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While everyone remembers Apollo 13 from its namesake 13 ball multiball, its rocket ball lock is quite a cool feature too! The rocket catches the ball, starts rotating upright and then drops the locked ball onto a passage under the playfield. The huge LED 7-segment under it is also a cool detail and something Sega used later in Starship troopers.

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2/2 How can systems detect error? Not through action failure alone! Inconsistency detection (via info-redundancy) is cognition’s "immune system" (§5). It proxies falsity before outcomes—solving Bickhard’s access problem.

Truth isn’t a ghost in the machine. It’s Neurath’s compass: refined mid-voyage, indispensable for navigation, yet grounded in the ship’s structure.

The paper is published in Phenomenology & Cognitive Sciences (SI on Bickhard)

“…primal cultures held animistic worldviews. They never separated mind and body; what we call “mind” permeated all things. …life was not mysterious—death was. Human societies built elaborate rituals around death because the disappearance of living presence was baffling. … Fast-forward to early-modern Europe. With the rise of mechanistic science, the polarity flips: death becomes the rule and life the anomaly that needs explaining. Something clearly shifted in humanity’s self-understanding.”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/prehensions-propositions-and-the
#mind #body #life #death #mechanism #science
Footnotes2Plato · Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological CommonsBy Matthew David Segall

The old and the new #mechanism - part 2

- Explanation attempts for the understanding of the #reductionistic and #positivistic #world #view -

The 2nd part of the article on the "old and new mechanism" published here was also kindly provided to me by Dr. Gregorio Demarchi of the Institute of #Philosophy of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena for publication on my site.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2022

The modern mechanism that is assumed today (and in Bergson’s time) is, in a manner of speaking, a mutilated Cartesianism, or (seen from another perspective) a secularized version of Newtonian physics.
—William Barnard, Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson
#mechanism
“Dynamism starts from the idea of voluntary activity, given by consciousness…: it has thus no difficulty in conceiving free force on the one hand and matter governed by laws on the other. Mechanism follows the opposite course. It assumes that the materials which it synthesizes are governed by necessary laws, and although it reaches richer and richer combinations, which are more and more difficult to foresee, and to all appearance more and more contingent, yet it never gets out of the narrow circle of necessity within which it at first shut itself up.”
—Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
#dynamism #mechanism
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As dilettante #neuroscience student, nowadays it is incredible to have #OpenAccess to @thetransmitter #journalism by contributors & editors divulgative style written pieces, with included opinionated voices from global #BrainScience researchers, on broader #NeuroNews & current #HotTopics

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1 #Mechanism wtf?
Lauren N Ross & Dani S Bassett, ea:
doi.org/10.53053/YPDW9574

2 #MoodDisorder wtf?
@NicoleCRust ea:
doi.org/10.53053/MHCS4874

3 #FEP wtf?
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doi.org/10.53053/UZNK5581

The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives · What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscienceBy Dani S. Bassett

Preliminary Observations of the 5 April 2024 Mw 4.8 New Jersey Earthquake
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doi.org/10.1785/0320240024 <-- shared paper
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doi.org/10.1785/0320240020 <-- shared paper
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doi.org/10.1177/87552930231215 <-- shared paper
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[This is ‘unusual’ seismic activity and shaking patterns for this part of the USA, on an ‘unmapped’ fault, and seemingly challenging existing models of earthquake risk in the region; while a 4.8 is not big, it must have been quite a surprise for the people in this heavily populated U.S. Northeast not used to such things (per the paper, the USGS estimated it was felt by some 42 million people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthquake #risk #hazard #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #NewJersey #USA #geology #engineeringgeology #seismic #USGS #seismology #fault #faulting #Tewksbury #DidYouFeelIt #geotechnical #NIST #remotesensing #InSAR #strikeslip #mechanism #thrust