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Mental and physical privacy is the price we pay for data surveillance.

#mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #neurorights #dataprivacy #innerspeech #bci #bbi

Everyone deserves a fair go, especially the workers. AI-processed biometrics is an invasion of privacy.

#ai #privacy #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #biometrics #workersrights #workers

Everyone deserves a fair go, especially the workers. AI-processed biometrics is an invasion of privacy.

#ai #privacy #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #biometrics #workersrights #workers

Everyone deserves a fair go, especially the workers. AI-processed biometrics is an invasion of privacy.

#ai #privacy #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #biometrics #workersrights #workers

Everyone deserves a fair go, especially the workers. AI-processed biometrics is an invasion of privacy.

#ai #privacy #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #biometrics #workersrights #workers

Everyone deserves a fair go, especially the workers. AI-processed biometrics is an invasion of privacy.

#ai #privacy #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #biometrics #workersrights #workers

Public awareness of neurocrime and what it means and how to combat it is deeply lacking.

UNESCO’s Commission on Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) had urged the global community to act on the basis of Precautionary Principle, rather than wait for harm to occur.

#neurorights #neurocrime #neurosecurity #biometrics #dataharvesting #bigtech #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #law #lawenforcement

Public awareness of neurocrime and what it means and how to combat it is deeply lacking.

UNESCO’s Commission on Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) had urged the global community to act on the basis of Precautionary Principle, rather than wait for harm to occur.

#neurorights #neurocrime #neurosecurity #biometrics #dataharvesting #bigtech #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #law #lawenforcement

Public awareness of neurocrime and what it means and how to combat it is deeply lacking.

UNESCO’s Commission on Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) had urged the global community to act on the basis of Precautionary Principle, rather than wait for harm to occur.

#neurorights #neurocrime #neurosecurity #biometrics #dataharvesting #bigtech #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #law #lawenforcement

Public awareness of neurocrime and what it means and how to combat it is deeply lacking.

UNESCO’s Commission on Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) had urged the global community to act on the basis of Precautionary Principle, rather than wait for harm to occur.

#neurorights #neurocrime #neurosecurity #biometrics #dataharvesting #bigtech #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #law #lawenforcement

📲 Increasingly we have to stay vigilant on a number of different fronts - manipulation does not just come from the legacy media, it can come from the very tech that govern our lives.

🌎 We need to bring the discussions about tech-based manipulation at the core of our public policy conversation.

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #biometrics #cognitiveliberty #priming #nudging #privacy #neurotechnology

New age Neuro Surveillance is knocking at our door and we are not prepared. It's time to engage, inform and prioritise people safety - Knowledge is power💪

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #neurotechnology #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometricpsychography #biometrics

New age Neuro Surveillance is knocking at our door and we are not prepared. It's time to engage, inform and prioritise people safety - Knowledge is power💪

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #neurotechnology #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometricpsychography #biometrics

New age Neuro Surveillance is knocking at our door and we are not prepared. It's time to engage, inform and prioritise people safety - Knowledge is power💪

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #neurotechnology #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometricpsychography #biometrics

New age Neuro Surveillance is knocking at our door and we are not prepared. It's time to engage, inform and prioritise people safety - Knowledge is power💪

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #neurotechnology #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometricpsychography #biometrics

New age Neuro Surveillance is knocking at our door and we are not prepared. It's time to engage, inform and prioritise people safety - Knowledge is power💪

#neurorights #mentalprivacy #neurotechnology #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometricpsychography #biometrics

🧠 Our mental privacy is undermined and under threat - it's time to wake-up and take control of our biometrics.

#mentalprivacy #privacy #neurorights #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometrics #neurotechnology #brain

🧠 Our mental privacy is undermined and under threat - it's time to wake-up and take control of our biometrics.

#mentalprivacy #privacy #neurorights #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometrics #neurotechnology #brain

🧠 Our mental privacy is undermined and under threat - it's time to wake-up and take control of our biometrics.

#mentalprivacy #privacy #neurorights #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometrics #neurotechnology #brain

🧠 Our mental privacy is undermined and under threat - it's time to wake-up and take control of our biometrics.

