Higher-Level Cognition Under Predictive Processing: Structural Representations and Grounded Cognition - Minds and Machines Minds and Machines - Predictive processing posits that prediction-error minimization underlies all perception, action, and cognition. Yet, despite its considerable popularity and explanatory scope,...

Out now in Minds Mach! 🚨
How can predictive processing account for abstract concepts?

We show how life-mind continuity could extend to account for a central defining feature of humans. Simulation, language, exaptation, and small-scale models

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Bodily minded skill: active inference, flowing individuals, and the credit we owe them - Synthese Synthese - The flow state has historically been a source of mystery and, at times, mysticism. Whereas some accounts of flow allude to the flowing individual’s conscious absorption and focus,...

New paper by myself and Tom Montefiore, out now in Synthese!

Bodily minded skill: active inference, flowing individuals, and the credit we owe them

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LLM-“Friends” are Hostile Scaffolds in the Age of Loneliness - Minds and Machines Minds and Machines - The use of large language models (LLMs) for companionship is rapidly increasing. As “friends”, LLMs act as scaffolds to the development and enactment of our ongoing...

New paper by Siavosh Sahebi and myself, now out in Minds and Machines!

LLM-“Friends” are Hostile Scaffolds in the Age of Loneliness

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What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

Very excited to have the first paper of my PhD — What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away — published in @phimisci.bsky.social !

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What's people's relationship with uncertainty? Recently I get the feeling it's not only to be avoided, but actively purged from the matrix of thoughts. Why? #PhilCognition

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The circle dance of personal identity Philosopher Ola Nilsson is back with another one of his mind-boggling, and yet irresistibly compelling, thought experiments. This time he shows, with surprisingly few words, how one universal mind can...

My latest written essay was published yesterday!

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Steam Engines – Life as motion and valves
Electricity – Life as defined by electrical charges
Computers – Life as a computational process
Neural Networks – Life as adaptive information processing
Quantum Computing – Life as superposition

What next?
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According to eliminativism, we do not dream when we dream, so what are we actually doing when we (do not) dream?
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Physicalism relates to physics as an apple relates to a pineapple. They share part of their spelling but are two Completely different things. I read and hear people who say that physicalism has been successful?! Compared to what? Religion?
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Which philosopher has had the greatest impact on you and your work (and why)?
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Are you a moral realist? Why/why not?
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Use If and only if only if you need.
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If the world consisted Only of two lights blinking alternately, with Nothing and no one keeping count, then we could not speak of a direction of time. Rather, that time itself is reset after each blinking.
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Do you feel how fast time goes? can you feel it accelerating year by year?
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This debate is going to be very cool and you should not miss it. Registrations are open #philsky #philosophy #philmind #philcognition

Delighted to share a feed for Philosophy of Delusion.🎯

It's based on the Philosophy of Delusion starter pack. Comment or DM if you'd like to be added.🤝

#PhilPsychiatry, #PhilDelusion, #PhilMind, #PhilCognition, #PhilConsciousness, #PhilPerception, #philsci, #cogsci, #philosophy, #philsky

I've created a feed for academic Philosophy of Psychiatry.

It's based on the Philosophy of Psychiatry starter pack. Comment or DM me if you'd like to be added.🤝

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Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion - Neuroethics How many factors, i.e. departures from normality, are necessary to explain a delusion? Maher’s classic one-factor theory argues that the only factor is the patient’s anomalous experience, and a delusi...

Here is my original paper challenging the one-factor theory of delusion.

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Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again - Neuroethics Chenwei Nie ([22]) argues against a Maherian one-factor approach to explaining delusion. We argue that his objections fail. They are largely based on a mistaken understanding of the approach (as commi...

Here is the link to their commentary, which I highly recommend.

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Tags appear to be working for the philosophy of delusion starter pack. So, adding them here too: #PhilPsychiatry, #PhilDelusion, #PhilMind, #PhilCognition, #PhilConsciousness, #PhilPerception, #philpsy, #philsci, #cogsci, #philosophy, #philsky

just learnt that tags are useful? So here is a test: #PhilDelusion, #PhilPsychiatry, #PhilMind, #PhilCognition, #PhilConsciousness, #PhilPerception, #philpsy, #philsci, #cogsci, #philosophy, #philsky

NeuroExp 2025 - Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience: From empirical case studies to philosophical analysis - Sciencesconf.org

Call for Papers!

NeuroExp 2025 - Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience: From empirical case studies to philosophical analysis
19.-21. Februrary 2025

Further info: neuroexp2025.sciencesconf.org

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