Darius Valevicius
Restless neuroscientist and occasional artist.
PhD candidate at Université de Montréal.
Interests include: Emotion, critical psychiatry, trauma, psychophysiology, history and phil of science, painting, drawing, music, game development
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- My greebles aren't behaving so I've been thinking about my backup plan to open a bakery or become a blacksmith or something
- I had a transcendent experience after watching Resurrection (2025) in the cinema. Standing on the sidewalk chugging cigs for 25 minutes, staring wide-eyed down the street waiting to come back to reality.
- I think we made a mistake when we stopped being little rat creatures, and a second mistake when we accepted modernity. Grooming, cuddling, co-sleeping with your fellow rats, all lost to time.
- This came up in a paper (Yin 2014) on basal ganglia control of movement. It reminds me of a critique I had of Feldman-Barrett's predictive processing theory of affect - it seems computationally intractable to predict, with a forward model, the metabolic consequences of everything that happens...
- "Yet modern man feels uneasy and more and more bewildered. He works and strives, but he is dimly aware of a sense of futility with regard to his activities. [...] While becoming the master of nature, he has become the slave of the machine which his own hands built." (E. Fromm 1947)
- To people who are afraid of rats/mice - would it help if I told you they have human emotions?
- What prompted me to say this? 🤔
- Baby's first forays into messing around with RNNs 🤓
- I'm setting up a little Discord server for informal #neuroskyence discussion and project support (also open to psych and philosophy folks). Trainees especially welcome! I like this platform but sometimes it's a bit tricky to keep a good conversation going :) DM me for an invite if interested!
- @nicolecrust.bsky.social The more things change, the more they stay the same (found in the 2008 edition of Chaos by J Gleick) #neuroskyence
- How do I bring moral ambition back to my community?
- Continuing on the reservoir business, I feel like "echo state network" (another name) is a good description of how it feels to be conscious - echoes of the previous few seconds and snippets of old memories mixing in with the present moment.
