[FRIAM] grave of dualism (was much better than chatGPT)

[Marcus Daniels]

It hadn't occurred to me that all this pluralism stuff would be red meat to you, but clearly it would be. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 9:35 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] grave of dualism (was much better than chatGPT)

Thanks for forwarding that paper. But figure 4 is, to me, WAY more interesting than figures 1 or 3.

High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v2.full.pdf

And to understand why, consider taking a look at this:

Registration Pluralism and the Cartographic Approach to Data Aggregation across Brains
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axz027

"Registration" is used in the same way we've been using it, perhaps more at the cash register, play-doh, or cookie cutter extrusion than the logging/naming sense. But it makes the point well that although within any 1 person, fMRI results can be fairly stable, across individuals, not so much. Ward makes a compelling argument for pluralism.

Yes, I know, I'm equivocating on "dualism". Y'all consistently mean Cartesian mind-body stuff. But pluralism really does extend to "mind" methods when they work best and body methods when they work best, which is why JEHSmith's largely mental narrative is important to the MoA for psychedelics.

Monism is a dead-end ... or worse, it's faith-based. Pluralism rules, dude.

On 3/4/23 11:11, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> That throws more dirt on the grave of dualism, it seems to me.
> 
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 4, 2023 10:55 AM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] much better than chatGPT
> 
> On 3/4/23 10:42 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> 
>     https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/?s=09 
> <https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/?s=09>
> 
> thanks for creeping me out (some more)!
> 
> I am askeered to imagine what kinds of images would be flashing around me if I linked up via an EEG hairnet as I read this article!
> 


--
ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ

-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe   /   Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam
to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
archives:  5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/
  1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/