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Leandro Castelluccio

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Leandro Castelluccio writes Sinapticas, a personal blog at sinapticas.com about philosophy and science. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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49mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 32 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts argue that the body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines. One comment is a moderator-style note that the submission's link was changed to point to this original post.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Essays on philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology by Leandro Castelluccio

Most-linked posts?

  1. How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-22
  2. The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-22
  3. Happiness doesn’t follow success: it’s the other way round
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Thanks! We've also updated the link to the original from https://sinapticas.com/2019/08/21/the-body-is-the-missing-li... .

    Comment linking /2019/08/21/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines/

    on “The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (2017)”
  2. Submitted Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Algorithms discern our mood from what we write online as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Artificial Intelligence, Health Disparities, and Covid-19 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Critics of Peer Review Ask How ‘Race Science’ Still Manages to Slip Through as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The access to academic and scientific information and the right to information as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted To Prevent the Next Covid-19, We Must Prioritize Biodiversity as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Making and Breaking Connections in the Brain as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Why some artificial intelligence is smart until it’s dumb as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Before Neuralink: we can already connect our brains as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Happiness doesn’t follow success: it’s the other way round as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted My Childhood Autism Went Undetected. It Cost Me Part of My Youth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Concussion Research Has a Troubling Patriarchy Problem as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted How Robert Nozick put a purple prose bomb under analytical philosophy as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Ants, Humans, and the Lessons of War as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The brain-heart dialogue shows how racism hijacks perception as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted To Combat Binge Drinking, a Search for Chemical Solutions as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted The fugue of life: why complexity matters in neuroscience as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted You’re simply not that big a deal: now isn’t that a relief? as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Can neuroscience tell us anything about cross-cultural differences? as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Is it relevant for our lives to know what’s the meaning of everything? as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted Happiness doesn’t follow success: it’s the other way round as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Is religion a universal in human culture or an academic invention? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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