https://t.co/JpBZ9E5Bhn
#basalcognition #SPLectrum #philosophy

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

How does a brain keep going? Three process models, one insight each: capability retained by selection, dominance settled by contest, fit maintained by prediction.
https://t.co/KRjWUizI5G
#SPLectrum #neuroscience #cognition

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Hand someone every chisel and the whole tradition of the workshop, and one thing still hasn't been handed over: the knowhow of expressing in sculpture. It's acquired in the doing. So is cognition's.
https://t.co/7HwCTTtMxL
#SPLectrum #cognition #aesthetics

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Three schools drew the inside of the subject three ways: empty, split, pre-filled. Each then spent decades defending the drawing. Chomsky's demolition of Skinner was right but the position it launched has been shrinking ever since.
https://t.co/WRNFYhSCZe
#philosophy #linguistics

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Nothing is received first and made sense of after. Kant, the phenomenologists, the pragmatists, Yogācāra — the refusal has been stated in every register philosophy possesses. Core, not crown.
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#splectrum #philosophy #cognition

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

@MasterOfN0ne_ @IOHK_Charles Mental health not included. It remains massively underfunded - research and treatment - despite the enormous financial and human cost to society.

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Watch a child come into language: nobody hands it over whole — the child goes and gets it, from the middle of a world already talking. Vygotsky, Piaget, Tomasello, and a quarrel with no first.
https://t.co/OK7RkdHLgv
#splectrum #philosophy #language

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

@IOHK_Charles You wonder what society we live in. A society that does not take mental health serious enough. One may advocate to jail or kill 'culpable' people after the facts, but it does very little to minimise harm to society. That requires prevention.

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Experience never arrives empty. Bergson found it full of memories; Heidegger found us always already in the world. The process of cognition is always already running — and reality discloses itself in it.
https://t.co/pra5o2hKu8
#splectrum #philosophy #cognition

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Isabelle Stengers learned her metaphysics in a laboratory — Prigogine's, as time's arrow became real. What she took: practices answer from inside, no chair stands outside them all.
https://t.co/GVkWdKV0Z5
#SPLectrum #philosophy #Stengers

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Looking for what it takes to come to meaning in language, a word dropped out: cognition. Its relation to meaning is twofold — meaning is what cognition produces, and what it works in.
#splectrum #cognition #philosophy
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[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Isaiah Berlin, age seven, watched a Petrograd mob drag a man to his death. His philosophy never forgot it: genuine goods conflict, no formula resolves them — and that is not relativism.
#philosophy #pluralism #IsaiahBerlin
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[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

The creativity series opens: creativity as the generative value. A musician plays from a shared score, makes it their own in private — and the difference travels back out to countless many. Change always traces back to the subject.
#creativity #philosophy
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[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Had the methodologists had their way, the earth would have stayed still. Galileo won by breaking every rule. Feyerabend's demolition of method:
https://t.co/74WFCqAsRz
#SPLectrum #Feyerabend #PhilosophyOfScience

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Pluralism is a family of tracks — many, none privileged — that never joined up. They join in the medium they all use: language, and a great deal of shared understanding. Pluralist voices within one envelope.
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#splectrum #philosophy #pluralism

[Jules ten Bos @JulesTenBos]

Freedom, said Renouvier, is the sustaining of a thought — one possibility held in play. The definition rescued William James; the man vanished; the thought kept going.
https://t.co/G1Gz3yUWEF
#splectrum #philosophy #freewill