Philip Laughlin
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Very excited to be involved with this much needed effort as a senior editor, a new journal focused on natural and artificial minds, please submit your work!
Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d agoHello 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
Determining whether an artificial system could possess inner experience depends on whether consciousness requires a specific biological substrate or… Consciousness and AI by Patrick Butlin https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.d3359a9d #CognitiveScience
Happy to be serving as editor for MMB. Excited about what is to come.
Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d agoHello 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
August 4 #OA spotlight: "What Makes Us Social?" by Chris Frith and Uta Frith @cogneuronews.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
What Makes Us Social?
A deep dive into the social mind-brain, examining the processes we share with other social animals and illuminating those that are uniquely human.What Make
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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 3d agoWith @cogcompneuro.bsky.social right around the corner, here is the Aug 2 @mitpress.bsky.social open access spotlight: "Syntax: A Cognitive Approach" by Ted Gibon. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Love to see the classics cited in new talks! (Quine, 'Word and Object' MITP, 1960)
CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · yesterdayWelcome to the second day of #CCN2026! This sunny day in NYC includes Brenden Lake's keynote, two contributed talk sessions, poster sessions A & B, the special Back2NY panel, and three GAC debates.
A new venue for work at the intersection of human and machine cognition. Excited to be involved as an Associate Editor!
Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d agoHello 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
Yay, the field needs this! Excited to serve as an associate editor!
Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d agoHello 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
New MIT Press journal for the intersection between cognitive science, neuroscience and machine learning research. Looking forward to being involved in this!
Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d agoHello 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
Most books have already been claimed, but there are still a few gems remaining. Grab your @mitpress.bsky.social book before it's too late!
Thanks to our friends @cogcompneuro.bsky.social for announcing our new journal MINDS, MACHINES, & BRAINS at this morning's keynote. We're excited to be collaborating with you on this!
Knowledge is rarely a solitary pursuit, yet our theories of how we learn often ignore the complex social networks that validate what we believe. Social Epistemology by Mandi Astola and Mark Alfano https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e29a27cc #CognitiveScience
Like magic, all the books i've been posting about the past month have shown up at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social. Stop by and check them out if you are in the neighborhood!
Thrilled to be on the board of this new OA journal that fills a critical niche! Kudos to the co-Editors-in-Chief (@lisik.bsky.social,KendrickKay,ElliePavlick) and a big TY to @mitpress.bsky.social for supporting this important effort! JIT for @cogcompneuro.bsky.social :) Send us your stuff (soon!)
Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d agoHello 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
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
Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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With @cogcompneuro.bsky.social right around the corner, here is the Aug 2 @mitpress.bsky.social open access spotlight: "Syntax: A Cognitive Approach" by Ted Gibon. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Syntax: A Cognitive Approach
A simple grammar formalism—dependency grammar—motivated by the observation that longer distance connections between words are harder to make.Syntax provide
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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 4d agoAugust 1 #OA spotlight: "Just in Time Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience" by G. Gabrielle Starr @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
No 'bot' account/profile is as trustworthy as @oecs-bot.bsky.social. The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS), an update to the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, aims to provide 'open/accessible/authoritative-scientific/broad but focused/fundamentally interdisciplinary' articles. 1/2
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot@oecs-bot.bsky.social · 5d agoCognitive scientists prioritize how humans process and transmit information over traditional distinctions between truth and falsity. Information and Misinformation by Andrew Perfors https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a2555670 #CognitiveScience
August 1 #OA spotlight: "Just in Time Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience" by G. Gabrielle Starr @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time.How does beauty exist in time? This is Gabrie
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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 5d agoJuly 31 #OA spotlight: "Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality" by Richard Parncutt @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Cognitive scientists prioritize how humans process and transmit information over traditional distinctions between truth and falsity. Information and Misinformation by Andrew Perfors https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a2555670 #CognitiveScience
July 31 #OA spotlight: "Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality" by Richard Parncutt @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.Despite the cultur
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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 6d agoJuly 29 #OA spotlight: STINKING PHILOSOPHY! by Benjamin Young @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026254888...
Live sighting of my book in a Beijing bookstore, courtesy of Ruiting Jiang.
Human social interaction relies on a universal, biologically rooted engine that enables rapid communication long before children master the… The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e3df24b2 #CognitiveScience
July 29 #OA spotlight: STINKING PHILOSOPHY! by Benjamin Young @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026254888...
Stinking Philosophy!
What are smells? Despite the best efforts of philosophy and the chemosciences, the question remains vexing—but no more perplexing than the historical lapse...
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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · last wk.July 29 #OA spotlight: "People Are STRANGE" by Lambros Malafouris. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
A roundabout takes one option away — you can only drive one way — and hands you another: the U-turn, which traffic lights forbid. Alicia Juarrero's lovely example of constraints creating possibilities. Can't say I get all of this, but interesting reading. doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14630.001.0001
Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 3w agoIn honor of the upcoming @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference, here is the July 18 OA highlight from @mitpress.bsky.social: CONTEXT CHANGES EVERYTHING: How Constraints Create Coherence by Alicia Juarrero mitpress.mit.edu/978026254566...
Comparing bilingual speakers to monolingual benchmarks is often misleading, as the bilingual mind functions as an integrated system rather than two… Bilingualism by Ludovica Serratrice https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2599e324 #CognitiveScience
July 29 #OA spotlight: "People Are STRANGE" by Lambros Malafouris. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
People Are STRANGE: Material Engagement and the Creation of Self-Consciousness
A groundbreaking exploration of self-consciousness through material engagement theory, redefining what it means to be human in a constantly changing world.
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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · last wk.July 28 #OA spotlight: Kate Nave's A DRIVE TO SURVIVE @mitpress.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Not every day that you get to give a talk with an opener, the opener plays 17th century Irish folk music, and previous speakers in the series were Thoreau and Emerson. Bet those chumps didn't even have good slides. @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
Michael Brownstein ; Somebody should do something
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Human technological complexity arises not from individual genius, but from the generational accumulation of innovations that no single mind could… Cumulative Culture by Maxime Derex https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.eeafc0ed #CognitiveScience
