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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Patagonia® also usually close their stores to let their people vote. That's why I wear almost only @patagonia.com clothes (many other reasons as well: repairing, recycling... www.instagram.com/p/DBr9EJetg_q/ www.instagram.com/p/DB_Xxyzxc1...

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The book by Richard Cytowic ( @neuromandc.bsky.social ) arrived yesterday and I’ve just read the preface, which it gives some clear hints: it’s going to be an interesting read.

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if the universe is deterministic, when talking about free will the problem is: “where does the freedom come from?” if the universe is indeterministic the freedom comes for free and what's important is the control, the will of the organism. @wiringthebrain.bsky.social youtu.be/klj0ZnmPtu8?...

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BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents

YouTube video by Brain Inspired

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ANSA @mm-ansa-bot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Bologna ricorda la strage, Mattarella: 'Strategia neofascista'. Me... www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/20…

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

just a couple? I'm listening for the 2nd time to Free Agents audiobooks (I appreciate that you're the reader: the emphasis makes me note what I could have miss when I did read the book): I don't just like the book, rather I would like to have had knowledge to be able to write it myself 😏

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/07/2026

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? Find out on this week’s episode of The Quanta Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Is Life Just Different?

Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · July 21 · 36m

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

😔 sometimes it's me, and I swear it's not a way to escape the situation, is a pure forma mentis I cannot easily quit

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🙏🏻 Bought it, will arrive on March the 27th, which give me some room to understand Quantum mechanic in the meanwhile 🤔 😏

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"When we sell our minds too cheaply to our machines, we not only overestimate them, we underestimate ourselves."

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

found the source (Greenpeace estimate) which states: "These proportions shall be treated with some caution, as different sources were used for electricity consumption of data centres and the respective regions" On the other ✋🏻 data centers have surely stolen all human creative and artistic capital

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I can see the difference compared to the colloquial definition. Less bizarre, more rational, in my opinion. Thank you very much

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"the idea that quantum superpositions place a system in “two states at once”. it was music to my ears to hear all the physicists present at the meeting condemn it as a fundamental misconception of quantum mechanics." 😏 Could you pls suggest me an "easy" reading to better understand sperposition? 🙏🏻

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Free will = Libero Arbìtrio Referee = àrbitro If a referee takes a bad decision we shout “arbitro cornuto”: horned=cuckold/despicable referee Just adding an “i” it goes from the recent soccer misdeed (àrbitro cornuto – despicable referee) to a broader "arbìtrio cornuto": despicable decision maker 👏🏻

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I did read (and love) The Brain in Theory, so i guess I cannot but read The Brain Abstracted. As soon as I’ll end The Embodied Mind 😉 🙏🏻

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“the key point is that the actions can be governed by reasons and goals. The hare is genuinely trying to escape the fox; it doesn’t merely look that way” “recognizing agency might help us understand what makes life so different — not just humans, but life — that it is visible from outer space”

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I can’t keep up with the pace and read all what you write 😏 Many thanks for all those good stuffs 🙏🏻

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I don’t give a heck about soccer, but this is not just soccer any more, isn’t it? I like this cartoon so much!

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's always a pleasure listening to your lectures. Many thanks!

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Don't forget our Salon with Romain Brett discussing 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗼... July 9. Open to all but you need to register (personal-free/academic zoom account is necessary) #neuroskyence

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I've developed a strong aversion to AI-generated slides in presentations. They look so ugly, and seem to discourage economy in how ideas are presented. Indeed, the problems are akin to those for AI text: the hard work of creation is bypassed, and it shows.

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🌷🧿 khthoniaa 🧿🌷 @khthoniaa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Did you know that MIT offers an abundance of online courses for free? Each course includes a course syllabus, video lectures, free online textbooks, and more. Plus, the courses range from undergraduate to advanced graduate levels across all of MIT's departments, so there's something for everyone!

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MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"The downside of this power is that you have to constantly invest work to stay alive. And when this work is done, it is your time to make room for other living beings, with their own way of constructing themselves, to take your place in this world of limited resources."

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"What is life really about? What makes you unique? it is your living organization, your ability to literally construct yourself the way you decide to. At least to some degree, you are autonomous — in charge of your life!" The Cyborg Myth by Johannes Jaeger open.substack.com/pub/lovephil... /

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The Cyborg Myth

Text by Johannes Jaeger Artwork by Marcus Neustetter

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Spent two days in Rome (business trip). Got a lunch break with a twist. I never get tired of these views.

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The genome isn’t static: it’s living. (K. Adelman) “It acts on itself, mindful of its own history, heedful of messages from inside and outside the cell. A dynamic open informational system which uses its information contextually, with combinatorial & promiscuous logic”. @philipcball.bsky.social

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Can’t wait, I loved that book: “Breathing Life into Brain Theory”

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Deferring to self-regulation of AI [...] is more an abdication of responsibility than governance. @pbenanti.bsky.social

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We need this at conference venues. #philosophy #philtwit #philsky

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🙏🏻 Will read it! My cancer diagnosis came from a CT scan carried out 10 years ago for a kidney infection and I probably survive by pure chance

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Gotto e fiaschetto, Il botto è perfetto.

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"a living organism is a precarious organization of processes that exchanges matter and energy with its environment so as to maintain itself out of thermodynamic equilibrium.[...] living organisms are fundamentally coupled with the environment, as a condition for their existence." The Brain In Theory

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This “leakage” of information about a quantum state because of its interactions with its environment, and the consequent destruction of its “quantumness,” is a process called decoherence. The bigger the object gets, the harder it becomes to suppress any such interactions.

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In a press release (24 Sept. 2011,) the Italian Ministry of Education refers to ‘a tunnel between CERN and the Gran Sasso labs, through which the neutrino experiment was conducted’. There would be a tunnel over 700 km long connecting Gran Sasso with Switzerland… www.lastampa.it/politica/201...

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"Tunnel tra il Cern e il Gran Sasso"Gaffe della Gelmini, risate sul Web

La nota sul sito del ministero:galleria tra l'Abruzzo e Ginevra.E i tweet-beffa sopolano in rete

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In effetti però a me la Prius ha sempre fatto molto taxista

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just finished to read the book. I’m not “struck by [the fact that] the book does not mention consciousness” a quite rich and complex matter for an already dense book; rather I hope that it will be @romainbrette.bsky.social next big endeavour and his next book: I would like to read it soon.

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Is this paradoxically increasing the value of my unsigned copy? 😂😂😂 😉

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

🤩 Wow! This is kinda what I wanted to ask, but didn’t dare to! 🙏🏻 I’m happy that I did read some of those, and happier for so many suggestions. And I would like to add my VERY humble suggestion: Beyond The Brain by Louise Barrett

The book “Beyond The Brain” written by Louise Barrett

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Many thanks! I’ll read Probably Approximately Correct (a title I love, by the way) 🙏🏻

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Is there any link with Probably Approximately Correct? "the coping mechanisms with which life abounds are all the result of learning from the environment" Many thanks

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I read few pages: Probably Approximately Correct looks interesting. A quick question, if I may: I'm reading The Brain in Theory, finding this: "objects are cognitive concepts shaped by our interactions with the environment [...] information is a relation between a state and something in the world"

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Nice quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: "For the simplicity that lies on this side of complexity, I would not give a fig, but for the simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity, I would give my life." #systemsthinking

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🤔 it’s not just responding to stimuli, it’s interaction that counts: instead of kicking rock try to climb it and you’ll find out how much fun, unpredictability and personality you’ll get back 😂😂😂

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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m really enjoying your book, but hey! 😱 you’ve forgotten the salt 🧂 in your pasta algorithm 😏

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