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The perception of silence pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301 "Silence is truly perceived, not merely inferred"; but no "OFF cells" like with darkness detection in the human retina?

Do we actually "hear" silence? scientificamerican.com/article "An experiment tests whether our ears hear silent intervals in the same way they hear music or noise."

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Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.

Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/conte

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@seeingwithsound I see your point on how AI generated information could negatively affect such technology. It seems some sort of built-in fact check is needed, but not sure how it can be implemented.

@JimsPhotos Do you know what bird that is? I recently saw a similar one while traveling.

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Even though I am relatively new to and , what I like about the is its decentralised nature. I know that some will find this aspect quite disconcerting. Due to its nature, one is empowered to become one's own . In order to populate a , the onus is upon the user to follow liberally, as there is no all-seeing, all-knowing to do the work.

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#AI could change how #blind people #see the world wired.com/story/ai-gpt4-could- by kharijohnson@mastodon.social; AI image-to-text models "can make up information, or '#hallucinate'"; now try to identify that gorilla...

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" It is hard to imagine that before Pat’s research, the PFC was widely considered a “silent” brain area that neurosurgeons could lesion with impunity (as long as they did not damage Broca’s area), and the PFC was not thought to be a proper topic for scientific research."

academic.oup.com/cercor/advanc

#Neuroscience

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Awesome sketch on the #ImagingNeuroscience editor rebellion. I seriously hope more editors will have the courage and follow suit. (Looking at you Nature journals).

Editors Quit Academic Publishing Company
youtube.com/watch?v=hoUGiS1LeK

#elsevier

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Debate: Why not scientism?

Science is not the only form of knowledge but it is the best, being the most successful epistemic enterprise in history.

Philosophy is dead,’ Stephen Hawking once declared, because it ‘has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.’
The response from some philosophers was to accuse Hawking of ‘scientism'

aeon.co/essays/science-is-not-

#science #epistemology @sociology @philosophy #Philosophy #scientism #scientists #philosopher

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