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Today's output: Submitted a paper to a journal and riced my editor config (nvim 0.5 was just released, I was toying with creating a lua config file).

Me: the problem is we need to explain this concept, here are some ideas about how to proceed.

Reviewer: I can't fail to notice this concept is not clear, I don't know if we can proceed.

Me: congratulations, you understand the problem.

The final talk was by Helgi Clayton McClure, who showed how work in philosophy can inform experimental research in psychology. He explored the hypothesis that there is something like memories of the future with the use of techniques used in the investigation of mind-wandering. Really awesome stuff.

Overall, the conference was really lovely! People were super friendly, and there was a lot of very lively discussion and helpful suggestions.

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Today we had the last session of the EMW conference.

The first talk, by Büşra Telli, argued that there is no such thing as intentional mindwandering, with mindwandering requiring an absence of intention (I should note that my account gives a divergent verdict on this point).

The second was the keynote by Zac Irving, who gave an overview of his own dynamic account. Very interesting, made me reconsider a lot (1/n)

The final talk of the day is by Lennon Preston on the significance of aphantasic thought. Is aphantasic thought conscious? Yes, it is argued. Very interesting issues concerning the evidence for aphantasic thought and different ways to assess the presence of imagery.

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The second talk of the day was the keynote by Amy Kind, on Why We Need Imagination.She argues that we should treat is as a separate mental kind, sitinct from conceiving, supposing, belief and imagery (and also memory).

(You might not find it weird that philosophers disagree even on this!)

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Second day of the conference kicks off with a talk by Valentina Martinis on the phenomenology of imagination, and how it is different in kind from the phenomenology of perception. She argues against the instrucive epistemic use of imagination because she thinks imagination can't be assessed in terms of accuracy.

The conference has been super interesting so far. We started with a talk on mind wandering and music, and then we had a keynote on how we can think of mind wandering as a form of "local" sleep, so that we distinguish between mind-wandering and mind blanking.

We finished the day with my talk, I think it went quite nicely. I'm happy

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https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper

Pretty cool demo. Basically, I want this everywhere.

This is truth.

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