unless electrons assume the salience of oxygen #AI will always lack organismic sentience
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#cogsky
Sometimes we try to explain one thing but end up explaining something else. In this paper, I address when this is a problem, which I call the “Problem of Explaining Shifting Targets” (PEST).
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(Available open access)
The body, on this view, is not a passive vessel or a set of peripheral constraints, but an active shaping force whose structures and dynamics are indispensable to the realization of perception, conceptualization, judgment, reasoning, and action.
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As a final reminder, the deadline for commentary proposals for our BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is next Tuesday, February 3. For details, follow the link. Please share if you can
@phaueis.bsky.social
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Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
Ruhr University Bochum (and Online) 18–20 Feb 2026
🔗 Register here: forms.gle/e4mW9MT3o2q8...
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Paper on developing concepts for neuroscience now published open access:
doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
We argue that the success and failure of concepts fundamentally depends on epistemic goals.
#cogsky #neuroskyence #cognitiveneuroscience #philsky #philsci #philosophysky #cogsci
The Deadline for Commentary Proposals for our target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is Tuesday, February 3, 2026. For details, follow the reposted link below:
@phaueis.bsky.social
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We extended the deadline for submission!
Submit to PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams by 15 December
Submit here 👉
forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9...
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#neuroskyence
More press about our BBS paper on metabolism and cognition:
aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...
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More press on our recent Behavioral and Brain Sciences article:
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aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...
Last chance to submit! 📢
Submit to PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams by 30 November
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For German speakers, LMU just posted a press release on our BBS target article „Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling“
www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...
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@phaueis.bsky.social and I have had our paper, “Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling,” accepted as a target article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Just like the ancient Greek proverb, “know thyself”, new cognitive neuroscience suggests that cultivating self-awareness is key to wisdom. | iai.tv/articles/knowing-what-to...
Stephen Fleming considers in this article how we can know what to believe.
#cogsky #philsci 🧪
Looking forward to this!
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www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
fine-tuning some LLM atm and laughing at the possibility of their moral status, regular sundays.
#llm #philosophysky #philsky #ml #cogsci #cogscisky #cogsky #artificialintelligence
Where would we be if amazing innovators and leading world figures throughout history gave up? | https://bit.ly/3W5iTUF
And yet, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips argues that, for most of us, refusing to give up has dark and hidden consequences.
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Here is a summary of our contribution to www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...
by @marielgoddu.bsky.social
#cogsky #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience 🧠🧪
Cool study I saw in #CogSky, linguists have thoughts?
#Anthropology 🏺
Just like the ancient Greek proverb, “know thyself”, new cognitive neuroscience suggests that cultivating self-awareness is key to wisdom. | iai.tv/articles/kno...
Stephen Fleming considers in this article how we can know what to believe.
#philsky #philsci #cogsky 🧪
Is perception a fantasy? | iai.tv/video/percep...
Join Donald Hoffman to discuss his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of reality.
#philsky #consky #cogsky
Drugs like Ozempic can target and erase our desire for food, but in losing our desires do we risk losing valuable parts of our existence? | iai.tv/articles/the...
@uku237.bsky.social argues that we should use our imagination to harness it to better ends.
#medsky #cogsky
Are all personalities morally equal? | iai.tv/articles/cha...
Andrea Lavazza and Mirko Farina would disagree, arguing that we all have an ethical obligation to improve our personalities.
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Do we know what death is? | iai.tv/articles/the...
Lukas Meier argues that we should stop thinking of death as biological; what matters is not the death of an organism, but the death of the psyche.
#philsky #cogsky
Our brains do not just passively perceive the world—they construct it. | iai.tv/articles/the...
Nadine Dijkstra reveals the brain’s “reality threshold,” the role of vividness in hallucination, and what this means for mental health and future technologies.
#cogsky #philsky #medsky
#ArtificialIntelligence #neuroskyence #cogsky (is that a thing?)
If we were honest with ourselves, we are all addicted to our phones, scrolling on social media, checking emails, permanently distracted. | buff.ly/WZov0Eu
We must treat attention as a skill, and practice at it just like we would any other, writes Wayne Wu.
#socsky #philtech #cogsky