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[Suivent les mots de Suzanne Fortier, "Principale et Vice-Chancellière de McGill", le français suit.]

Dear members of the McGill community,

In January, I committed to reaching a decision on the Redmen name before the end of the academic year. Today, I write to share my decision with you.

Over these past months, I have read and reflected on the McGill community’s varied perspectives on the issue. I have heard heartfelt and thoughtful views from students, faculty, staff, and alumni, including current and former athletes and Indigenous community members. Many people sent messages directly to me; others made their voices heard by writing to members of McGill’s senior leadership, or through o

I come from Machine Learning with a neuroscience-y question. Basically, some models that we train to interact with an environment often benefit from a good amount of "Newtonian" and causal priors. Very often, these priors are embedded in the visual system of the Machine Learning model, as priors over local displacements, or as visual contingency awareness. Doing so in the visual domain is often much easier than in an abstract domain.

This made me wonder if we have clues as to whether our brains really require vision in order to learn such things or if we have a "signal-type-agnostic" learning mechanism that just learns about intuitive physics.

This led me to wonder if blind people lack som