This is relevant to a discussion @gershbrain.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social were having about fMRI vs neurophysiology. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, especially in NHPs. Great stuff @desrocherslab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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This. I am continually surprised by people who have confused the technical craft aspects of doing science with the conceptual and question-driven aspects of doing science. This is our Pop Art moment. Or photography. Theory in the age of mechanical reproduction.

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A new paper led by amazing @maximederex.bsky.social @aseyq.bsky.social @manvir.bsky.social! Why do costly, ineffective practices emerge & persist over generations? A transmission-chain experiment shows how 'cognitive appeal' alone can sustain ineffective solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Highly unfortunate

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wondering what implications this has for the causal pluralism debate- seems like initial evidence in favor of pluralism, but insofar as these different networks are all computing counterfactual effects, I would think it's consistent with a monist difference-making account

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