HeyJaredTim Seyrek
I explore topics in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. My focus is on reading and reflecting on books, research and academic papers. Occasionally, I share personal takes, but at the core, I aim to communicate what fascinates me in these fields.
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How to Read Difficult Books (opens the original)
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Much of what I do here and at university involves reading fascinating, albeit often challenging, books. I dare say I have become quite good at it, or at least better than I was before. A few years ago, reading — and more importantly, understanding what I had read — felt impossible.Yes, I could read a book if I had enough time, but I didn’t really remember or understand anything. Often, after finishing a chapter, I would sit down for a minute or two and realise that I hadn’t learnt or remembered
The Dark Substack Magic (opens the original)
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have been on Substack for about one year and four months now. It has been great fun, but also a lot of work. While researching, writing and reading, I have learned many valuable things. Specifically, I have had the fortune of reaching a few people with topics that interest me.Since so many of you have asked me for tips on finding an audience on this and… Read more
What If Science Is Already Idealist? (opens the original)
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First of all, I uploaded my version of the conversation here, and Alex uploaded his separately as well; I hope this is not overly confusing. The full conversation is also available on YouTube.Alex and I recently sat down for a long, very open-ended conversation about consciousness, reality, and what our scientific picture of the world actually commits us to.We ended up talking about predictive processing, idealism, perspectivism, Kant, physicalism, structural realism, panpsychism, and the proble
The Brain Kant Explain Itself (opens the original)
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As I discussed in my latest article, both modern neuroscience and Kant suggest that our perception of the internal and external world is an interpretive act constituted by top-down synthesis processes. A lot of theorists defending this so-called “predictive processing” theory even argue that we only have access to a “controlled hallucination”, or what Kant calls a “phenomenon”, rather than the “thing in itself”.Today, I would like to argue that the physicalist and direct realist positions that a
What the Brain Kant See (opens the original)
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Kant died in 1804, more than a century before the neuroscience of perception could even be considered. And yet the core claim of what many people see as a modern shift in the science of perception, that seeing is not a passive reading of the world but an active, top down act of interpretation, is one Kant arrived at from his armchair in Königsberg.Today, I will walk you through the philosophical basis of Transcendental Idealism and argue that Kant predicted a modern neuroscientific approach to (
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