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basal cognition, emergent spacetime, active inference - chrisfieldsresearch.com
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Aeon Magazine
10 days ago
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive
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Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
https://buff.ly/UdHWIwz
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Alexey Tolchinsky
8 days ago
A conversation with Diana Moga,
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and me on autism - diagnosis, treatment, biases, models, prevalence of trauma, environmental issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-...
#autism
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Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-E1gSym0
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Fortunately these fake papers are still reasonably easy to spot.
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Delighted to be interviewed by
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for his new hbar Journal:
hbarjournal.substack.com/p/the-physic...
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The Physics of Free Will — A dialogue with Chris Fields
“If anything has free will, everything does.” — Chris Fields
https://hbarjournal.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-free-will-a-dialogue
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Just out today - generic agents and the FEP from unmodified quantum information theory.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems
This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-97263-8
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New preprint showing that the classicality of the observed world can only be a pragmatic assumption.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08239
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Operational protocols cannot certify classicality
The existence and practical utility of operational protocols that certify entanglement raises the question of whether operational protocols exist that certify the absence of entanglement, i.e. that ce...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08239
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New preprint constructing geometric representations of computations:
arxiv.org/abs/2509.19772
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Amplituhedra for Generic Quantum Processes from Computation-Scattering Correspondence
We study the relationship between computation and scattering both operationally (hence phenomenologically) and formally. We show how topological quantum neural networks (TQNNs) enable universal quantu...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19772
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link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems
This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031972621
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Frontiers | Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: theoretical model
Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1585315/full
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Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable
doi.org/10.1209/0295...
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Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable - IOPscience
Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable, Fields, Chris, Glazebrook, James F., Marcianò, Antonino, Zappala, Emanuele
https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/adfd0e
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A useful guide to our era:
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
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Karl Friston News
8 months ago
Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience" Coauthors:
@chrisfields38.bsky.social
, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer,
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, Adam Safron
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How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience
Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf009/8117684?login=false
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Negligence? As if he's not sharing military plans via Signal on purpose? How about "violation of the Espionage Act"?
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Sure looks like it.
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8 months ago
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Burn him!
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Deb Haaland
8 months ago
In New Mexico, we stand up for workers and justice. I marched alongside the fierce Dolores Huerta and community this morning in Barelas. In this moment, in this country, we have to harness our strength, stand together and fight for what is right, and I'm not backing down.
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Deb Haaland
8 months ago
Today, we’re saying hands off Medicaid, Social Security, VA benefits and all of the programs that New Mexicans rely on. As we stand together, we send a clear message: we will never stop organizing and we will stand up for our communities!
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Yep, that's goal. A country for the rich and only the rich. What's the plan for reversing this takeover?
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8 months ago
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What about the rising tide of vicious right-wing madness that has engulfed the world over the past two decades. Might that have anything to do with it?
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8 months ago
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Every senator who values freedom should now step up.
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8 months ago
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Lovely. Thank you, and Congratulations!
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8 months ago
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What will you do to oppose this?
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!!
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All voter suppression acts are un-American. The only goal of these bills is the replacement of democracy with dictatorship.
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They don't intend to put anything back together.
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Please make sure all New Mexicans understand that Trump has just imposed new sales taxes that they will have to pay.
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This is the expression I want to see on all their faces.
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Mikel Jollett
8 months ago
Does everyone understand that this would END 80 years of US world leadership, topple international stability, and make NUCLEAR WAR way more likely? Greenland is part of Denmark. Attacking Denmark would make all of NATO our ENEMY.
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Joshua J. Friedman
8 months ago
Here's an intriguing fine detail:
@premthakker.bsky.social
reports that university officials have discovered that the Trump administration has been revoking not only visas but also the student "status" (based on, e.g., maintaining required course load) that universities usually control
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Adam Weber
8 months ago
A recent trend at international academic conferences is that some American participants use burner phones or minimalist laptops. Their devices often run only browsers and basic software. This resembles the security measures travelers took 15 years ago when visiting China.
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When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary
https://rb.gy/erdz48
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NYC sounds like a dangerous place.
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Ohio obviously wants professional who can't think. Easier to replace with AI, which can't think either.
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Rick Wilson
8 months ago
WilmerHale was polite, professional, and direct. BigLaw could learn. Now, WilmerHale needs to actually fight this thing out. These orders are blatantly, insanely unconstitutional.
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What, Senator, can be done about this?
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KSV
8 months ago
🚨This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🚨
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What, Senator, can be done about this?
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What can be done, Senator, about these people who lie about breaking the law?
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What can be done, Senator, to make such an investigation happen?
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Alison Tinsley
8 months ago
The ad FOX news refused to air
fb.watch/yC9EBqILip/
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The Contrarian
8 months ago
Each week, The Contrarian selects an "Undaunted" individual working to defend democracy This week's spotlight: Senator Tammy Duckworth We honor her for denouncing MAGA bullying & incompetence—while exhibiting unceasing resilience & integrity
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Undaunted: Tammy Duckworth fights for America
We honor her for denouncing MAGA bullying, incompetence, and Democratic spinelessness--while exhibiting unceasing resilience and integrity
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-tammy-duckworth-fights
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Ade
9 months ago
They stayed silent because it wasn’t their problem. That’s how injustice wins, not by force, but by the quiet approval of those who look away. The system doesn’t need to break you. It just needs you to do nothing while it breaks others. And when it’s your turn, no one will be left to fight for you.
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8 months ago
Las mejores ideas de Musk y Trump hasta ahora: despedir ilegalmente a personas que dirigen programas importantes como la prevención del suicidio para veteranos, establecer aranceles que aumentan los precios de los consumidores y recortar Medicaid para niños y ancianos.
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Tim Smedley
9 months ago
For American readers, this is from one of the UK's leading right-wing newspapers today. The game is up.
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2...
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It’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free world
Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/03/25/its-over-america-has-ceased-to-be-leader-of-the-free-world/
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Senator Martin Heinrich
9 months ago
In Russia? Seriously?
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9 months ago
Musk and Trump’s best ideas so far: illegally firing people who run important programs like suicide prevention for veterans, enacting tariffs that raise consumer prices, attacking nonprofits that do vital community work, and cutting Medicaid for kids and seniors.
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Erin Biba
9 months ago
23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do. Gift link:
wapo.st/4kUsBEF
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Well put.
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9 months ago
A federal jury found Solomon Peña guilty on all 13 counts related to his involvement in shootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in 2022-23. In the November 2022 election, Peña decidedly LOST to incumbent Rep. Miguel P. Garcia, D-Albuquerque by a wide margin.
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Thank you, Senator Lujan, for calling this what it is: illegal. Everything Musk is doing is illegal. Musk is committing federal crimes.
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Deb Haaland
9 months ago
The Navajo Code Talkers are heroes. They helped our country defeat Nazis & fought for our freedom. It’s despicable that this administration has removed this history from their webpages. We will always honor them — even in the face of this administration’s hostility toward veterans.
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