Christian Kliesch

@enactedmind.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam. Interested in cognition and what it means to be human. So far. I identified potential culprits: Bodies in development, minds enacting, babies being clever but mostly useless at doing things.

"Elsewhere Nietzsche cast doubt on the sincerity of Schopenhauer's pessimism on the curious grounds that in his spare time he was a keen flutist: "Schopenhauer, pessimism not-withstanding, actually-played the flute... every day, after dinner. You can read it in his biography ... is this really—a pessimist?""
View onto Edinburgh Castle from Arthur's Seat, Scotland.
The "everything bagel" from "Everything Everywhere All at Once" radiates little particles of knowledge.
Example stimuli used to elicit the Thatcher Illusion. In the Thatcher illusion, eyes and moths are rotated 180 degree in relation to the rest of the face. In the example image, 4 versions of the same face are shown, two faces the right way up, two faces up side down. The faces either received the manipulation of turning the mouth and the eyes up-side-down, or were not manipulated. People with typically developed configural face processing take into account the face's overall configuration when it is presented the right way up and immediately notice the Thatcher manipulation in faces presented the right way up. However, they are less likely to notice the manipulation if the face is presented up-side-down.
Wood Duck family with mother and hatchlings
Portrait of Susan Oyama
Image of a European red squirrel behind a pile of hazel nuts, sampling one of them. According to the source, the image is AI generated.
A picture from a scientific paper, showing 5 young toddlers. The first one illustrates free play wearing typical toddler clothes, the second one is wearing an additional harness. The next three kids are dangling in harnesses that are compensating for their body weight to varying degrees - 0%, 20% and 40%. All babies have a black bar over their eyes to preserve their anonymity.