#mentalprivacy #privacy #neurorights #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometrics #neurotechnology #brain

🧠 Our mental privacy is undermined and under threat - it's time to wake-up and take control of our biometrics.

#mentalprivacy #privacy #neurorights #cognitiveliberty #ai #biometrics #neurotechnology #brain

🧠 When we hear the term Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) the mind conjures up some medical equipment used at a sterile lab under harsh lights - far away from our living rooms - but today's consumer gadgets can collect and AI-process the same brain data like EEG, EMG, fNIRS. Some we use them everyday❗

💯 Transparency in product labelling matters for privacy considerations.

#BCI #neurorights #mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #EEG #EMG #fNIRS

❓ Are we getting the full picture?

📲 Consumer gadget sites that promote devices collecting "cognitive biometrics" data, need to label their product reviews about how those biometrics maybe used for neuromarketing or experimental "nudging".

❓ Does your gadget collect neuro data that can create psychographic profile about you ??

#neuromarketing #nudging #BCI #BBI #consumerrights #cognitiveliberty #mentalprivacy

How much do we know about what brain data we are sharing through our neuro tech devices?
Brain imaging and AI processing now allow data processors to predict people's intentions - even if people want to keep them private! Law makers need to pay attention.
#mentalprivacy #cognitiveliberty #biometric #biometricpsychography #neurotech #neurotechnology #AI #brain

¿La IA podría llegar a "leer" nuestros pensamientos?

🧠🔐 Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (BCI) son increíbles para la salud, pero abren un debate ético enorme: la privacidad mental. ¿Debemos proteger nuestros datos neuronales antes de que sean comercializables?

Puntos clave:
✅ Avance médico: Control de dispositivos con la mente.
✅ Riesgo: Comercialización de datos cerebrales.
✅ Necesidad: Legislación de privacidad cognitiva.
La tecnología debe ser humana y segura. ✨

#Neurotecnología #IA #PrivacidadMental #Ética #BCI #SaludDigital #IASinFronteras #TechForGood #FuturoHumano #Neuroethics #BrainComputerInterface #TechEthics #CognitiveLiberty #HumanCenteredAI #Privacy #DataPrivacy #FutureTech #HealthTech #AIethics #DigitalRights

¿La IA podría llegar a "leer" nuestros pensamientos?

🧠🔐 Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (BCI) son increíbles para la salud, pero abren un debate ético enorme: la privacidad mental. ¿Debemos proteger nuestros datos neuronales antes de que sean comercializables?

Puntos clave:
✅ Avance médico: Control de dispositivos con la mente.
✅ Riesgo: Comercialización de datos cerebrales.
✅ Necesidad: Legislación de privacidad cognitiva.
La tecnología debe ser humana y segura. ✨

#Neurotecnología #IA #PrivacidadMental #Ética #BCI #SaludDigital #IASinFronteras #TechForGood #FuturoHumano #Neuroethics #BrainComputerInterface #TechEthics #CognitiveLiberty #HumanCenteredAI #Privacy #DataPrivacy #FutureTech #HealthTech #AIethics #DigitalRights

¿La IA podría llegar a "leer" nuestros pensamientos?

🧠🔐 Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (BCI) son increíbles para la salud, pero abren un debate ético enorme: la privacidad mental. ¿Debemos proteger nuestros datos neuronales antes de que sean comercializables?

Puntos clave:
✅ Avance médico: Control de dispositivos con la mente.
✅ Riesgo: Comercialización de datos cerebrales.
✅ Necesidad: Legislación de privacidad cognitiva.
La tecnología debe ser humana y segura. ✨

#Neurotecnología #IA #PrivacidadMental #Ética #BCI #SaludDigital #IASinFronteras #TechForGood #FuturoHumano #Neuroethics #BrainComputerInterface #TechEthics #CognitiveLiberty #HumanCenteredAI #Privacy #DataPrivacy #FutureTech #HealthTech #AIethics #DigitalRights

¿La IA podría llegar a "leer" nuestros pensamientos?

🧠🔐 Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (BCI) son increíbles para la salud, pero abren un debate ético enorme: la privacidad mental. ¿Debemos proteger nuestros datos neuronales antes de que sean comercializables?

