Evaluating Neural Representations Post 4 of 5 from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (Open Access: MIT Press). A central claim of the book is that recognition of the challenge of brain complexity — how it places pressure on scientists to devise experimental methods, theories and models, which drastically cut down the apparent …
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From Explanatory Success to Cautious Realism: A few drops of disagreement Commentary from Dimitri Coelho Mollo on today’s post from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (MIT Press). I was lucky to have had the chance to discuss this brilliant book with Mazviita Chirimuuta and others while it was still in preparation, and I’m looking forward to exchanging ideas about it …
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Understanding the Duty to Care: A Vulnerability Perspective Vulnerability theory differs from liberal political and legal perspectives in significant ways. The theory argues that we must replace the liberal theoretical subject with the “vulnerable subject,” moving analysis away from its current obsession with the individual to focus on the institutional or structural contexts in which the individual must always be placed and theoretically […]
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Maria Lugones: A Meditation on Acompañamiento, Compartir y Compas A continuación se encuentra una versión en español. A Spanish translation of this post is below. I remember the first time I met you. It was the last semester of undergrad and I had registered for a women of color literature course at the University of South Florida. It was the first time I saw […]
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The Details Might Just Matter Post 3 of 5 from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (Open Access: MIT Press). In the previous post I described how the literal interpretation of neurocomputational models encourages us to attend only to the perceived commonalities between brains and computers and to relegate the differences to the periphery of …
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