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unless electrons assume the salience of oxygen #AI will always lack organismic sentience

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The problem of explaining shifting targets - European Journal for Philosophy of Science European Journal for Philosophy of Science - 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...

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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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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Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling

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

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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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Developing Concepts for Neuroscience: A Philosophical Toolkit Whether and how concepts should be developed depends on the phenomena that neuroscientists aim to describe, classify, and explain. These epistemic goals shape when introducing novel terms like “defau...

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.
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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:

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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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Thinking Takes Energy A new study shows how our brain metabolism sets the limits of thinking. Researchers explain why cognitive models remain incomplete without considering biological resources.

More press about our BBS paper on metabolism and cognition:

aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...

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Thinking Takes Energy A new study shows how our brain metabolism sets the limits of thinking. Researchers explain why cognitive models remain incomplete without considering biological resources.

More press on our recent Behavioral and Brain Sciences article:

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aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/11/24/t...

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Last chance to submit! 📢
Submit to PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams by 30 November

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Bei Gehirnmodellen den Stoffwechsel mitdenken MCMP-Studie: Kognitive Theorien sollten metabolische Grenzen berücksichtigen

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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Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling

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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...

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Knowing what to believe | Stephen M. Fleming Stephen M. Fleming outlines new experiments that image the brain as we make decisions and considers how we can know what to believe.

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.

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Looking forward to this!
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www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026

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fine-tuning some LLM atm and laughing at the possibility of their moral status, regular sundays.

#llm #philosophysky #philsky #ml #cogsci #cogscisky #cogsky #artificialintelligence

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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

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Cool study I saw in #CogSky, linguists have thoughts?
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Knowing what to believe | Stephen M. Fleming Stephen M. Fleming outlines new experiments that image the brain as we make decisions and considers how we can know what to believe.

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.

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Perception as a fantasy Join us as world-leading cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman discusses his cutting-edge research about consciousness and perception, as well as its astonishing implications for the ultimate nature of…

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.

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The risks of erasing our desire with Ozempic | Uku Tooming Drugs like Ozempic can target and erase our desire for food – and perhaps other cravings too. This pathologises desire as something that exists outside of us, to which we passively submit. But in…

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.

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Change Thyself: your personality is a moral issue | Andrea Lavazza and Mirko Farina Our personalities are not morally neutral. Temperament can make us act more or less morally and we thus have an ethical obligation to improve our personalities argue Andrea Lavazza and Mirko Farina.

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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You can die while your body lives | Lukas J. Meier What is death? Lukas Meier argues that what matters is the death of the psyche, not the organism – so brain-death just is, for our purposes, death.

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.

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The reality gap | Nadine Dijkstra, Omari Edwards

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.

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#ArtificialIntelligence #neuroskyence #cogsky (is that a thing?)

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The price of distraction | Wayne Wu We have all become addicted to our phones. This is having disastrous consequences. We must treat attention as a skill, and practice at it just like we would any other, writes Wayne Wu.

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.

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Better left unsaid 'Unexpressed emotions never die... but are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways' claimed Sigmund Freud. Today we've gone a step further with the assumption that expressing feelings is…

'Unexpressed emotions never die... but are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways' claimed Sigmund Freud. | buff.ly/Rt0b3Rb

Join Theodore Dalrymple, Vanessa King, and Simon Wessely to debate whether Freud was dangerously wrong.

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The devil in all of us Many have had the experience of an urge to do something wrong just for the hell of it. From walking on grass we're told to keep off to fantasies of violence towards someone we find a minor annoyance.…

Many have had the experience of an urge to do something wrong just for the hell of it. | buff.ly/GYl7T83

Join Yale psychologist @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social as he invites us to see the clever, creative and beautiful side of our impulses toward evil.

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