Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

Philosophy PhD student @ UWO. I study responsiveness—how organisms meet their needs, solve their problems, and answer the questions life asks. London, Ontario Joined June 2016

Tweets

1K
Followers

155
Following

180
Likes

2K

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

a year ago

0 0 0 335 0

Download Image

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

a year ago

An attempt to solve a problem is not a *good attempt* because it ends up succeeding. But it is the best one can do.

0 0 0 265 0

Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone

a year ago

You can see where you are looking! This image by @AkiyoshiKitaoka lets you see your own eye movements, which create a little light-gray 'spotlight' wherever you point your eyes. The spotlight isn't really there; your mind is making it!

21 117 627 64K 380

Download Image

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

a year ago

What if we did the same dumb thing but faster and at larger scale?

0 0 0 136 0

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

a year ago

Can I cross here or not? Time to put the Gestalt closure principle to work.

0 0 1 227 0

Download Image

Center for Dewey Studies @Dewey_Center

2 years ago

“The most marked trait of present life, economically speaking, is insecurity. It is tragic that millions of men desirous of working should be recurrently out of employment; aside from cyclical depressions there is a standing army at all times who have no regular work.

1 2 6 347 0

Center for Dewey Studies @Dewey_Center

2 years ago

Live Stream for Day 2 of the Conference can be found here: youtube.com/@DeweyCenter/l…

1 2 3 313 1

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

2 years ago

"The live animal does not have to project emotions into the objects experienced. Nature is kind and hateful, bland and morose, irritating and comforting, long before she is mathematically qualified or even a congeries of "secondary" qualities like colors and their shapes." -Dewey

0 0 1 120 0

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

2 years ago

There are a lot of ideas that could change the world that aren’t changing the world.

0 0 0 96 0

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

2 years ago

I think it’s *more* true that IIT is a “dominant” and “leading” theory of consciousness than that it’s “pseudoscience”. What really needs to be communicated is how speculative naturalistic theories of consciousness are right now, and that science has to be like that sometimes.

0 0 1 111 0

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

2 years ago

Adler is my favourite of the first wave of psychoanalysts. youtu.be/3K1E-JFoMII?si…

0 0 0 133 0

WWF-Canada @WWFCanada

2 years ago

Protect wildlife before it's too late! 🐦 Populations of at-risk species in Canada have declined 59% on average since 1970: wwf.ca/lprc2020 #TwitterX #FridayMorning

5 79 186 25K 1

Download Image

Jonathan Bowen @vitalfunctions

2 years ago

“I am tempted to claim that the first effort to research a new problem is most likely to be inelegant, imprecise, and crude. What one mostly learns from such first efforts is how it should be done better the next time. But there is no way of bypassing this first time.” - Maslow