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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Took a while, but I like TOOL now.

Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Vamos conversar sobre o cérebro preditivo? Será na próxima semana, dia 21/09/26, às 13h, na Mackenzie! Inscrições aqui: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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François Kammerer @lovingautomaton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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.

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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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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

more comics: mandatoryrollercoaster.com subscribe: patreon.com/mandatoryrollercoaster

a single panel comic made entirely of word art and clip art. it is painful to perceive. the very ugly text reads: "I feel like eventually AI image generation will be like clip art is today. You'll still see it occasionally but it is almost universally understood as lame and low effort, bringing down the perceived seriousness of anything it's attached to"

clip art of a clock, a "recycle" sign, shaking hands, balloons, and another recycle symbol surround the text. it looks really bad

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

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

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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...

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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...

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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!

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 10/04/2026

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...)

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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

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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 10/04/2026

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/...

The aim of autopoiesis theory, as Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela declared it in 1980, was to understand living systems via a ‘mechanistic’ approach that involved only what can be found ‘anywhere else in the physical world… blind material interactions governed by aimless physical laws’ (p. 74). In service of such a mission, in Maturana's words, ‘any attempt to characterise living systems with notions of purpose or function was doomed to fail’ (p. xiii).
A lot can change in a few decades. By 2002 – to the presumed horror of those who had once rejoiced at this naturalistic ‘destruction of teleology’ (Beer, 1980) – we find Varela declaring that there is in fact ‘a real teleology implied in the notion of autopoiesis’, that it is a source of ‘subjectivity, intentionality and meaning’, and thus that, ‘organisms are subjects having purposes according to values encountered in the making of their living’ (Weber & Varela, 2002).

This search for an alternative ‘science of meaning’ is, alongside the rejection of a ‘representation-first’ view of cognition, one of the central pillars that defines Varela et al.'s (1991) presentation of the enactive approach. Yet the term ‘enactivism’ is also used more loosely to refer to the endorsement of the second, anti-representationalist, pillar alone. Disagreement thus persists about whether autopoiesis supplies an adequate basis for an alternative ‘science of meaning’, and indeed whether any such basis is even needed (Barandiaran, 2017; Ward et al., 2017).
This broad tent of enactive cognitive science has been pitched across a fault line. On one side: cyberneticists, who hew to Maturana’s machinistic view within which mind may be continuous with life, but only to the extent that both are continuous with non-life and all can be subsumed within the mathematics of dynamical systems theory. On the other: ‘organicists’, who take living systems to constitute a genuinely new sort of organisation – one that is necessary for a system to be cognitive and which cannot be straightforwardly approached via the same modelling strategies used in ordinary physics.

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micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

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

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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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!

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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...

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Outline of a Neurophilosophical Exploration of Attention | Principia: an international journal of epistemology

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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".

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Carnival is over, so happy New Year from Brazil!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

📚 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/%...

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📚 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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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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/

Graphic announcing the CogSci 2026 submission deadline. On the left, a calendar page shows “FEB 2.” On the right, the text reads “COGSCI 2026 – Cognitive Inefficiency, July 22–25, Rio de Janeiro” with gear icons above and the phrase “Deadline for Submissions” highlighted below, all on a dark teal background.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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...

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ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🔔✨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

Poster advertising symposia on Frances Egan’s book ‘Deflating Mental Representation’ (13/04 - 15/04). More info: https://tinyurl.com/NMO-ISPSM and https://tinyurl.com/Phimisci-Egan

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 20/01/2026

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#/

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"LIVING IS A TELEOLOGICALLY CONSTITUTED MODE OF BEING: REVISITING THE DEEP CONTINUITY BETWEEN LIFE AND MIND" very interesting paper! It is in English and open-access here: revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/co...

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Viver é um modo teleologicamente constituído de ser: revisitando a continuidade profunda entre vida e mente | Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The K-pop demon hunters claim it to be "obvious" that a demon with no feelings does not deserve to live. This is naturally read as endorsing both sentience and nondemonhood as individually necessary conditions for the right to life. In this paper...

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Anderson Fonseca, Ph.D. @andersonnfonseca.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Está disponível no canal do GEMA (Grupo de Estudo da Mente Animal), a sessão 1 do evento de lançamento online do livro "As Colônias de Formigas são Conscientes? - Are Ant Colonies Conscious?" com @lukeroelofs.bsky.social , @mlflumic.bsky.social e Daniel Friedman. youtu.be/BJ-PAt3cqf4?...

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

i've updated my history of AI poster. new version is on my website. 🥳

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Last weekend in London was memorable: I met Professor Karl Friston and presented my thesis draft on attention & self through active inference. The feedback was encouraging, and I feel back on track. A perfect way to close my European year—grateful for the people and experiences.

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This weekend I'll be in London for the workshop "Physics and Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" 😍. Here is the program: docs.google.com/document/d/1... And if you are interested in watching any presentation (including mine), here's the link: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3

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Physics and Self_Conference programme

Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2025 Woburn Suite, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Keynote talks will last 45 m...

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

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Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position

Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 Discusses how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end. Wrote paper having in mind younger researchers more open to new ideas :-) #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 02/12/2025

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So excited to revisit one of my boldest talks (from my master's), where I tried to "destroy" de Cartesian Theater. Back then, I used to add lots of memes and cool pictures in my slide presentations. This cartoon by @petemandik.bsky.social is hilarious and perfect for an illusionist&Dennettian talk.

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Sanja Sreckovic @sanjasreckovic.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

✨️Call for abstracts✨️ Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop "Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations" Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026 Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜 Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025 philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations”

The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The Attention in Contemporary Consciousness Science workshop was exactly the kind of meeting I needed to start understanding how my PhD connects with my main research topic: consciousness. My talk was warmly debated, and I had a great time in Pilsen. Thanks, Michal Polak and @tmarvan.bsky.social !

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Here I am turning my attention to consciousness again, when I revisited my chapter on human subjectivity and realized it is actually a good text (I think)! I have issues with my published stuff, but this time I enjoyed reading it. philpapers.org/rec/IENAPA

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Maria Luiza Iennaco, A Predictive and Illusionist perspective of human subjectivity - PhilPapers

The main philosophical perspectives on human subjectivity uphold a series of properties that make it scientifically intractable. Given the importance of understanding subjectiveness in such terms, thi...

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Maria Luiza Iennaco @mlflumic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

youtu.be/1q40Jqk1HYs?... I recently presented at the 5th AAIS, sharing the part of my research that explores, challenges, and bridges ActInf within neuroscience and the phil of attention. This marks a milestone in the development of my arguments, which I’ve been refining throughout the year.

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5th Applied Active Inference Symposium (Part 2, Nov 13, 2025) ~ LIVE

YouTube video by Active Inference Institute

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