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Ben de Bivort
@debivort@drosophila.social
mastodon 4.3.8Professor at #Harvard University in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology #OEB and the Center for Brain Science #CBS.
We study the #behavior of individual flies as a model of #individuality and #personality, and manifestation of #phenotypic #variability. We investigate the mechanistic basis of this variation through the lenses of #circuit #neuroscience, #genetics and #evolution, with the tools of #computational #ethology
lab.debivort.org
Other: #GJP #superforecaster, #MIT #MysteryHunt
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Joined November 02, 2022
https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/news/zombie-making-fungus-carries-an-enormous-genome/
Announcement of our new paper on the Zombie fungus Entomophthora muscae genome. A massive collaboration led by @zombieflied@drosophila.social with @Lovettbr@arthropod.social @kasson_wvu@bird.makeup @hyphaltip@genomic.social
paper here: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/92863
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@beneuroscience@neuromatch.social @yoginho@spore.social @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org @NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social True! Much of what I meant by "fun" was "spicy."
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@yoginho@spore.social @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org This thread is a fun read, but I wonder if you are both working from the same definition of computing to ask if cognition or physical processes are computation?
If you each were to independently write down definitions of computation, how operationally similar would they be?
If you have very different definitions, it's a disagreement of assumptions, not one that can be resolved through evidence.
cc @NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social re: my comment in your thread on jargon.