Your responses here are much more satisfying and comprehensible than your previous statements, it’s a bit of a shame we can’t reset the conversation.
2. Another anonymous commentator (thanks to Linch for posting) highlights that Abby’s line of questioning regarding EEGs ultimately resulted in a response satisfactory to her and which she didn’t have the expertise to further evaluate:
if they had given the response that they gave in one of the final comments in the discussion, right at the beginning (assuming Abby would have responded similarly) the response to their exchange might have been very different i.e. I think people would have concluded that they gave a sensible response and were talking about things that Abby didn’t have expertise to comment on:
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Abby Hoskin: If your answer relies on something about how modularism/functionalism is bad: why is source localization critical for your main neuroimaging analysis of interest? If source localization is not necessary: why can’t you use EEG to measure synchrony of neural oscillations?
Mike Johnson: The harmonic analysis we’re most interested in depends on accurately modeling the active harmonics (eigenmodes) of the brain. EEG doesn’t directly model eigenmodes; to infer eigenmodes we’d need fairly accurate source localization. It could be there are alternative ways to test STV without modeling brain eigenmodes, and that EEG could give us. I hope that’s the case, and I hope we find it, since EEG is certainly a lot easier to work with than fMRI.
Abby Hoskin: Ok, I appreciate this concrete response. I don’t know enough about calculating eigenmodes with EEG data to predict how tractable it is.
Thanks, but I’ve already seen them. Presuming the implication here is something like “Given these developments, don’t you think you should walk back what you originally said?”, the answer is “Not really, no”: subsequent responses may be better, but that is irrelevant to whether earlier ones were objectionable; one may be making good points, but one can still behave badly whilst making them.
(Apologies if I mistake what you are trying to say here. If it helps generally, I expect—per my parent comment—to continue to affirm what I’ve said before however the morass of commentary elsewhere on this post shakes out.)
Just want to be clear, the main post isn’t about analyzing eigenmodes with EEG data. It’s very funny that when I am intellectually honest enough to say I don’t know about one specific EEG analysis that doesn’t exist and is not referenced in the main text, people conclude that I don’t have expertise to comment on fMRI data analysis or the nature of neural representations.
Meanwhile QRI does not have expertise to comment on many of the things they discuss, but they are super confident about everything and in the original posts especially did not clearly indicate what is speculation versus what is supported by research.
I continue to be unconvinced with the arguments laid out, but I do think both the tone of the conversation and Mike Johnson’s answers improved after he was criticized. (Correlation? Causation?)
Generally speaking, I agree with the aphorism “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar;”
For what it’s worth, I interpreted Gregory’s critique as an attempt to blow up the conversation and steer away from the object level, which felt odd. I’m happiest speaking of my research, and fielding specific questions about claims.
Greg, I want to bring two comments that have been posted since your comment above to your attention:
Abby said the following to Mike:
2. Another anonymous commentator (thanks to Linch for posting) highlights that Abby’s line of questioning regarding EEGs ultimately resulted in a response satisfactory to her and which she didn’t have the expertise to further evaluate:
Thanks, but I’ve already seen them. Presuming the implication here is something like “Given these developments, don’t you think you should walk back what you originally said?”, the answer is “Not really, no”: subsequent responses may be better, but that is irrelevant to whether earlier ones were objectionable; one may be making good points, but one can still behave badly whilst making them.
(Apologies if I mistake what you are trying to say here. If it helps generally, I expect—per my parent comment—to continue to affirm what I’ve said before however the morass of commentary elsewhere on this post shakes out.)
Gregory, I’ll invite you to join the object-level discussion between Abby and I.
Just want to be clear, the main post isn’t about analyzing eigenmodes with EEG data. It’s very funny that when I am intellectually honest enough to say I don’t know about one specific EEG analysis that doesn’t exist and is not referenced in the main text, people conclude that I don’t have expertise to comment on fMRI data analysis or the nature of neural representations.
Meanwhile QRI does not have expertise to comment on many of the things they discuss, but they are super confident about everything and in the original posts especially did not clearly indicate what is speculation versus what is supported by research.
I continue to be unconvinced with the arguments laid out, but I do think both the tone of the conversation and Mike Johnson’s answers improved after he was criticized. (Correlation? Causation?)
Generally speaking, I agree with the aphorism “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar;”
For what it’s worth, I interpreted Gregory’s critique as an attempt to blow up the conversation and steer away from the object level, which felt odd. I’m happiest speaking of my research, and fielding specific questions about claims.