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...

Really excited to read the reprint of Varela’s Biological Autonomy annotated by @evanthompson.bsky.social. I really want to offer a special topics course focusing on it in an upcoming semester.

This is the sequel that some of you wanted and some of you perhaps didn't want :) @pessoabrain.bsky.social @jbarbosa.org @algarwegian.bsky.social @evanthompson.bsky.social @frosas.bsky.social @haesemeyerlab.bsky.social @networksunknown.bsky.social

Open access edition of "Principles of Biological Autonomy" can be found here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Yesterday's book launch discussion for our new edition of Francisco Varela's Principles of BIological Autonomy published by @mitpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdN...

The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...

"Information is a manner of speaking, nothing more." www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...

The Blind Spot, by @adamfrank4.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser and Evan Thompson featured at the MIT Press blog mitpress.mit.edu/the-best-rea...

'Classics with Pelagia' is here! The first piece on Huxley & Aristotle is open to everyone. If you like it pls click "free to join" then upgrade to paid membership (5$ a month) to read monthly pieces. In June my thoughts on K. Hamsun's Pan are coming. Link in the comments!😊

Dear friends, Pelagia is back with a website! This time as a philosophical counselor. If you need me I am here. www.lradenovic.com

And here is Episode 3 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser. We'll be working on adding guests soon. Stay tuned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEl1...

Looking forward to this event in Trondheim, coming up in early June.

New paper, "Enaction as the bringing forth of worlds," by yours truly. Behind a paywall but email me if you'd like a copy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...