@felipedebrigard.bsky.social on memory and forgiveness. www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/felipe-de-b...

Patricia Churchland's advice to @felipedebrigard.bsky.social www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com#/felipe-de-b...

We just released a new preprint on visual imagery -- take a look and tell us your thoughts -- reposts appreciated! #imagery #visualimagery #imagination #aphantasia #hyperphantasia #visionscience #psychscisky #cogsci #cognitivescience

Recently, Cliff Sosis interviewed me for his website “what is it like to be a philosopher”, and my interview is now available online. It was fun, and sometimes Illuminating, to reflect on my career so far and to answer his questions. Link below! Would love to hear your thoughts!

Liza Bortolotti has done a beautiful job compiling a series of brilliant pieces to commemorate the invaluable philosophical legacy of Dan Dennett. I’m so grateful for having been invited to contribute and can’t wait to read it all!

At the end of my book on Memory and Remembering, I suggested that the debate between causalism and simulationism in the philosophy of memory is ill-construed. This suggestion caused some controversy, and I thought it would be a good idea to articulate that suggestion as clearly as possible. (1/2)

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

Nw substack, with link to the relevant article: open.substack.com/pub/felipede...

Honest question: what do you think is the main problem AI is supposed to solve?

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇 www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

M. J. Crockett (Princeton) is reshaping how we understand moral cognition. Their research shows how learning & decision processes shape moral behavior, and how technologies like social media can exploit those processes & erode trust. Read more: www.nasonline.org/award/trolan... #NASaward

Check the audio version of this great book!

You rock @dorsaamir.bsky.social !!!

@felipedebrigard.bsky.social is joining us in a week to present "Remembering as Inverse Causal Inference" in our in-person colloquia series. Our reading groups are hybrid&many of our events are recorded. Please join us in what way(s) work for you! buff.ly/XzBTLFD buff.ly/QfspND5 buff.ly/qxSzqHp

We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings. Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C... You can also email [email protected] with CV/questions. Please share!

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Knowing that there are people actively working toward a better and more peaceful world gives me hope. This Friday, you can hear from some folks who have been carefully thinking about ways in which behavioral and neural sciences can contribute to peace building. www.neuropaz.com/en

I'm switching our research methods course from R to @jamovi.bsky.social this semester, and am absolutely thrilled to discover there's a Jamovi version of @djnavarro.net's free textbook. Such an amazjng service to the methods teachers of the world 🙏 www.learnstatswithjamovi.com

Call to Action: This Friday, Minnesota is being called to stand together in real, visible solidarity. Labor unions, faith leaders, and community organizers are urging people across the state to plan ahead and take part in a Minnesota Economic Blackout do not work, do not attend school, and do not

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

This book is a wonderful, synthetic and richly illustrated journey through the natural history of the vertebrate brain 🤩 A big thank you to the authors 🙏 "A major theme in the evolution of the telencephalon has been the emergence of novel pathways... 1/2

My department, Duke Neurobiology, is searching for a new chair. Ad below. Come work with me, @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social @ennatsew.bsky.social @jorggrandl.bsky.social @jnklab.bsky.social @sbilbo.bsky.social @neurocircuits.bsky.social and many other amazing folks! @dukemedschool.bsky.social

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The only thing Orwell got wrong was the year 😢

This must be a great resource! Thank you @gershbrain.bsky.social for being the coolest :-)

This remains my best-ever talk, on "double dipping" in data analysis. Applies to every field of science and data processing, researchers are making the mistakes discussed here every day and in every way #stats #DoubleDipping #RegressionToTheMean youtu.be/VN19B-3P6Cc?...

New paper from the IMC lab! I am very excited about this one. For years, I have been arguing that one of the main claims of the so-called "simulation heuristic" is likely not true for episodic counterfactual thinking, namely that the harder it is to mentally simulate it, the less plausible (1/n)

Five years ago.

This! We, Latinos, matter :-(

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for SSNAP! Please spread the word! #neuroscience #philosophy #neurophilosophy

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

Y en Chile va a ganar el nazi momio? 🥺

New journal: Experimental Philosophy

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.” Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:

Repetitive negative thoughts will be investigated using a range of cutting-edge brain science techniques as part of a new study led by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and funded by Wellcome @wellcometrust.bsky.social 👇 tinyurl.com/364es88k

Amazing work!!!

Philosophers, why does everything you do turn into a “plague of distinctions” descending on innocent people just trying to live their lives?? Amélie Oksenberg Rorty is giving me joy this morning. (From “Explaining Emotions”) #philsky

Would you plug into machine that simulates perfect life? NO! When told they’re already plugged in, half stay-when reality looks worse, almost everyone does. We don’t value reality. Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny. Link in bio #philosophy #simulation #reality

Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit

Very excited to host Nathan Spreng at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá!

Thank you to the organizers and everyone that participated in the #nokings protests. To those who can’t and/or afraid to do so, you are #hope

I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]

RIP Jane Goodall 😞

I miss Obama :-(

132,877. That’s the latest official number of people who forcibly disappeared in Colombia during the conflict. 132,877.

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump