Recent Saturday Morning NeuroSim Conversations
The Orthogonal Research and Education Lab YouTube channel is continuing to feature our Saturday Morning NeuroSim meetings, which are typically about two hours long. This is not a format friendly to quick recaps nor something that easily allows connections to be made across topics. Therefore, here is an update on selected conversations that have occurred over the past few weeks.
1. Discussions:
May 15. Ethics, Tech, and Society Discussion. Erin Higgs, Jesse Parent, and Krishna Katyal discuss a range of topics.
May 15. Tight Feedback Loops and Learning, Mean vs. Out-of-Distribution Behaviors.
June 5. “Trajectories in Cognitive Science” @ CogSci 2021. Bradly Alicea and Jesse Parent plan for this upcoming event.
2. Coverage of Two Debates involving Ecological Psychology:
June 6. Ecological Psychology vs. Interface Theory
Review of Wilson, A.D. (2017). Interface Theory vs Gibson: An Ontological Defence of the Ecological Approach. PsyArXiv, doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/QDPRU
June 12. Ecological Psychology vs. Enactivism
Review of Baggs, E. and Chemero, A. (2021). Radical embodiment in two directions. Synthese, 198(S9), S2175-S2190.
3. Topical Presentations:
May 29. Critical Periods presentation by Anusha Sharma.
May 29. Human-Assisted AI and Intelligence Augmentation by Bradly Alicea
June 6. Intransitivity (food for thought) by Bradly Alicea.
If you would like join the conversation, feel free to join our lab Slack team! (via Launchpass), join in our weekly Saturday Morning NeuroSim meeting (3pm UTC on jit.si), check out or meetings on YouTube, or contact us via e-mail about how to become involved.
Pictured: Anusha Sharma, Angela Risius, Jesse Parent, Akshara Gopi, Bradly Alicea
