Come to my talk tomorrow! I will be looking at the bibliometrics of the free energy principle framework: is it a degenerating research programme? #psaatw #philosophyofscience #fep #actinf #friston

The conference was a blast! Thanks to everyone participating in-person and online and to our wonderful speakers for their amazing contributions! Here are the abstracts of talks from the first edition: basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com/abstracts/ #cognition #philosophy #biology #psychology

Thanks for spreading the word! It’s mind blowing that our mini-conference has attracted over 30 people in person (and dozens online!) while our website has drawn hundreds of views in the last days. This positive reception is very motivating for us to carry on promoting basal #cognition research :))

Almost 800 views and 180 unique visitors in just the last three days. It’s amazing to see such interest in our project :))

I am amazed that our Basic Principles of Cognition conference was met with such enthusiasm and attended by dozens of people both in person and online. It’s not too late to join! Register at basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com/registration/ #Cognition #Mind #Philosophy #CogSci #Online #Biology

I'm very much looking forward to the BPC conference tomorrow and on Friday at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Everyone is welcome to attend and you can also watch the stream on zoom. I will give a talk at 4pm about early 20th century concepts of plant agency (featuring Arber, Ungerer and Francé). 🌿

The 1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference (9-10 Oct, hybrid) is around the corner! Feel free to share this neat overview of our conference with your colleagues and students: philevents.org/event/show/1...

If you still haven’t, register to attend online! Or join us in person in Bochum :) Put together by Bochum’s early career researchers to celebrate the 4th anniversary of establishing the Basic Principles of Cognition reading group (we accept new members:) you can sign up for this one too! PM me)

What has formerly been called “minimal cognition” research has now been renamed to “basal cognition”. The phenomena in question are not merely reduced instances of ‘proper’ cognition, but rather represent a pervasive and fundamental aspect of cognition.  basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

Don't forget to register for PSA Around the World 2025! This year spotlights Eastern & Central Europe 🌍 📅 The conference will take place: Thu, Nov 6 (3–6:15pm CET) Fri, Nov 14 (3–6:15pm CET) Sat, Nov 22 (3–6:30pm CET) 🔗 Register here:

With every problem that AI solves, our lives are not getting easier but progressively more difficult: when all the easy problems are solved, the only tasks left are the *really difficult* ones

Save the date! Remote participation will be also possible:)

We should fine-tune an LLM on Stanisław Lem’s writings and call it an “LLLEM” Btw, fun fact: Philip K. Dick at the height of his paranoia thought that “Lem” was in fact not a person but a secret collective of Soviet spies smuggling coded messages through sci-fi novels

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Our RTG has been accepted to host a Satellite workshop at the GAP.12 called “The Situated Mind: Perception, Experience, and Imagination“. See you next week in Düsseldorf! 😁

#EPSA25 was fun! So many great minds and kind souls under one roof :) Hats off to the organisers for making it smooth sailing for nearly half a thousand philosophers:) Next stop: #ESPP and a talk on adaptivity as a missing link in theories of cognition!

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com #EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss

I have written a blog post that motivates and sets the agenda of a new line of philosophical inquiry - the philosophy of adaptivity. You may have heard of adaptive AI or robots but what exactly makes them adaptive? And in what sense are we dynamically adaptive as biological systems?

Well done @wanjawiese.bsky.social! That’s great news and it’s awesome to see how the journal is growing and getting the recognition it deserves!

It was fun 3 hours presenting at the poster session 😁 great conversations, lots of water mist sprayed on our audience (consensually), snacks snacked on, handouts handed out - hopefully we just witnessed the beginning of a multidisciplinary collaborative research on machine insight! #assc28

I have written a blog post that motivates and sets the agenda of a new line of philosophical inquiry - the philosophy of adaptivity. You may have heard of adaptive AI or robots but what exactly makes them adaptive? And in what sense are we dynamically adaptive as biological systems?

Many compare the FEP to variational principles in physics. We concur that there’s similarity of formalisms. But if the FEP is a least action principle, then it doesn’t describe life. philarchive.org/rec/RADFFW