Puntos clave:
✅ Avance médico: Control de dispositivos con la mente.
✅ Riesgo: Comercialización de datos cerebrales.
✅ Necesidad: Legislación de privacidad cognitiva.
La tecnología debe ser humana y segura. ✨

#Neurotecnología #IA #PrivacidadMental #Ética #BCI #SaludDigital #IASinFronteras #TechForGood #FuturoHumano #Neuroethics #BrainComputerInterface #TechEthics #CognitiveLiberty #HumanCenteredAI #Privacy #DataPrivacy #FutureTech #HealthTech #AIethics #DigitalRights

¿La IA podría llegar a "leer" nuestros pensamientos?

🧠🔐 Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (BCI) son increíbles para la salud, pero abren un debate ético enorme: la privacidad mental. ¿Debemos proteger nuestros datos neuronales antes de que sean comercializables?

Puntos clave:
✅ Avance médico: Control de dispositivos con la mente.
✅ Riesgo: Comercialización de datos cerebrales.
✅ Necesidad: Legislación de privacidad cognitiva.
La tecnología debe ser humana y segura. ✨

#Neurotecnología #IA #PrivacidadMental #Ética #BCI #SaludDigital #IASinFronteras #TechForGood #FuturoHumano #Neuroethics #BrainComputerInterface #TechEthics #CognitiveLiberty #HumanCenteredAI #Privacy #DataPrivacy #FutureTech #HealthTech #AIethics #DigitalRights

As a person with very severe PTSD, I'm really happy that I think so idiosyncratically about things and don't just swallow whatever drivel passes for social justice on TikTok.

It was so easy for me to fall prey to monstrous, inhuman people. For nearly two decades, I was stuck and unable to escape the folks that unmade me.

Fortunately, I've since realized these people also tend to be deeply regressive and opinionated in the same way evangelical Christians are. And no matter how much they claim to support your "kind," that support evaporates the second you try to say that what they're doing isn't helpful.

I'm safer for their rejection. I have wonderful people around me now, and I can tell because "advocates of disabled people" have stopped attacking disabled people, which means only the real advocates of disabled people remain.

Thank you for seeing us.

#PTSD #CPTSD #TraumaRecovery #CriticalThinking #CognitiveLiberty #LateralViolence #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #IdiosyncraticThinking #BoundarySetting #SocialCritique #Survival #Deconstruction

As a person with very severe PTSD, I'm really happy that I think so idiosyncratically about things and don't just swallow whatever drivel passes for social justice on TikTok.

It was so easy for me to fall prey to monstrous, inhuman people. For nearly two decades, I was stuck and unable to escape the folks that unmade me.

Fortunately, I've since realized these people also tend to be deeply regressive and opinionated in the same way evangelical Christians are. And no matter how much they claim to support your "kind," that support evaporates the second you try to say that what they're doing isn't helpful.

I'm safer for their rejection. I have wonderful people around me now, and I can tell because "advocates of disabled people" have stopped attacking disabled people, which means only the real advocates of disabled people remain.

Thank you for seeing us.

#PTSD #CPTSD #TraumaRecovery #CriticalThinking #CognitiveLiberty #LateralViolence #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #IdiosyncraticThinking #BoundarySetting #SocialCritique #Survival #Deconstruction

As a person with very severe PTSD, I'm really happy that I think so idiosyncratically about things and don't just swallow whatever drivel passes for social justice on TikTok.

It was so easy for me to fall prey to monstrous, inhuman people. For nearly two decades, I was stuck and unable to escape the folks that unmade me.

Fortunately, I've since realized these people also tend to be deeply regressive and opinionated in the same way evangelical Christians are. And no matter how much they claim to support your "kind," that support evaporates the second you try to say that what they're doing isn't helpful.

I'm safer for their rejection. I have wonderful people around me now, and I can tell because "advocates of disabled people" have stopped attacking disabled people, which means only the real advocates of disabled people remain.

Thank you for seeing us.

