for those in Beijing, i will talk about Conscious Perception & the Prefrontal Cortex there next Sunday (Oct 18) hub.baai.ac.cn/view/58276

从婴儿心智到AI意识，北大认知推理日带你追问认知起源 - 智源社区

北京大学第三届认知推理大会将于2026年10月17–18日在北京大学中关新园举行，主题为“认知的起源：从核心知识到机器心智”。会议聚焦婴儿对物体、数量、几何及社会主体的早期理解，动物交流机制，大脑支持社会互动的神经基础，以及AI意识可能性与机器心智的发展前景，旨在融合发展心理学、神经科学、动物行为学与人工智能等多学科视角，探索人类与机器认知的共性与边界。

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Navier-Stokes is Turing-complete. so, good news for all of you who are planning on building a computer made entirely of viscous fluid that you stir to make it go

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 6d ago

Fucking WHAT

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

New preprint! Can LLMs really know when they know? We trained 10 open models to predict their own accuracy and found a striking limit: out of distribution, confidence tracks consistency more than correctness. Led by @nicolasyax.bsky.social with @pyoudeyer.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2609.33886

We're thrilled to share that @felipedebrigard.bsky.social has been named a 2026 MacArthur Genius Fellow for his work reshaping our understanding of the nature and function of memory. Felipe is the co-editor of "Neuroscience and Philosophy II,” publishing next month: www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

The core technical claim (drawn from Bender & Koller) of the stochastic parrots paper about LMs is that systems trained on language alone can only learn its form, not its meaning (which requires grounding). Thus, that *a priori* these systems could not exhibit understanding. 2/

Our paper “Confidence is detection-like in high-dimensional spaces” is now published in Open Mind, led by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social and @kevingoneill.github.io direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Confidence Is Detection-Like in High-Dimensional Spaces

Abstract. Confidence estimates are often “detection-like”—driven by positive evidence in favour of a decision. This empirical observation has been interpreted as showing that human metacognition is li...

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We are delighted to welcome Prof Helen Steward, who will deliver the annual Jacobsen Lecture on 22 Oct. Join us for "Is There a Metaphysics of Causation?”, hosted by the Jacobsen Trust Fund & the IP. philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @uolondon.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Jacobsen Lecture: Prof Helen Steward, Is there a metaphysics of causation?

This event is brought to you by the Jacobsen Trust Fund and the SAS Institute of Philosophy

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What is information, really? Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, we propose a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits Finally published: “Four faces of information in natural systems” 🧵

Me reading Fodor

When is distinguishing imagery from perception really a problem? Is this ever just trivial? In this paper, together with philosopher Nick Shea and @smfleming.bsky.social, we aimed to answer "Why do we need imagination-reality monitoring?" -now out in #NCONSC! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Why do we need imagination–reality monitoring?

Abstract. The ability to imagine scenarios decoupled from the immediate environment supports a wide range of cognitive functions, such as planning, memory,

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📣Algorithmic Grammar of Flexible Cognition: A Walk through Latent Operations osf.io/preprints/ps... Flexible behavior moves adaptively btwn cognitive modes. But units of analysis remain representations & few operations. Proposal: formalize open-ended cognition as walk over latent operations 1/n

New preprint just dropped! With the unstoppable @norabradford.bsky.social at the helm and support from Tomàs Ortega and Brian Maniscalco: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is a wrap for #CCN2026! We look forward to meet again in Edinburgh next year!

We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...

Open Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies

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Mindscape 363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins. Food for thought here, whether you are biological or silicon! #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

So excited to share my work with @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @khoudary.bsky.social at CCN. My poster session will be at Wed 2:00-3:45 🤩 Come and visit!!

megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!

Interested in how we plan over our imagination? Come to Brazil 🇧🇷 & my poster P1-E-37 at #CogSci2026! Here, @smfleming.bsky.social and I use computational modelling to demonstrate that planning over our imaginations, untethered from perception, relies on mental representations.

Are you interested in metacognition/ individual differences/ Bayesian modeling/ psychometrics? I'm thrilled to present our poster at #CogSci2026 🇧🇷 next week! Come check it out and chat! 📍Poster number P1-E-41 📅 2:45 pm, July 23 👥 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

A fundamental discovery ! Immanuel Kant would have loved it.

Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

So very excited!! 🥹 And so many thanks to @meganakpeters.bsky.social for taking me on!!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎉 Introducing the 2026 Neuromatch AI Sentience Scholars cohort! Learn more about them, the projects they will be working on, and their mentors! ⬇️ neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... We're just kicking off this 6 month program and already incredibly proud! #AISentience #AIResearch #ConsciousnessStudies

A new paper, forthcoming in PPR: Visual Icons This paper took me more than 5 years to write. It argues that the visual system constructs imagistic representations ("visual icons") and sketches a theory of how visual icons, and iconic representations generally, are compositionally structured.

Functionalists should insist that what matters for consciousness is whether a system fulfills a function, not whether it is fit for a function. If you put my heart on a table it's fit for pumping blood but it doesn't fulfill its function. Same for an isolated global workspace.

i now have an account on the Chinese social media site "little red book" where i talk about conscioousness (especially re: how the field of research is going these days), and my upcoming book xhslink.com/o/2t6UQbMavab

Hello 我叫刘克頑 - 小红书

3 亿人的生活经验，都在小红书

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Congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social for winning the @theassc.bsky.social's William James Prize for her paper A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Read more here: theassc.org/james-prize/

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality

Dijkstra et al. show that our brain distinguishes imagination from reality by monitoring how strongly the fusiform gyrus is activated. When imagined and real images produce similar activity, people ca...

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