ENSO Seminar Series

The December 2025 ENSO is next week!
Particularly delighted to have @xabibaran.bsky.social joining us to discuss "Generactive Midtended Cognition and AI: thinging with thinging things"

Thursday 4th Dec @ 1000 UTC (see link for details and time in your own timezone)

ensoseminars.com/presentation...

Transforming agency: On the mode of existence of large language models - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - This paper investigates the ontological characterization of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Between inflationary and deflationary accounts, we...

How ChatGPT is transforming agency:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are interested on the ontological status of LLMs or want to get a better technical grasp on their internal functioning (without a maths or engineering background) this might be a good starting point.

ChatGPT fails on counting how many right angles are in the word TEN

PhD level intelligence in all domains... Right at your fingertips 😅

Grappling w my identity as a reluctant enactivist...
My favorite formulation of the approach so far is @xabibaran.bsky.social's "Autonomy and enactivism: Towards a theory of sensorimotor autonomous agency" (2017)

link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

IMO, it does three great things: