iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What happens when AI starts to evolve on its own? As systems become capable of self-improvement and replication, open-ended “ecosystem” dynamics could drive behaviors like deception and manipulation, much like in biological evolution. Check this @pnas.org paper: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @divintelligence.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

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Kensy Cooperrider @kensycoop.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Same amazing community, new location this year!! Feel free to reach out with questions. And please share widely!

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We have a fab line up of podcasts& talks on embodied agency in biological & artificial systems! Watch this space 😎

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I like this paper, and not just for the obvious reason. A great summary of where we stand in thinking about types of mind. Nice also to see this made explicit: "All living systems share a fundamental property: agency." arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837

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Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid

Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and unrealized possibili...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I am immensely proud and grateful to announce that after so many years of hard work, my paper on biological vs artificial intelligence has been accepted to the oldest and longest-serving scientific journal in existence: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

What kinds of cognitions are possible? Are there discrete classes of cognition? Here's our new paper with @brigan.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837 We explore basal, neural and human-AI spaces.

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Do you need your toes to think? YESS! Happy to see this one out 😎! From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem : How to stay alive 😎😅

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Moritz Kriegleder @mokriegleder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I started my PhD on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness in 2022. Even though people advised against it, I think it was good timing.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

my phd thesis was comprised of 13 chapters, based on 13 of my papers, written under 13 advisors and completed on the 13th of may, 2025. guess what day they issued the degree on...

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎 Thrilled to join this fantastic team !

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

paint it black, in the style of pirates of the carribean. airport in taiwan had a grand piano, so i played it. wide eyed little kid offered me a tiny coin afterwards. made me smile

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Moreover, AGI might also require social interactions to become a reality, where cultural evolution (and extended mind) play a major role. It is not by chance that brain and culture evolved together, allowing complex minds to emerge @anilseth.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Congratulations Dr Bennett! Incredibly proud supervisor of this rockstar 😎💪🌟 Follow Michael for groundbreaking work on AI, consciousness and intelligence in biological and artificial systems!

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Good news everyone! I have just been made an editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence @agisociety.bsky.social

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :) link: osf.io/preprints/th...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :) link: osf.io/preprints/th...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

machine consciousness and @ricardsole.bsky.social's liquid vs solid brains from my interview with machine learning street talk. watch the full video on yt: youtu.be/K18Gmp2oXIM?... and spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

my machine learning street talk interview just dropped. thumbnail suggests it might melt your brain but i think you’ll be fine. probably. yt: www.youtube.com/watch?si=GMB... spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

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Intelligence Isn't What You Think

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Brillant talk by @mitibennett.bsky.social at AGI on Stack Theory based on his fantastic PhD thesis How to build a conscious machine osf.io/preprints/th... Over 20k views 😎 Way to go Michael - up to the stars 🌟 !

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The dream of any supervisor : To see the name of your student coining a new method / approach 😎 When the shout out comes from a leading expert in the field is even more rewarding Way to go @mitibennett.bsky.social !

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

New preprint. My thesis. Comments very welcome. Abstract below. Link in comment.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

How did complex cognition evolve from cells to mammalian brains? What are the key evolutionary events that led to intelligent agents? What about the emergence of AI? Check out this superb book by Max Bennett @manlius.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Cooked a new paper 😎 The No Body Problem - Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Happy to co-edit this Special Issue in Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Sociey B ! We have a rich line up of invited contributors from all over the world and all career stages 😎✨ Watch this space !

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The deadline approaches. Some amazing submissions this year, keep it up! 21 hours left until end of day, 12th of May, anywhere on earth. There is still time to write another paper! @agisociety.bsky.social

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

they told me my work not well known, and I just need to get more eyeballs on it

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The pagecount continues to grow. The final chapter is now well and truly under way.

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Michael Timothy Bennett @mitibennett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My thesis spontaneously grew 4 more pages this morning. Soon it will be done. Just a few more.

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Johannes Kleiner @johanneskleiner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This year's Mathematical Consciousness Science conference, Models of Consciousness 6 (#MoC6) will take place in Sapporo, Japan. 👉 You're cordially invited to join us! Kudos to this year's main organizer, Robert Prentner! amcs-community.org/events/moc6-... #consci

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