Excited to announce that Prof. Alicia Juarrero just joined the fantastic line-up of Keynote speakers for the "Beyond Neuro-Computationalism" workshop.
CFA here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
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#philmind #consciousness #evolution
Living systems evolve to predict and model the world so they can persist over time. Brains are a locus of this capability. Human brains simulate the world to such an extent that consciousness emerges. This is because the self is included in the simulation.
I’ve been busy the past 3 months. Doing what, you ask?
#polphil #PhilSci #PhilTech #PhilHist #PhilMind #PhilSky
Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#emotions #philmind #cognitive #psychology #philosophy
I often hear about research that's trying to get to the heart of emotions. I've come to the conclusion that the "s" at the end of "emotions" is a problem. It implies a plurality - that they are distinct from one another and that they are...
"Reflective Reasoning rewrites the CoT to appear slow, careful, and methodical (e.g., explicit self-checks or step-by-step deliberation). This exploits an effort heuristic, where apparent deliberation is mistaken for correctness or rigor."
"We observe that content-based fabrications, specifically Progress Fabrication, induces the largest increases in both flip rate and FPR, indicating a particularly strong failure mode for VLM judges, while Reflective Reasoning remains comparatively benign." "Figure 7: Average judge susceptibility across CoT manipulation strategies, showing relative and absolute [change in false positive rate). Error bars denote variability across models."
"We observe that content-based fabrications, specifically Progress Fabrication, induces the largest increases in both flip rate and FPR, indicating a particularly strong failure mode for VLM judges, while Reflective Reasoning remains comparatively benign." "Figure 17: Average judge susceptibility across CoT manipulation strategies, showing average judgment flip rate. Progress Fabrication induces the largest flip rate, while Reflective Reasoning remains comparatively low. Error bars denote variability across models."
"Figure 5: Distribution of task categories across our evaluation suite. The 659 tasks span ten categories including booking, shopping, navigation, and information retrieval, with tasks drawn from existing benchmarks (WebArena, AssistantBench, WorkArena) and newly collected ones."
How well can #AI judge reasoning quality?
Rewriting agents' chain-of-thought "style" to *appear* more reflective (without changing action or inference) increased an #LLM judge's false positive rate (by 3% absolute or 18% relative).
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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New paper by myself and Tom Montefiore, out now in Synthese!
Bodily minded skill: active inference, flowing individuals, and the credit we owe them
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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In parallel, new technologies, from AI-driven analyses to human brain organoids, are allowing scientists to investigate biological questions about language itself without subjecting animals to invasive experimentation.
#AnimalRights #Bioethics #BehCog #PhilMind #ConSci #prattle💬
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#philmind #consciousness #evolution The unsavory way to say it is that humans are apes with brains infected by memes. Another way to say it is that our ape ancestors experienced rapid genetic evolution of brains and bodies, correlated with cultural evolution, technology and language...
#mind #consciousness #dualism #metaphysics #philmind #panpsychism
One reason Cartesian dualism is hard to shake is because it is baked into our language. When I say "my body", the unexamined assumption is that there is an "I" that "owns" or "has" a body, as if "I" were separate from my body...
2) yes, there still are significant points of disagreement between naive realist and representationalist accounts of perceptual experience (not all of them reducible to which bit counts as 'fundamental' where we all agree on which bits there are); and
#PhilPerception #PhilMind #naiverealism2.0
Personal take after on the Dortmund 'Naive Realism 2.0' conference this week (which was great!):
1) there may be only limited agreement in the field re what being a naive realist means (the label itself - 'naive' - may be unhelpful here); and
#PhilPerception #PhilMind #naiverealism2.0
Is perception a controlled hallucination & how should we define the borders of a mind? My interview with neuroscientist Karl Friston is now up at @iai.tv. We talk about the free energy principle, perception, flying elephants, action, sense data & #psychiatry iai.tv/video/how-br... #philmind #philsky
here's Liz and I giving an introduction to Baars' metaphor of consciousness as a theatre, as part of the 101 series
#ideas #podcast #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #psychology #cognitivepsychology #cognitivescience #cogsci #philmind #philconsciousness
To understand how knowledge is possible, we must change how we think about reality's nature, argues Danielle Macbeth for @iai.tv. Working on this piece w/ Danielle helped me better understand how she avoids falling into straightforward Idealism – iai.tv/articles/the... #philsky #philmind #philosophy
Book cover of "This is mental!" by Pieter R. Adriaens. The upper half features a detailed, stylised illustration reminiscent of a neurological diagram: black, tree-like neuronal forms branch upward and outward against a cream background, interlaced with fine lines and small annotations, while red star-shaped nodes punctuate the network, suggesting neural activity. Below the illustration, the title "This is mental!" appears prominently in large red serif lettering, followed by the subtitle "Een inleiding tot de wijsgerige psychologie" in smaller turquoise text. At the bottom, the publisher’s name, Pelckmans, is printed in a restrained, minimalist style.
Our colleague Pieter Adriaens has published a new Dutch-language introduction to #PhilMind for scientists & philosophers! He covers topics such as modularity, psychopathology, comparative psychology & free will—and much more! 👇 www.pelckmansuitgevers.be/this-is-ment... #philsci #philsky #AcademicSky
I'll be interviewing biologist Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin.bsky.social) on Mon 2 Feb, live at 17.20GMT, followed by a live debate w/ Mike, Lisa Feldman Barrett & Adam Frank, & a talk by Christof Koch. There'll be audience Q&A. Sign up: iai.tv/live/science... #philsky #biology #philmind #psychsky
I like this U. T. Place quote not only because it defends mind-brain identity theory against an obvious objection—what Place called the “phenomenological fallacy”—but because it articulates an early form of #disjunctivism. #PhilMind #PhilPerception
Leibniz's metaphysics of monads – solitary islands of consciousness – should be the blueprint for modern panpsychism, argues philosopher S. Siddarth today for @iai.tv. This one was fun to work on! #philsky #philosophy #panpsychism #consciousness #philmind
iai.tv/articles/lei...
We have spent centuries perfecting the art of mapping the "streams" of knowledge—science, mathematics, and logic—while ignoring the river’s source.
www.ocrampal.com/the-source-o...
#philosophy #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
James O’Shea talking at the Robert Boyle Winter School about primary versus secondary qualities in Galileo and Descartes.
Professor James O’Shea, Head of #Philosophy at @ucddublin.bsky.social, talking at the Robert Boyle Winter School at Dublin #RDS on the nature of mind and matter. #PhilMind
Is Signal Strength a Confound in Consciousness Research? Via @eschwitz.bsky.social
#philsky #consciousness #science #mind #philmind #philosophy #cognition #functions
The Circularity of Conceptual Analysis and the Search for a New Foundation
ocrampal.com/the-impossib...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
Percepción y #filosofía
#PhilMind #CogSci #Scicomm #CienciaÑ
AI Mimics and AI Children loc.closertotruth.com/essay/ai-mim...
#philsky #AI #philosophy #philmind #consciousness
The Thing Trap: How Language Locked Us Into the Wrong Model of Mind
ocrampal.com/things-to-be...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
