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The latest links… Can life—all life—be defined in terms of agency? — well what do we mean by agency? From Newton’s few laws to Alphafold’s 93 million parameters: how should we understand the scientific virtue of simplicity today? — Eric Winsberg on science, simplicity, and prediction This digital bibliography for consciousness studies has over 1,300 entries across 9 themes and 63 subtopics — created by philosophy PhD student Melinda Gülsüm Esen with “the aim of making the literature more navigable for students and researchers working in or entering the field” “We can exercise some control over our beliefs” if we run different “modes of operation” and “recruit additional beliefs and heuristics” — Joshua Mugg begins a discussion of his book, “From Human Reasoning to Belief,” at the Brains Blog Has the word “racist” been diluted through “conceptual inflation”? — two philosophers, Nat Hansen & Shen-yi Liao, investigated this using the “apparent time method” “What is the ideal that America…