Dennett's Real Patterns in Science and Nature The explosive growth of AI and machine learning in recent decades is predicated on the recognition and exploitation of patterns in data. Of course, scientist...

Also of potential interest:

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The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment This paper presents an extended thought experiment conducted by Daniel Dennett and the author as a way of exploring how consciousness might develop without a central “Cartesian Theater.” The starti...

In a paper started with Dennett himself, Keith Frankish presents an extended thought experiment, the Emancipation of the Drone, as a way of exploring how #consciousness might develop without a central Cartesian Theater doi.org/10.1080/0951... open access #vol39issue3 #philsky #philpsy
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Artificial intelligence and the breakdown of the intentional stance Published in Philosophical Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2026)

What are Dennett's powerful ideas? Discover it in this new thread on #vol39issue3. Let's start with an editorial by Felipe De Brigard on #AI and the breakdown of the intentional stance, free access here: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
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Mind as Metaphor book cover

Daniel Dennett photo

Very exciting new issue published today! It contains a special issue on the philosophy of Daniel Dennett (Dennett's Powerful Ideas) and a symposium on Adam Toon's book, "Mind as Metaphor" #vol39issue3 Enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/...

Cover of new book.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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And we are lucky to have you B!

The Language of Thought Hypothesis

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out.

doi.org/10.21428/e27...

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Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth

Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote this for today's @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This time, for real, I will try to be more active here than on the other site. 🤪

Breaking news! Two more articles for our special issue of Philosophical Psychology. First: Marco Facchin argues that my version of mental fictionalism entails the existence of extended mental states: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @journalphp.bsky.social @marcofacchin.bsky.social 1/2

What are the best, or classic, works on whatever you consider higher cognition/thinking? 👀

Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Philosophy of the Mind « News# « Cambridge Core Blog The American adventurer Chris McCandless said that happiness is only real when it is shared. I would say something similar about knowledge. A piece of academic research may be rigorous, original, and ...

I wrote a piece for the Cambridge Core Blog about the Elements in Philosophy of Mind series I edit. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

In philosophy, if you think the answer's obvious, then you haven't understood the question.

Philosophy is the art of thinking about things we don't know how to think about.

Mind & Language: Vol 0, No 0 Click on the title to browse this issue

the whole symposium about my work with Luis Favela on the concept of neural representation is now online at Mind & Language.

And what do you think about them?

I checked out the Brain-Mind one (the natural philosophy one it seems interesting, but it's not available on LibGen), and, tbh, I found it lacking.

You mean the trilogy about brain to mind, mind to society, and natural philosophy? 🤔

Paper about all the things with Taraneh Wilkinson officially out now and open access. “Affordances, phenomenology, pragmatism and the myth of the given” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you!

In my case, luckily, the craving is gone. And I hope it keeps that way.

It has been over a week since I quit smoking, and it has been suspiciously easy. 👀

2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 4. Embodied cognition. YouTube video by Josh Bongard

Lecture 4 of evolutionary robotics course: Embodied cognition.

youtu.be/qBqlQsq1mXQ

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Any suggestion or tip? 😅

It's a fact, I will be working on inner speech! 🤓

A particularly sultry black-and-white image of Paul and Patricia Churchland

My partner's visual cortex and my visual cortex stimulated as a result of photons reflecting off of you across the bar, causing us to have pleasure sensations 420 and 69. Now our prefrontal cortices are directing our mouths to ask if we can buy you a drink

Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification!

Indeed. Even tho I'm not sure if it's the easiest option, but I do think that it's more viable to make some progress in that subject. 😅

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the expression. What do you mean? 😅