Ela Praznik

MSc CogSci | MSc MolBio (to be) | Trying to understand how things hang together | ✨Sellars, 4E cognition, PP, pragmatism, neurophenomenology✨

[Moritz Kriegleder @mokriegleder]

so @panic_evolved and me talked about the tensions of enactivism and active inference in how they define norms and value. our favorite example: 🪨

[MetaNoia @metanoia_si]

The dog community has also taken a keen interest in vital normativity. Thanks to @biopoetics for bringing one along for the conference! Here pictured enjoying the break between lectures.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

Daston articulating that there may be a deeper reason why (aesthetic) pleasure is a good epistemic navigation standard (a.k.a. why you should follow beauty and fun in your research activity)

[Moritz Kriegleder @mokriegleder]

heavy topics together with @GGreslehner @SebastjanVoros @panic_evolved and many others...

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

@ki_cog @metanoia_si Amazing, thanks for the suggestion! I think reading Simondon is actually scheduled the next ‘semester’ of Metanoia :)

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

No concepts, no commitments - @mc_dropout

[Razpotja @Razpotja]

@nathiaas raziskuje izvore digitalnega v filozofiji G.W. Leibniza. @MaksValencic razpravlja o tem, kaj medijske študije zgrešijo pri digitalni tehnologiji. @panic_evolved razloži, kako je mišljenje neobhodno zvezano z jezikom in socialnostjo. 3/

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

My professor of phisiology once said something along the lines that most of the research in neurophsyiology is seriously handicapped because it was done on anesthetized, stationary, organisms
Basically 👏take 👏 enaction 👏 seriously

[Radio Študent - Znanost @znanostRS]

Funkcionalna motorična omrežja v embrijih vinske mušice se samoorganizirajo s povratno informacijo zaznave lastnega telesa v prostoru. #zbritoff

https://t.co/SukwKJHGCF

[Thomas Moynihan @nemocentric]

12—To finish up, first, here's Jeans's full quote on childhood's end and our place within the "cosmical timetable":

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

Geist has become too self-conscious and can't stop cringing

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

Useful concepts, unlike platitudes, are tools and someone that can explain a concept well, knows how to convey the know-how for its use.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

People are nature learning to change itself

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

On the contrary, good biology tries to provide an account of structures that persist but also how these structures change in a variety of time scales.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

Biologization is used like a slur for universalist tendencies, but I'd argue that that's just a vulgar surface view of biology as that which seeks to understand some fixed and invariable structures.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

To act is to simplify the world, to instrumentalize it. It is to colapse a set of possibilities given by our body schema into one. If we take that cognition arises through action in an environment it is thus no wonder we are prone to instrumentalizing the world.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

... Removing trust from the discussion on knowledge just invites conspiracy theorists. This dichotomy of either being all accessible or else given by an authority should be elaborated into what kind of knowledge is trustworthy or trustworthy enough.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

All knowledge is not accessible to understanding by everyone. There is simply not enough time for everbody to understand everything. Trust is thus an essential part of any intersubjective knowledge including science.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

Life is multidimensional data and depressive people keep looking at a shitty PCA graph.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

We are used to evaluating intelligence from our time frame. Maybe we look not like ants but like plants from a perspective of a ~faster~ intelligence.

[Ela Praznik @panic_evolved]

Models trained on human produced data contain human like biases. Models furthermore are built on certain assumptions made by their makers that necessarily exclude aspects of the problem. Far from a neutral judge, algorithms are human-laden.