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Dezhi Luo

@carrot0817.bsky.social
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PhD student @UCL working on the foundations of cogsci & AI. prev. @UMich @Edin. interested in consciousness, the self, agency, understanding, emotion, language, AI safety & ethics, weird fiction & music, beverages

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 21h
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
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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...
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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/
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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...
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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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Institute of Philosophy - School of Advanced Study (UOL) @ip-sas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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
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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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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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” 🧵
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Me reading Fodor
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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...
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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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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📣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
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Erik Istre @eistre91.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A recursive AI-generated image: the Las Vegas Sphere displays the previous AI image, which itself shows a red propeller plane towing a giant banner containing an earlier AI-generated sci-fi image. Each new generation embeds the last one inside a larger scene.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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...
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a wrap for #CCN2026! We look forward to meet again in Edinburgh next year!
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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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...
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Open Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Chandra Sripada.
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Yuzheng (vanessa) Wu @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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!!
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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!
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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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.
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Tianqi ZHAN @tianqizhan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A fundamental discovery ! Immanuel Kant would have loved it.
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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...
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Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49
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Dezhi Luo @carrot0817.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
So very excited!! 🥹 And so many thanks to @meganakpeters.bsky.social for taking me on!!
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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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.
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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.
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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
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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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ARC ETHOS @arcethos.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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/
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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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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Very excited to share that my lab will be moving to Princeton (Neuroscience & Psychology) this fall. I'll be recruiting at all levels (more info to come soon), please share / get in touch if you're interested in joining!
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
for students in mainland China who are interested in neuroscience & philosophy, what platform do they use to get updates? if a Chinese prof is to have a blog w/ regular posts, which platform would be the best for reaching the students? little red book? something else?
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Enjoying this talk about how to inflict maximum tickle. For anyone curious: (1) Touch velocity non-linearly modulates ticklishness, (2) force monotonically increases ticklishness until the touch is perceived as painful, (3) the smallest contact size & (4) longer duration induced more tickle #ESCAN
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Last call to apply! ⏰ Applications close 10 June! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cifar.ca/next-generat... #NeuroscienceResearch #ConsciousnessStudies #PostdocOpportunities #AIConsciousness #NeuroscienceOfConsciousness
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CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFAR
Follow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […]
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
who wants to come work with us, on whether AIs can introspect? e.g. something similar to this - transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introsp... - but maybe especially in the perceptual domain? we just got some new funds to collaborate with our friends at Yale (on foundational models for fMRI data), & ...
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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
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Sushrut Thorat @martisamuser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1/ Periodic reminder: decodable ≠ causally used. Or, as we put it: Represented Is Not Computed. New paper w/ the excellent Ishita Darade (not on BSky; www.linkedin.com/in/ishita-da...), an undergrad student: arxiv.org/abs/2605.22488 #representation #NeuroAI #neuroscience #interpretability
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Represented Is Not Computed: A Causal Test of Candidate Algorithmic Intermediates in a Transformer
Structured prompts require integrating components according to task-relevant relations. How a network implements this integration is often hard to judge in language or vision, where those relations ar...
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
1/n New preprint: What biology can, and cannot, tell us about conscious AI arxiv.org/abs/2606.02121 With @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social
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What biology can, and cannot, tell us about conscious AI
Progress in AI is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational functionalism framework. Biological Natur...
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 25/05/2026
THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!
213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Once upon a time, representational momentum seemed to be about motion. Then Alon Hafri + @jorge-morales.bsky.social + others extended it to other continuous visual properties. Can we go even further? At 2:45pm in the Banyan Breezeway, @talboger.bsky.social reports repmo for written phrases! #VSS2026
Trial structure for Tal's "phrasal momentum" taskPhrasal momentum
The world looks different from one moment to the next, and various mental processes anticipate such changes. A foundational example of this anticipation is representational momentum (RM), wherein the mind ‘plays forward’ visual events. For example, falling objects are recalled as closer to the ground, and rotating rectangles are recalled as more rotated. Though early studies hypothesized that RM primarily concerns the anticipation of motion, recent work demonstrates that it arises for other continuous properties, such as the brightness of a stimulus or even how melted an ice cube appears. Here, we extend representational momentum even further than these sophisticated phenomena, to discrete (rather than continuous) properties, as well as to more conceptual (rather than purely visual) properties of the world. Participants watched animations of common phrases being typed; the animations were interrupted partway through (e.g., “The quick brown fox jum”), and participants used a slider to recall the phrase’s state at the moment it disappeared. 5 experiments revealed ‘phrasal momentum’: The mind plays forward the phrases we see, in ways that distort visual memory. This distortion was greater for real phrases than for (a) strings of “X”s (Experiment 1), (b) length-equated strings of random letters (Experiment 2), and (c) scrambled versions of the words composing the phrases (e.g., “heT kicqu rbnow oxf”; Experiment 3). We also observed a stronger distortion for normal, in-order phrases than for word-shuffled versions of those same phrases (e.g. “The quick brown fox…” vs. “Fox quick the brown…”; Experiment 4). Finally, Experiment 5 found that phrasal momentum follows a conceptual ‘gradient’; in a single experiment combining all the aforementioned conditions, normal phrases produced the strongest RM effects, followed by shuffled phrases, scrambled letters, random letters, and Xs. Thus, representational momentum arises even for discrete and non-visual stimuli.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The #reflexionlab from @ucisocsci.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social is at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social While *I personally* am not there 😭, you can still see our work!
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Institute of Philosophy - School of Advanced Study (UOL) @ip-sas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Join us for the Philosophy & AI Research Exchange Workshop on Monday, 19 May 2026! 🤖📚View the full programme and register here: philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Philosophy & AI Research Exchange
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Martin Ziqiao Ma @marstin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A glimpse of interaction models: early experiments with time-aligned micro-turns over native audio, video, and text streams, moving toward more seamless human-AI collaboration. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interac...
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Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration
Interaction models move beyond turn-based AI interfaces by handling multimodal, real-time collaboration natively across audio, video, and text.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Very excited to have this officially published: A neural state space for episodic memories A brief thread... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪 @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
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A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.
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Scientific Theories of Consciousness
Cambridge Core - Neurosciences - Scientific Theories of Consciousness
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Grace @gracekind.net · 07/05/2026
Interesting new angle in the AI personhood debate
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
bump for visibility!
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Richard @futrell.bsky.social and I have posted our response to the commentaries on our BBS target article "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models." The response is: "You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS!" arxiv.org/abs/2604.09501
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You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS!
Norm, the formal theoretical linguist, and Claudette, the computational language scientist, have a lovely time discussing whether modern language models can inform important questions in the language ...
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Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com · 14/04/2026
Looking forward to speaking at this ICML workshop on ML & Philosophy! Check out the full lineup and CFP below (deadline: May 11th). Despite the title, the CFP is open to work in many areas of the philosophy of AI, not just AI ethics. sites.google.com/view/philmli...
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "mental imagery reactivates the same sensory codes used during visual stimuli, suggesting the existence of a generative model capable of synthesizing detailed sensory contents from an abstract, semantic representation."
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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 imagery remain poorly understood. We determined that ...
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨 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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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 10/04/2026
Patricia Churchland's advice to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/felipe-de-b...
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