Andrew D Wilson
@adw
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
I feel like “In an emergency, go get the iPad” is a bad thing to have to say 🤔
Look the important thing is that I have the new Murderbot book in my possession 🥰
I have a PhD student visiting on secondment who is working on reach to grasp tasks with prosthetics users. I got to play with one!
Their top use case is a guy apparently prevented from doing a project he’s always dreamed of because *checks notes* it would have taken him a couple of weeks to do it himself We’re so fucked
I now have a compete run of New Mutants now I spent too much money on this issue Deadpool was rude enough to debut in and raise the price
Basically they want to use the word affordances, but they don't know about/understand/want any part of information, which is the actual key to an ecological neuroscience.
Why would you even both calling your approach ecological if you explicitly endorse indirect perception and representational solutions? Gibson should have trademarked the name. This is honestly getting out of hand
You can tell Paltrow will care because she’s being cancelled by someone no one knows the name of
We don’t usually see each others headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it)
Phase 2 is I go back in and buy this now I’ve confirmed I don’t have it yet
My lovely friends all chipped in and got me a lot of vouchers to spend at my local comic book shop for my 50th (😳) birthday and Phase 1 has been completed 😎
Anyone want some scaffolding? Someone’s done my house by mistake so I have some spare 😂
Finally reading @anilseth.bsky.social’s book ‘Being You’ so I can be mad about his theory of perception (it’s a living 🤷♂️). Just saw this sentence about dreams, though, and I feel like it’s wrong; I experience dreams when I wake up, not when they’re happening 🤔 Thoughts?
I love this apple juice. They throw 4 apples into a machine and it juices them on the spot, and it tastes like you are drinking an apple. Kind of astonishing
I had this kind of connection to it, except I was calling the sheep the motherfuckers
This shit makes me irrationally angry. Just let people use the damn toilet you weirdos