#PTSD #CPTSD #TraumaRecovery #CriticalThinking #CognitiveLiberty #LateralViolence #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #IdiosyncraticThinking #BoundarySetting #SocialCritique #Survival #Deconstruction

As a person with very severe PTSD, I'm really happy that I think so idiosyncratically about things and don't just swallow whatever drivel passes for social justice on TikTok.

It was so easy for me to fall prey to monstrous, inhuman people. For nearly two decades, I was stuck and unable to escape the folks that unmade me.

Fortunately, I've since realized these people also tend to be deeply regressive and opinionated in the same way evangelical Christians are. And no matter how much they claim to support your "kind," that support evaporates the second you try to say that what they're doing isn't helpful.

I'm safer for their rejection. I have wonderful people around me now, and I can tell because "advocates of disabled people" have stopped attacking disabled people, which means only the real advocates of disabled people remain.

Thank you for seeing us.

#PTSD #CPTSD #TraumaRecovery #CriticalThinking #CognitiveLiberty #LateralViolence #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #IdiosyncraticThinking #BoundarySetting #SocialCritique #Survival #Deconstruction

Now the fact that I'm not existing in hoarding conditions and that I'm not paying for rent with survival sex is "speaking for other disabled people."

Man, I feel so advocated for I could swallow all my sleeping pills right now and make you AI haters very happy.

Do any of you actually care about people? Or is it really just ideology. It's obvious it's just ideology.

I would never treat someone going through what I'm going through the way you all have. It's never been in me to care so much for rules that I'm willing to let people suffer and die.

Like some of you are.

#DisabilityJustice #Ableism #SurvivalSex #HoardingRecovery #IdeologyVsEmpathy #Gatekeeping #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AIAccessibility #Survival #LateralViolence #CognitiveLiberty

Now the fact that I'm not existing in hoarding conditions and that I'm not paying for rent with survival sex is "speaking for other disabled people."

Man, I feel so advocated for I could swallow all my sleeping pills right now and make you AI haters very happy.

Do any of you actually care about people? Or is it really just ideology. It's obvious it's just ideology.

I would never treat someone going through what I'm going through the way you all have. It's never been in me to care so much for rules that I'm willing to let people suffer and die.

Like some of you are.

#DisabilityJustice #Ableism #SurvivalSex #HoardingRecovery #IdeologyVsEmpathy #Gatekeeping #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AIAccessibility #Survival #LateralViolence #CognitiveLiberty

Now the fact that I'm not existing in hoarding conditions and that I'm not paying for rent with survival sex is "speaking for other disabled people."

Man, I feel so advocated for I could swallow all my sleeping pills right now and make you AI haters very happy.

Do any of you actually care about people? Or is it really just ideology. It's obvious it's just ideology.

I would never treat someone going through what I'm going through the way you all have. It's never been in me to care so much for rules that I'm willing to let people suffer and die.

Like some of you are.

#DisabilityJustice #Ableism #SurvivalSex #HoardingRecovery #IdeologyVsEmpathy #Gatekeeping #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AIAccessibility #Survival #LateralViolence #CognitiveLiberty

I'm gonna go talk to a homeless services agency now that no one but AI ever told me about, so that they can keep me off the streets.

Y'all can keep arguing amongst yourselves about my genocidal attempts to not get raped again.

No CW. I don't get one whenever someone tells me I should've stayed high and living in a horrible situation where I basically paid rent with sex because "AI BAD." If I don't get one, why do you deserve one?

The disabled homeless person who is just trying to make it is asking.

You want CWs again? CW your shitty, suicide-encouraging, trauma-triggering, ignorant, absurd, melodramatic, inhuman options first. Then we'll talk. 🔥

Until then, it is crucial for your humanity that you understand the consequences of the barriers that you defend.

#HomelessServices #DisabilityJustice #Survival #AIAccessibility #Safety #Ableism #Neurodivergent #SurvivalSex #NoCW #CognitiveLiberty #DigitalEquity

Please reply telling me how much you enjoy talking over disabled people, and I will gratefully block you.

I have to deal with enough shit from neurotypicals and society while battling homelessness. Go run your toxic purity tests elsewhere. AI is currently saving my life. You are—as you come at me trying to make me feel bad for not giving up—actively working to end it.

