Darius Parvizi-Wayne
@dariusparviziwayne.bsky.social
philosophy PhD student: being-in-the-world, active inference, skilful coping, relevance
Very much enjoyed dialoging with John Vervaeke on the Love and Philosophy podcast. We focus on Iris Murdoch and The Sovereignty of Good, discussing Frankfurt, Heidegger and much more along the way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lE...
Love, Attention & Meaning with John Vervaeke & Darius Parvizi-Wayne (and Iris Murdoch)
YouTube video by Love & Philosophy with Andrea Hiott
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New paper with Tom Montefiore — The formal-temporal normativity of unreflective skilled action — just accepted at Ergo! philpapers.org/rec/PARTFN
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New paper out in Review of Philosophy and Psychology with Rasmus Pedersen and Jules Rankin — Judging Passage and Passing Judgment: From Distrusting the Present to an Error Dynamics Account of Passage of Time Judgments link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Judging Passage and Passing Judgment: From Distrusting the Present to an Error Dynamics Account of Passage of Time Judgments - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Despite our proclivity to make either tacit or overt passage of time judgments in daily life, insufficient work has been done to uncover the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning such determinations....
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Anyone know of any philosophical work looking at whether large language models persist through time? Preferably beyond (although not necessarily excluding) considerations of memory.
I am delighted to share Markus Pantsar's (@markuspantsar.bsky.social) and my new contribution to the philosophy of AI. Out now in Synthese (Open Access)! #philsky 1/3 doi.org/10.1007/s112...
Why mental metaphors do not help us understand chatbot mistakes - Synthese
Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...
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Very much enjoyed being on the Footnotes2Plato podcast with Matt Segall and Tim Jackson discussing the frame problem, the limits of effective theorisation, the importance of alterity, flow, ethics and so much more! @footnotes2plato.substack.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQiX...
The Problem with Frames: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Agency (with Darius Parvizi-Wayne and Tim Jackson)
YouTube video by Footnotes2Plato
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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... #PhilMind #PhilCognition #Philpsy #Philsky
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,...
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New paper by Siavosh Sahebi and myself, now out in Minds and Machines! LLM-“Friends” are Hostile Scaffolds in the Age of Loneliness link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilCognition #Philsky
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...
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Ontologizing Enactivism: Worldmaking with Ezequiel Di Paolo (dialogue with Tim Jackson) Timothy Jackson and I were back in the saddle, this time to discuss Ezequiel Di Paolo’s article seeking an enactive ontology: Di Paolo, E. A. (2023). F/acts: Ways of enactive worldmaking. Journal of…
Ontologizing Enactivism: Worldmaking with Ezequiel Di Paolo (dialogue with Tim Jackson)
Timothy Jackson and I were back in the saddle, this time to discuss Ezequiel Di Paolo’s article seeking an enactive ontology: Di Paolo, E. A. (2023). F/acts: Ways of enactive worldmaking. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 30 (11–12): 159-89. doi: 10.53765/20512201.30.11.159. Ezequiel will be joining us to present in the biophilosophy track at this summer’s International Whitehead Conference in China…
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Here is an opinionated overview in press at Philosophy Compass. Critical 4E cognitive science, as we call this emerging research program, adopts the 4E frameworks and concepts but with a critical lens: questioning its hidden assumptions and leveraging its theoretical resources for social criticism.
Shen-yi Liao & Zoe Brinner, Critical 4E Cognitive Science - PhilPapers
According to 4E cognitive science, our cognitive capacities depend on, and have been transformed by, the environments we have made. Most early works of 4E cognitive science tend to focus on ...
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If anyone has a pdf (or access to a pdf) of Hans Jonas' Biological Foundations of Individuality, please let me know!
Now published in Biological Reviews! Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Continual decision‐making dynamics across biological organisms
Decision-making is a central function of adaptive behaviour in biological agents. However, strategies for adaptive decision-making can vary substantially across species. Here, we aim to extend the co...
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What is this ‘attention economy’? Is there really a market where people buy and sell human attention? If so, what’s wrong with that? New paper by Katharine Browne and me that argues: yes, there is an attention market and yes, there is something wrong with it. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The attention market—and what is wrong with it - Philosophical Studies
Attention is described as a “scarce commodity” that is traded in “a marketplace.” This, it is further claimed, contributes to a “widespread sense of attentional crisis.” But is there really an attenti...
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#PhiMiSci published a new standalone article: In “What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away”, Darius Parvizi-Wayne argues that both new and old attempts to solve the frame problem on the basis of the active inference framework are explanatorily inadequate.
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...
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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 ! philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... #PhilMind #PhilCognition #Philpsy #Philsky
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...
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'The Idealized Mind: From Model-based Science to Cognitive Science' published by MIT Press. Claims: models of the mind are idealized models; this is consistent with scientific realism; yet, it blocks realism about neural representation and neural computation based on evidence from neuroscience.
We are very excited to share the conference schedule and book of abstracts for this year’s ISPSM! 💫 Link to schedule: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025sch... Link to book of abstracts: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025boo... #philmind #philsky
Timetables to share
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Techno-Wantons: Adaptive Technology and the Will of Tomorrow - Topoi
Recent work within the tradition of 4E cognitive science and philosophy of mind has drawn attention to the ways that our technological, material, and social environments can act as hostile, oppressive...
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Call for abstracts: Workshop “Evaluating Artificial Consciousness”: eac-2025.sciencesconf.org 10-11 June 2025 at RUB Bochum #PhilMind #consciousness #consci #sentience #Ethics #CogSci
Evaluating Artificial Consciousness 2025 - Sciencesconf.org
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Article: "Flow and intuition: a systems neuroscience comparison" Coauthors: Steven Kotler @dariusparviziwayne.bsky.social Michael Mannino academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Flow and intuition: a systems neuroscience comparison
Abstract. This paper explores the relationship between intuition and flow from a neurodynamics perspective. Flow and intuition represent two cognitive phen
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New paper alert! Flow and Intuition, out now in Neuroscience of Consciousness. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... Very happy to have worked on this with Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, and Karl Friston. The era of habitual mental actions is upon us!
Flow and intuition: a systems neuroscience comparison
Abstract. This paper explores the relationship between intuition and flow from a neurodynamics perspective. Flow and intuition represent two cognitive phen
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