Yohan John

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🧠 computational neuroscience | emergence | history of science | speculation 🤖

Research Assistant Professor at Boston University

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Yohan John @dryohanjohn · May 25, 2023

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One of my favorite papers on emergence fits nicely with this perspective. It's explicitly 'perspectival', avoiding any 'view from nowhere'.

Paper Dec 4, 2007

Emergence is coupled to scope, not level

by a-Rye||algore719

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Yohan John @dryohanjohn · May 19, 2023

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I present some of my PI Helen Barbas's big-picture ideas here (starting around 1:15), after Paul Cisek's excellent talk.

Video Jul 6, 2021

Paul Cisek on 'phylogenetic refinement': using evolutionary thinking to study behavior

by Paul Cisek

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Yohan John @dryohanjohn · May 16, 2023

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Just finished 'The Collected Schizophrenias' by Esmé Weijun Wang last night. A moving, multifaceted memoir of mental illness. Highly recommended!

Book Feb 5, 2019

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

by Esmé Weijun Wang

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Yohan John @dryohanjohn · May 9, 2023

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Excellent stuff from Ted Chiang, as usual. "Is there a way for A.I. to do something other than sharpen the knife blade of capitalism?"

Article May 4, 2023

Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?

by Ted Chiang

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Yohan John @dryohanjohn · May 9, 2023

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I highly recommend reading the paper! Intuitionism has a very different notion of the continuum.

Paper Jul 1, 2022

Brouwer and Weyl: The Phenomenology and Mathematics of the Intuitive Continuumt†

by Mark Van Atten and Dirk van Dalen

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