The Essential Role of Rhythmic Self-Modulation
Stimming as High-Precision System:
The Phenomenology of Autistic Self-Regulation and Its Value to Humanity
Functional Synchronization: The Emergence of Coordinated Activity in Human Systems
The topical landscape of psychology is highly compartmentalized, with distinct phenomena explained and investigated with recourse to theories and methods that have little in common. Our aim in this article is to identify a basic set of principles ...
Effects of Stroop task duration on subsequent cognitive and physical performance
The strength model of self-control purports to explain why brief cognitive response inhibition tasks impair subsequent isometric handgrip endurance. A…
Stimming as Temporal Awareness
Why Autistics Aren't Odd, Just More Attuned to the Human System Clock
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
The neuron as a direct data-driven controller | PNAS
In the quest to model neuronal function amid gaps in physiological data, a promising strategy is to develop a normative theory that interprets neur...
Computational Psychiatry Needs Systems Neuroscience
This piece was originally published in The Transmitter. I am adapting it here with some additional context for readers of this newsletter.
Towards Post-Interaction Computing: Addressing Immediacy, (un)Intentionality, Instability and Interaction Effects
We situate the debate on intentionality within the rise of cognitive neuroscience and argue that cognitive neuroscience can explain intentionality. We discuss the explanatory significance of ascribing intentionality to representations. At first, we ...
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.
How to be more creative in seconds!
Noise — binaural beats generator
Binaural beats, Shepard tones, harmonic overtones, and noise generator. Keeps playing when your phone sleeps.
Introducing The Psyche Network
EPISTEMIC STIGMERGY: NATURAL VS. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The article\(^{1}\) defends the thesis that intelligent behavior might require not internal complexity but complex interaction. This is demonstrated by the various forms of stigmergy that can be observed both in social insects and in humans. The exposition is structured as follows: (§0) explains how the term “intelligence” is interpreted in the following text; (§1) clarifies the relation between intelligence and complexity; (§2) shows that intelligent behavior does not require internal complexity; (§3) introduces the concept of stigmergy; (§4) presents the mechanisms that give rise to this phenomenon; (§5) distinguishes several types of stigmergic interaction; (§6) briefly discusses the evolutionary mechanisms that could have produced them; (§7) sketches the possible ways in which the concept of stigmergy is used outside biology; (§8) examines collaborative stigmergy in humans; (§9) points to its epistemic projections; (§10) outlines some conclusions concerning the role of artificial intelligence systems and their place in human society.
Dopamine Trap
Dopamine Trap does narrative driven decay. With organic noise, apocalyptic soundscapes, and scathing poetry his productions cast lovecraftian solopsisms on the roof of the skull, dripping with tumors of unresolved inter-generational trauma, resignation and reckless, violent love. He delights in emptiness and the granular implications of percussive silence.
Efficient Emotional Processing, Not Flat Effect
The Autistic Signal Conversion Protocol
