I wonder what Francisco Varela would be into if he was alive today. Interoception? Predictive processing? I don't think so. Maybe he'd have just vanished down the contemplative rabbit hole. Or psychedelic research? A massive data driven microphenomenology project?
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Replying to @micahgallen
He would probably be busy dealing with the backlash of a pre-registered many-labs study showing that one of his findings didn't replicate like many others whose research happens to fall under the
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Replying to @raybbecker
That's a good point! The original studies on neurophenom with Antoine and others definitely didn't stand the test of time. I do think Francisco would have accepted failed replication with grace though. And his approach to embodiment was never in the same vein as pop/soc psych.
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Replying to @micahgallen
I never heard anything about his personality, but I hope he would have had something constructive to say about this crisis. His work was some of the first research that I read before going into embodiment in cog psych and language
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Some of his work is woefully underpowered - almost case-study-esque. I could see him arguing for the value of these kinds of intensive within-person research projects, eveen though they are almost antithetical to replication by design.
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They definitely took the psychophysics approach of many trials, tiny Ns -- and there is a long history demonstrating the value of that approach. But of course these days we now want to see many trials with much larger Ns - especially when there may be major individual difs.
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