Reposting because I forgot to tag @haraldwiltsche.bsky.social

Here's our latest podcast conversation with the marvellous philosopher Harald Wiltsche. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LEy...

bigthink.com/13-8/nature-... by @adamfrank4.bsky.social

"I conclude that the enactive approach remains the only strand within 4E cognition where a full rejection of the foundational assumptions of traditional cognitive science is possible." - Henrique Mendes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Here's our latest podcast episode: a conversation with the formidable and admirable Yuria Celidwen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Y...

“This is a beautiful book by one of our most inventive and profound thinkers. It is undisciplined because it transcends disciplinary limitations, and it is pro-human even as it resists all forms of anthropomorphism." - @alvanoe.bsky.social author of ACTION IN PERCEPTION

Excited to share my paper on an enactivist account of non-dual awareness, integrating ideas from constraint causality and Nāgārjuna’s notion of emptiness! Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness url: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness url: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Annual reminder that the book is open access. How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing. Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective? #neuroskyence mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...

Last night I dreamt I gave a very detailed and precise lecture about lucid dreaming. The dream was not lucid.

I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded the Mind-Matter Prize by the Society for Mind-Matter Research. (See "news" at the top right). My prize-acceptance Lecture will be at the Society's Models of Consciousness Conference in Copenhagen, October 12-16, 2026. www.mindmatter.de/index.html

Happy to announce this NEH Summer Institute at UC Berkeley, co-directed by @christiancoseru.bsky.social @alvanoe.bsky.social and yours truly @evanthompson.bsky.social www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~skneh/

The Blind Spot Podcast was an Instant Hit in 2025 according to Spotify. Have you been tuning in to our conversations about Life, The Universe and Everything? It's science from a different perspective. The band = me, @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser.

🎉 Congratulations to @evanthompson.bsky.social and @kiransoma.bsky.social for being newly named Distinguished University Scholars, one of UBC’s highest honours for faculty excellence. 👏 @ubcphilosophy.bsky.social @psych.ubc.ca Discover more about their work and contributions ⬇️

Congratulations to Dr. Evan Thompson, who was recently named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar! buff.ly/D0kniM3

Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...

Précis of my book with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. Soon to be followed with a response to commentators. The Blind Spot rdcu.be/eQkzc

@amandagefter.bsky.social writing in Nautilus about a meeting on intelligence in which I participated last year in Tuscany.

Go glial cells! More and more evidence keeps pouring in that the cognitive brain is not just a neuronal network. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint of a theoretical paper with @evanthompson.bsky.social. We discuss using information theoretic approaches to test the role of emergent interaction dynamics hypothesized by #ParticipatorySensemaking on attention and agency — using dance improv as a laboratory: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Third Entity: Participatory Sense-Making, Agency, and Attentional Dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps... New paper by @beckety.bsky.social and yours truly.

Excited to learn about the Blind Spot podcast with @evanthompson.bsky.social @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser.

Death, Grief, and Radical Hope by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Grappling w my identity as a reluctant enactivist... My favorite formulation of the approach so far is @xabibaran.bsky.social's "Autonomy and enactivism: Towards a theory of sensorimotor autonomous agency" (2017) link.springer.com/content/pdf/... IMO, it does three great things:

How ChatGPT is transforming agency: link.springer.com/article/10.1... If you are interested on the ontological status of LLMs or want to get a better technical grasp on their internal functioning (without a maths or engineering background) this might be a good starting point.

So much for the Indian philosophical trope "horns of a rabbit" (used to signify nonexistence). www.cbc.ca/news/science...

🤔 How can we study #consciousness between people, at the social level? 🧠✨ New #preprint co-led by Anne Monnier & Lena Adel: “Now is the Time: Operationalizing Generative Neurophenomenology through Interpersonal Methods” 🧵(1/3)

Algorithms don't play & animals only play when they feel safe. ❤️ Ep 65 with Julian Kiverstein (Amsterdam Medical) looks at how play relates to surprise, risk, & our capacity to handle uncertainty. New insights on Active Inference & the role of The Embodied Mind #EmbodiedMInd #play #loveandphilosophy

In this episode Julian credits @evanthompson.bsky.social and The Embodied Mind as his primary inspiration

Very nice to see something intelligent about AI and about putting it to a good use for a change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlL...

New episode with yours truly and @adamfrank4.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCO-...

Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) www.noemamag.com/why-science-... by @adamfrank4.bsky.social

The cultural construction of “executive function” | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Executive summary: "A major achievement....sweeping in scope, yet meticulously reasoned."

A review of The Blind Spot that appeared in Die Furche in April. www.furche.at/wissen/the-b...

New episode of The Blind Spot just dropped. Problems with Cosmology and Unified Theories. Deep dive into success & challenges of the big bang model and String Theory and supersymmetry. Their major shortcomings and challenges. (spotify too) @evanthompson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5m...

Episode 5 of The Blind Spot Podcast with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. Part II of our reflections on modern cosmology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5m...

"the neuroscientist has embraced the habit of treating neurons as cognitive agents, attributing to them capacities we would normally only attribute to persons." Information in the Brain: From Metaphor to Truth - Zahnoun - Theoria - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fabulous discussion with Dr. Kate Nave - wide-ranging, nuanced, clear, smart thinking about agency, purpose, life, cybernetics, the FEP, process philosophy and lots more! open.spotify.com/episode/4PKy...

If you think the brain should be defined as a massive neural network, think again. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Dear friends, I wrote a piece in which I explain why I think reviving ancient views of phil life can work only partially for us today. I also explain why I think that bringing great books to the counseling table is the key to self-transformation. social-epistemology.com/2025/06/04/p...

In memory of Nancy Jack Todd by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...

Episode 4 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. This time we're talking about cosmology. open.spotify.com/episode/45sm...

My mother-in-law, the inestimable Nancy Jack Todd, has left us. Here's a piece about her by her daughter and my partner, @beckety.bsky.social substack.com/@beckettodd/...

Just a reminder that @evanthompson.bsky.social Marcelo Gleiser and I have started a podcast called The Blind Spot (its about science, philosophy and beyond). Here is a link to the latest episode which is Part II of our discussion of Time open.spotify.com/episode/3KYp...