Your rage reminds me that the world is cruel and wants me dead. And I refuse to die, no matter how much you try to make me want to kill myself.

Seriously, if this is you, the kindest thing you can do for me is fuck off and let actual humans who care about other humans and not only about virtue signaling have a say.

#AI #Accessibility #DisabilityJustice #Ableism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Survival #Homelessness #MentalHealth #DigitalEquity #CognitiveLiberty #Gatekeeping #ToxicPurity #BlockList

Motherfucker on Psychology Today literally argues that AI is bad because "before AI, confidence usually carried the weight of effort, and that effort was often a badge of accomplishment."

Conclusion:

Confidence is for non-disabled successful people. AI is bad because it allows disabled people to have confidence and maybe, just maybe, give them the wherewithal to get out of disability.

Fuck everyone writing about AI right now like they know anything because they clearly know less than nothing about the real world. 😾

Josh Nosta, if you can see this, literally fuck you, you hack.

#AI #Ableism #Accessibility #PsychologyToday #Neurodiversity #DigitalEquity #DisabilityJustice #TechEthics #JohnNosta #CognitiveLiberty

#ArtificialIntelligence, #Totalitarianism, and the Future of #CognitiveLiberty

https://thehumanist.com/magazine/summer-2025/features/when-artificial-intelligence-meets-emotional-intelligence

I'm happy to read the news that a court decided against a Health Canada decision, which had reversed HC's previous stance on permitting experiential psilocybin training. Today happens to be #WorldPsychedelicsDay so here is a link to a petition asking the UN to officially recognize the day. https://www.worldpsychedelicsday.org/ and here is the news about the court decision https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/health-canada-psilocybin-1.7566289 #psychedelic #CognitiveLiberty

Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning

In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes instead something very much aligned with our notions of niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”.

https://youtu.be/qGFEswKBnMw?si=v62sC5IHR1GRRqC4

As Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang states, “We simply are not Frankenstein monsters.” We tend to focus on small mechanisms and parts and pieces of knowledge. Instead, focus on the whole person, not the Frankenstein monster with all the little pieces. Affective neuroscience teaches us new perspectives for understanding and appreciating the importance of the whole person in the educational context.

Similarly, David Perkins warns us against the atomized learning of “element-itis”.

David Perkins talks about the importance of not atomizing learning, not turning it into what he calls the twin diseases of about-ism, always just talking about things rather than learning to do them, and what he refers to as element-itis, that everything has to be built up like Lego from little bricks of knowledge before you can really get to work on them.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Instead of attempting to build Frankenstein children from reductionist parts, let children build their own niches and tool belts in whole, embodied ways compatible with cognitive and somatic liberty. Let them embark on an “epistemic apprenticeship”.

Table of Contents

• Selected Quotes from the Talk
• Reading List
• Further Reading

Selected Quotes from the Talk

[This example of expository teaching] is appropriate because you’re all adults who are free to come, or not, and you’ve come presumably because you think there’s something you think you might find interesting…in being here. That’s not the case of schools, of course…

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

It’s a big jump to go from the sometimes appropriateness of a group of people sitting quietly and politely being told things by someone else, to assuming that such forms of teaching are somehow the dominant or the mandatory forms of teaching in places of education.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Sciences of learning – plural

• Cognitive neuroscience
• Affective neuroscience
• Social neuroscience
• Al and robotics
• Philosophy
• Sociocultural psychology
• Cognitive anthropology
• Developmental psychology
• Embodied cognition
• Evolutionary psychology
• Information processing psychology
• Instructional psychology

There’s no such thing as THE science of learning.

We are a variety of scholars working on understanding learning.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Sciences of LearningS

• Skill development
• Perceptual learning
• Learning to learn
• Developing attitudes, values and interests
• Identity development
• Information retention and retrieval
• Deep understanding
• A part in a play
• Making and Performing: Dance, Design Technology, Sport
• School maths and science

The sciences of learnings are not exclusively or even principally about school.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Learning happens when someone wishes to learn, not when someone wishes to teach.

