@drmichaellevin.bsky.social's collective intelligence has extended mind idea as component. In a collective, the individual mind is extended onto peers, not tools, and then, because of emergent properties, we have higher, second-order effects of a collective.

Wise words from an expert on autism www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Neuroscientist who is great with new media and cares about scientific rigor? DM me. We want to hire someone like you (part time).

A recording of a recent talk at McGill, The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8me...

This is not good.

Replies to the comments on www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... is now out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "From complementarity to non-duality: Seeing objects and processes as pragmatic constructs"

Secret Sauce This is a follow-up from a previous post related to Joshua Bongard's work that human babies have zero-shot learning abilities and no LLM is capable of that - in areas where it hasn't been trained it's quite helpless.

A lesser known flaw - prompt sensitivity We talk much about the "hallucinations" of AI, which is unfortunate term that humanizes them (@anilseth.bsky.social's point, a better one would be confabulation. What we talk less about is - prompt sensitivity.

New preprint with Léo Pio-Lopez: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... "Multi-Scale Longevity: Defeating Aging from Cells to Embodied Human Minds, and the Future of the Species" a broader view of longevity research.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? Interesting paper tackling this difficult question. Answer (in part): it's complicated! The same fixed system can be interpreted as implementing many (even infinitely many) computations depending on the chosen decoding map. doi.org/10.1088/2632...

A perspective, in 2 parts: link.springer.com/article/10.1... link.springer.com/article/10.1... Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domains—Parts One and Two 🧪

If you listen to the brain, it can tell you how to do energy-efficient computing. Brain-Inspired Energy Efficient Technologies for Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence par.nsf.gov/biblio/10666... #neuroscience

How we measure things and why does time make sense to us alexeytolchinsky.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

Erik Hoel's new lab. (I am a fan of his work) open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...

Beatrice Beebe is recruiting volunteers www.linkedin.com/posts/beatri...

New psychology podcast Your time will be well spent; and this is high quality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=37yh...

Victory! The Immigrant Safety Act was just signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. New Mexico is sending a message: ICE can't be allowed to continue terrorizing our communities.

A profound thought from @chrisfields38.bsky.social: Your environment is a cognitive agent. He shared it here (minute 18) in the context of quantum information theory www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm70... I wrote comments on how I understand Chris here: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

a useful book by @chrisfields38.bsky.social and James Glazebrook link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Presentation about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm70...

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

Every-thing is no-thing under FEP. substack.com/@alexeytolch...

Karl Friston's useful connection of two concepts: Epistemic affordance/foraging, which in some ways is close to play is only possible in deep/hierarchical generative models, not in flat ones. minute 48 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_X...

Just over 600 “Spravato Centers” generated $2,000,000,000 in annual revenue, last year Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com/p/a-eulogy-f...

Intelligence and consciousness. @anilseth.bsky.social, brief, clear and to the point: "intelligence is about doing and consciousness is about being" www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

Eric Hoel is wonderful. substack.com/home/post/p-...

@chrisfields38.bsky.social on recursion in interpreting something as a computation. - You need to compute in oder to claim that "ABC" is doing computation. E.g. imagine you're stating that a crow is doing addition - you can't do that unless you do addition in your head.

Observer-dependent Consciousness? In this conversation with @anilseth.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social asked a question I have not heard before - Consciousness for whom? From which perspective? Minute 44 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuw...

Space and object permanence. @chrisfields38.bsky.social in addition to connecting time and identity does the same with space. When we see a ball moving, we must assume it is the same ball and not the series of balls disappearing and appearing - we need identity assumption to perceive something

function of space? citation from @chrisfields38.bsky.social "space allows us to keep different packets of information away from each other, so they don't interfere. To be able to distinguish information about some-thing from information about something else."

In our paper with @chrisfields38.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @activeinference.bsky.social @lancelotdacosta.bsky.social we mentioned a dysfunction of a specific memory system as one of the possible underlying mechanism of a dissociative episode. The paper is about temporal depth, however

@chrisfields38.bsky.social's comment derived from the 2nd law: given your observation capabilities, whatever direction you see the most information loss is your local, entropic time direction. #physics #informationtheory

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Kudos to Gary for realising and saying this ages ago. But bugger me, why were the "big guns" so slow to realise it too, and how much faith can we have in their judgement?

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...

What Your Genes Really Control - new podcast interview on The Early Perspective open.spotify.com/episode/5iVC...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? Almost always we average responses thus equating response variability with noise. Well, we shouldn't because variability is also signal, not noise to be entirely discarded. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

great orator www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p2D...

This Thursday at noon. Join us (over Zoom) for the MIT Consciousness Club. George Mashour (University of Michigan Medical School) - "Consciousness and the Dying Brain" sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

Does a virus have agency? This text is written based on the work by @macrinephd.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Comments and critique are most welcome. Kevin, I wonder what you think on this? open.substack.com/pub/alexeyto...

Talk at McGill next Thursday. For colleagues in Montreal. I'll present next Thursday 3-4.30pm at the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry. Many thanks to Laurence Kirmayer Ana Gomez-Carrillo and other colleagues.

Why seeing a graph works better than a table of numbers? (And how hunter gatherers were good at calculus.) Related to @macrinephd.bsky.social work on embodied cognition www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Many cortical traveling waves spiral. Here's how and why. Cortical Field Model of Complex Spiral Traveling Waves doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

2nd Ed of "The AI Wars" is now available from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/great-phi...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Academic collaboration request Dear Colleagues, if you are fluent in coding in Python, and also studied FEP/ActInf, you are interested in clinical psychology/psychiatry, please reach out via direct messaging.

The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025 www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #neuroscience

mind-blowing chapter by @chrisfields38.bsky.social. I wish I read this before. Very useful on many fronts chrisfieldsresearch.com/Chapter-13-F...

perception as the center of the bow-tie. Based on @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social work. What we perceive is the result of many-to-one mapping from the environment to the boundary. We experience a low-dimensional "summary." minute 43 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw...

On applying math to mental functioning directly. @chrisfields38.bsky.social "1-st order logic from fixed axioms is not a good description of how our minds work." minute 40 here www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw... A profound presentation on how the old "formal systems" in math are very limited.

Environmental Relativity of computations. Another important point by @chrisfields38.bsky.social "Computation is relative to environmental constraints. (The environment shapes the free energy landscape)" @ 31 min www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aw...