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Susanna Schellenberg

@sschellenberg.bsky.social

Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), http://tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux perception, cognition, self-governance in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩‍🔬🧪 http://susannaschellenberg.org

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Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2

Trump ousts National Science Board members

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

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Susanna Schellenberg@sschellenberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excellent new paper by Beck and O’Callaghan on the perception-cognition border in terms of capacities employed. I'm sympathetic to their view: cognitive capacities can be employed in perception, and some capacities are both perceptual and cognitive, so the perception-cognition border is fuzzy.

Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction

Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non-overlapping categories. By contra....

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Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And here is the audio player! (Bluesky wasn't previously able to let me embed a player, but now it seems to be able to do so from Spotify, at least.) open.spotify.com/episode/0eYl...

350 | J. Eric Oliver on the Self and How to Know It

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Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Based in part on Eric's book from last year, How to Know Your Self: The Art and Science of Discovering Who You Really Are. jericoliver.com/how-to-know-...

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature

Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT@picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new paper in @natrevneuro.nature.com challenges decades of dogma about how and why the brain boils down what it sees, hears, smells, tastes and feels into categories. picower.mit.edu/news/complet... #neuroscience #cognition @mitbcs.bsky.social

A complete rethinking of how our brains use categories to make sense of the world

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at eve...

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Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social

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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.

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Elliot Murphy@elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Beautiful paper — clear evidence for a generative model in the human brain 🧠 👁️ A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex

Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones. Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual ima...

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Yoshua Bengio@yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Open-weight models are becoming increasingly capable while creating risks beyond those that already exist for closed-weight models. To continue benefiting from the advantages of open-weight models, we must develop risk mitigation methodologies specifically for them, as discussed in this paper.

Cas (Stephen Casper)@scasper.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨New paper🚨 From a technical perspective, safeguarding open-weight model safety is AI safety in hard mode. But there's still a lot of progress to be made. Our new paper covers 16 open problems. 🧵🧵🧵

Susanna Schellenberg@sschellenberg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Since my interview with Richard Brown abruptly ended after an hour, we did another one. This one is less free-floating than the first and includes a lot of discussion of representation, content, and the like. As someone in the chat commented dryly, “Endless discussions about semantics”.

onemorebrown@onemorebrown.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This was a lot of fun! Thanks again for the great conversation, and I hope you enjoyed the second half as well! youtube.com/live/_8gvUo_...