Ken Robinson

A properly designed school system needs to focus on cognitive abilities, not scholarly subjects…If we allow students to choose what areas of knowledge they would like to focus on while learning those skills, they would be attentive and interested.

Roger Schank

We humans have created… mechanisms of thought, embodied in our nervous systems, that enable our minds to go further, faster and in different directions than the minds of any other animals… They are passed on to subsequent generations through social learning.

In the future, the cultural inheritance of cognitive mechanisms could be enhanced by formal education. It may be possible to design training programs for use in schools…to improve cognitive skills.

Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets

It’s fairly obvious that there is a fundamental mismatch between secondary education and the way kids learn. In school we want kids to start with the small building blocks, to learn the little pieces and start to put those together. But that is not how the human mind grows. It grows by engaging with deep powerful [ideas and questions] and then working backward to inform the meaning you are making…Supporting young people to engage with the complexities of their moral and social lives…is what is deeply, deeply motivating- and it is what grows their brains.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Intelligence is the sum total of our habits of mind.

As long as school focuses mainly on individual forms of competence, on tool-free performance, and on decontextualized skills, educating people to be good learners in school settings alone may not be sufficient to help them become strong out-of-school learners.

Lauren Resnick

Hardly anything we do is done solo. No matter whether you are an athlete, a business person, a scientist, a trash collector, or a clerk, you are almost always coordinating with other people in a complex way. Human endeavor is deeply and intrinsically collective—except in schools.

David Perkins

Much of the recent work on embodied cognition shows beyond a shadow of doubt that forms of higher cognition retain a deep and often quite automatic grounding in the sensorimotor, in the physical, in the actual, in the emotional, in the embodied stuff of our being.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

What’s coming out of the laboratory, many of the laboratories, is that there is a bit of a shift from that rather narrow concern only with the rational and the linguistic and the argumentative, to a concern to a revised, renewed concern. It was there in the early days, was there if you read William James, with a concern that the real, the real world of living, of loving, of raising children, what we might now call embodied or warm cognition, a form of cognition that is embroiled with and suffused with emotion, with bodily process, with illness and so on.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Curiosity is the engine, is the driver of learning.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

In a state of mindfulness, your own assumptions become visible to you.

And once they become visible, then they can become questionable. And once they become questionable, they become mutable.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Education as an Epistemic Apprenticeship

• School as a place where you go to get good at thinking, learning and knowing
• As in any apprenticeship, you need
  • Role models – teachers as ‘master-learners’
  • Mates – some a bit further on than you
  • Tasks that build competence and confidence
  • Feedback on progress
  • Appreciation of your (growing) contribution to life
  • Escalating responsibility
• Doesn’t it do that already? NO!

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Explicit teaching, as it’s become known, is good for relatively short term retentions of relatively exam type knowledge. If that’s your overriding goal, then that’s a reasonable way of teaching. It’s not ineffective, but if you also care about the development of collaboration, of intuition, of imagination, of self-rescuing, of resilience, of curiosity, if those are also on your list of valued outcomes, then it’s far less clear that explicit teaching is the optimal pedagogy.

And so it’s up to us, isn’t it? It’s up to us in terms of what we what we value, to be first very clear about that. And only then start making decisions about the optimal forms of pedagogy.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

So what do the learning sciences tell us about teaching?

• The “learning sciences” is a hybrid, multi-perspectival and unfolding discipline. There is no single agreed “science of learning”
• Even if there were, it would not tell us how to teach, without a clear specification of what we are teaching for.
• “Good teaching” involves a constantly changing balance of framing, explaining and exploring. A classroom is a complex adaptive system.
• The development of valued traits such as perseverance, independence and collaboration require escalating levels of challenge, autonomy and exploratory talk. To judge this escalation right you have to know your students well, as a group and individually.
• Learning, thinking and ‘behaving intelligently’ cannot be properly understood apart from matters of personality, emotion, conviviality, the nature of the challenge and the social context.
• Science and maths are not valid prototypes for all school learning.
• Mind is organic and ecological, not computational. Learning naturally grows out from what is already known. Mind is a tree, not a computer.
• The fundamental driver of learning is the urge to derive accurate predictions from experience that will guide future action, not to stockpile explicit knowledge. That is ancillary.
• Cognition is enhanced by culturally derived and socially transmitted ‘upgrades’ – and sometimes reduced by downgrades.
• Predictive processing, social and affective neuroscience and embodied cognition support wider purposes of education, and point towards possible pedagogies that involve emotion, autonomy, inquiry and ‘interthinking’
• School as an epistemic apprenticeship – cultivating positive epistemic upgrades and avoiding downgrades – is a wantable and practicable goal, but it challenges many educational shibboleths and will of course have its opponents.

Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube

Reading List

Here are the books mentioned during the talk:

• Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back by Guy Claxton
• Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools by Roger C. Schank
• Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes
• Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again by Andy Clark
• Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
• Education and Learning to Think by Lauren B. Resnick
• Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education by David Perkins

Further Reading

https://stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/on-the-problems-with-science-of-reading/

https://stimpunks.org/2025/05/19/niche-construction-and-toolbelt-theory-developing-the-tools-and-terroir-of-coping-and-learning/

https://stimpunks.org/philosophy/were-raising-whole-children-not-frankenstein-children/

https://stimpunks.org/glossary/niche-construction/

https://stimpunks.org/glossary/toolbelt-theory/

https://stimpunks.org/glossary/embodiment/

https://stimpunks.org/space/cavendish/

https://stimpunks.org/space/

https://stimpunks.org/glossary/intelligence/

#affectiveNeuroscience #cognitiveLiberty #collaboration #curiousity #epistemicApprenticeship #epistemicInjustice #iteration #nicheConstruction #scienceOfLearning #scientism #somaticLiberty #toolbeltTheory

Great... moderated lecture from @mala with @mmasnick on #CognitiveLiberty as relates to the animating purpose behind the pursuit of decentralization.

We do not decentralize simply to decenter, but instead to preserve the muscle that affords us choice, agency, and self-sovereignty when we get lazy through centralization and (1/2)

The battle for your brain at work by Nita A Farahany - https://www.fastcompany.com/90874616/worker-surveillance-brain-productivity

#CognitiveLiberty

Now that I learned the term #CognitiveLiberty, it’s going to burrow deep into my brain. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicholasxthompson_mostinterestingthingintech-activity-7131013448599007232-JqdD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=k5jEkTm5GIU

#TEDtalk #NitaFarahany , AI ethicist

Your Right to #MentalPrivacy in the Age of #BrainSensingTech

#tech #AI #science #ConsumerBrainWearables #CommodificationOfOurBrains #cognitiveliberty #NeuroTechnology

Hi.

“Advances in hacking and tracking thoughts, with Orwellian fears of mind control running just below the surface, is the subject of Farahany’s scholarship alongside urgent calls for legislative guarantees to thought privacy, including freedoms from “cognitive fingerprinting”, that lie within an area of ethics broadly termed “cognitive liberty”.

The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology | The Guardian

#privacy #CognitiveLiberty

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/26/nita-farahany-the-battle-for-your-brain-neurotechnology

The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/26/nita-farahany-the-battle-for-your-brain-neurotechnology?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Neuroscience
#Neurotechnology
#CognitiveLiberty
#NitaFarahany
#EdwardHelmore

"Many employers are already surveilling workers to find out what they’re thinking and feeling...Workplace surveillance is about to get much more precise by using brain sensors," says @NitaFarahany in a recent @BostonGlobe interview about #CognitiveLiberty.

#DukeBrainInTheNews
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According to @NitaFarahany, the day will come when companies know what products we want before we do, writes @EvanSelinger. They’ll get the inf…
https://twitter.com/GlobeIdeas/status/1635562031460892673

DIBS member @NitaFarahany's book, "The Battle For Your Brain" is officially on sale as of March 14!

Engage your visual or auditory cortex (audiobook available, too) and learn more about the importance of #CognitiveLiberty.

Congrats on the book launch, Dr. Farahany! 🎉
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From one of the world's foremost experts on the ethics of emerging technologies, THE BATTLE FOR YOU BRAIN by @NitaFarahany offers a path forwar…
https://twitter.com/StMartinsPress/status/1633498280528318464