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Maria Luiza Iennaco

Greetings! I am a joint PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, supervised by Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Frota Pessoa Juni...

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My book on consciousness at Oxford University Press is now available! It is titled House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness. The (open access) pdf can be downloaded for free on Oxford Academic: academic.oup.com/book/62981 Printed copies should be available at the end of July.

House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness

Abstract. This book provides a defense and an exploration of illusionism regarding phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness supposedly encompasse

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I've been thinking about time, and it appears that my algorithm knows it. aeon.co/essays/when-...

Feliz em compartilhar mais um artigo de cunho introdutório sobre o Cérebro Bayesiano em português 🤓 🧠. Desta vez, falamos um pouco dele no contexto de aprendizagem e educação 📒 ✏️ . Olha só: periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.ph...

No dia 29/04/26, falarei um pouco sobre o que se sabe sobre atenção no cérebro preditivo no 3º Workshop do GEMA. Será online e gratuito, é só se registrar! :) Mais info: gemaphilo.wixsite.com/-gema/post/t...

We had a great time at UFABC-São Bernardo these past two days, debating our work and the interrelation between philosophy and neuroscience for cognition studies. Thank you all for coming, and I hope to see you again soon!

Join our KLI Colloquium: "A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology" Speaker: Denis WALSH (University of Toronto) 🕒 16 April 2026, 3:00 PM CEST 🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/content/en/e...)

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

Krys Dolega@krysdolega.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

New paper out in Adaptive Behavior! On why cognitive scientists need a better account of purposive of behaviour, why cybernetics and dynamical systems won't do the trick, and how biological autonomy might. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Bergson's "Creative Evolution", (Chapter III) | Epoché Magazine

A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly

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Classic predictive coding: V1 predicts low-level features, higher areas high-level. But recent studies + AI models suggest prediction happens at higher levels of abstraction. Who's right? In new work w/ @wiegerscheurer.bsky.social we find that both are – distinct regimes across the visual field

Wieger Scheurer@wiegerscheurer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New preprint! w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social We found that, even during simple natural scene viewing, human visual cortex predicts—hierarchically in central vision and at higher levels peripherally—reconciling classical predictive coding with recent evidence from animal models and AI (e.g. JEPA) (1/10)

The ISPSM is happy to announce a double book symposium on: Kate Nave's A Drive to Survive & Jakob Hohwy's The Self-Evidencing Agent May 12, H 10:00 CEST Subscription form Here: forms.gle/NGkFaVYHS7Lk... #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD project! In it, I explore what a neurophilosophical approach to attention might look like. The article is open access, so feel free to take a look! 🤓 periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/pr...

When science and gamers assemble :) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science

The 1990s game has been run on bacteria and a satellite and played by neurons in a dish.

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I finally finished my manuscript on the status of attention in predictive models!!!!!!!!! Holy shit, this took way too long. Now comes yet the worst part: reviewing

Join us at the 2nd Workshop UFABC-USP: Philosophy and Neuroscience! 🧠 It will be an in-person-only conference, and we have some bursaries to help students attend the conference in São Bernardo. The submission deadline was extended to March 08th. More info here: sites.google.com/view/ufabc-u...

I had THAT dream of explaining my entire thesis to my supervisor, and it made sense, he liked and everything. Problem is: I can't remember what I said!!!! Just that the explanation started with "the narrative account of illusionism".

Carnival is over, so happy New Year from Brazil!

📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚 “Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...

📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚

Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a…

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Look at that open access gem! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing

How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is

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Back to Brazil and already suffering the physical distance. So many cool events are happening this year, and I'm too far away. Sad.

Friendly reminder: #CogSci2026 submissions close on Feb 2. And don't forget: we're planning a fully synchronous hybrid conference for 2026, with options to present in Rio de Janeiro or virtually. cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

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Tomas Marvan 🇪🇺@tmarvan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for abstracts - Ernst Mach Workshop on Aesthetic Attention w/ Paloma Atencia-Linares and Bence Nanay, deadline March 20 emw.flu.cas.cz?p=98

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? "High-resolution activity maps of PFC did NOT align with cytoarchitecturally defined subregions." Key tenet in neuroscience is that cytoarchitectonic boundaries correspond to functional ones. NB: study in the mouse #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🔔✨Call for papers and symposia on Frances Egan’s (@francesegan.bsky.social) ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04) alongside Neural Mechanisms Online and Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social)! More info: tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan #philsky

Since it's such a stressful time, I thought I'd give you all a little treat: a website streaming over 4,000 public domain movies, neatly categorized. (You can thank me later.) wikiflix.toolforge.org#/

My Facebook account has been almost impossible to access because they keep denying my login from the pc. Now the same thing apparently happened with Instagram. Am I having a forced social media 'weaning'? I'm not complaining though, I wanted to do it, but I thought it'd be by myself, not by meta xD

The Visual Attention Lab @visualattentionlab.bsky.social is recruiting for a postdoc (and this link should work!) So, if you know an about-to-finish PhD (or recent PhD) interested in search and why we fail to find what we're looking for... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky #CogPsych