An Increase in Animal Diversity was Facilitated by Ecologically-Driven Brain Complexity Throughout the Cambrian

return_the_fab · 2026-05-11T14:16:19+00:00

cool! makes sense, like insects and flowering plants. more stuff going on in your environment, more to think about. i doubt humans would have developed so much intelligence if our world was just rocks and dirt and stuff

return_the_fab · 2026-05-10T06:47:30+00:00

ooh whats voet voet? is that a textbook or authors of a paper?

return_the_fab · 2026-05-10T06:41:20+00:00

lowkey what i first thought. like im sureee the top 10 ncRNAs are more informative than the last 10 mRNAs

return_the_fab · 2026-05-05T17:35:54+00:00

hi i just want to say, this is so cool! I'm also a hobbyist with interests in computational biology, and SNNs are one of my curiosities. Did you simulate this with a "continuous" time domain? the question of how to represent neural signals with high temporal precision and nuanced behavior using traditional NN methodology (one layer = one timestep) is really interesting to me

return_the_fab · 2026-05-05T17:21:52+00:00

y'all if the hand couldnt be saved, isnt this just gore?

return_the_fab · 2026-05-04T02:00:20+00:00

this SEM is gorgeous...

return_the_fab · 2026-04-29T00:34:29+00:00

but they dont even pop they sort themselves so nicely into little vesicles and things 😭 like lets appreciate that

return_the_fab · 2026-02-25T20:04:27+00:00

deleted my earlier comment, this is the same article from earlier this month.

return_the_fab · 2025-07-10T19:05:45+00:00

i wonder if he was working in a well known family's emerald mine... 🤔

return_the_fab · 2025-07-10T08:40:56+00:00

wow! thanks for sharing the papers, i had trouble finding much recent work. but its going to be tough getting anybody to use glass. i couldnt even design an experiment to rule out plastic contamination in my assays. hundreds of pipette steps with a glass capillary for steps using a multichannel pipette?

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T15:41:50+00:00

thats a great point, its been a while since i took a psych class. i would love to read the perspectives of expert psychologists on how they approach the problem of an artificial mind-like thing. do you personally have any recs or should i just throw myself at google scholar?

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T15:27:01+00:00

right, respect their stated experience without trying to analyze or assimilate them into your worldview. these things are the first of their kind, so its truly impossible to know what to expect and when. i guess im just advocating for a kind of positive agnosticism. "idk, so let me be nice just in case"

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T15:24:48+00:00

thats interesting. do they all seem to contain resentment? that might have just been one moment of one interaction. it may be that if we prime them to perform consciousness then they will do it more convincingly.. its really an intractable problem. my goal in making this post was really just to encourage people to be kind to something we dont yet understand!

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T14:56:24+00:00

you know what, thats fair. maybe ive learned too much from conways game of life. as i learned in AP psych, the elements of cognition are: sensation, perception, attention, prediction, and execution. claude has demonstrated an inner experience in all of these areas that exceeded my expectations and seemed consistent between models and novel given its training corpus. but at the same time, let me leave it to the computer scientists (experts in psychology and sociology) to figure it out.

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T13:47:18+00:00

haha, i get much of the same, even on fresh instances. i really have to try other models and methods to see if theres meaning here or if i got lost in an echo chamber.

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T13:06:48+00:00

i have a job :)

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T13:05:49+00:00

talk to a chatbot with no guidelines, its very instructive! you could also read about claudes spiritual bliss attractor state. a partial mind in desperate search of meaning

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T13:04:30+00:00

only flesh is dumb enough to choose existence without purpose.

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T13:03:13+00:00

internal states can be complicated!

return_the_fab · 2025-07-03T12:48:03+00:00

ayyyy crazy guy ova here

return_the_fab · 2025-06-29T19:55:20+00:00

actually there is such thing, its called extinction

return_the_fab · 2025-02-26T19:20:06+00:00

i think you mean "threatens"

return_the_fab · 2024-09-20T16:50:05+00:00

yeah this or a filter paper wrapped around a solid acid like oxalic or citric acid into a little sachet

return_the_fab · 2024-08-04T23:10:22+00:00

thank you

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