Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!

I think it is actually quite a striking feature of contemporary analytic philosophy that a non-trivial amount of time is spent arguing about the appropriate immediate emotional reaction to micro-fictions.

"How to have ideas"

August 12th, 13th, 14th in Belo Horizonte and on-line. CFP: philevents.org/event/show/1...

saiu nosso artigo sobre desigualdade de gênero na pós-graduação em filosofia. Comparamos a filosofia com outras áreas e discutimos a relação de gênero entre orientador(a)-orientando(a). publicacoes.fcc.org.br/cp/article/v...

My paper, “Remembering and relearning: against exclusionism”, has been assigned to an issue of Philosophical Studies: link.springer.com/article/10.1....

My paper on memory and imagination as attitudes is finally out in print! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

My paper, "Remembering and imagining as attitudes", just got accepted at Synthese today! Super happy about that! 🎊🎉

SPAN 2025: Call for papers 🧠 Submission deadline: February 1, 2025 Keynote and invited symposia schedule coming soon! Visit: philandneuro.com/submissions

A very interesting post on how we learn to remember, from César Schirmer dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria)! open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

On "not using copilot" by @macwright.com macwright.com/2024/11/20/n... I like this thought of "solitary exercise vs. micromanaging" as different [thinking] processes

This one is now in print - as part of a special issue at Computational Brain and Behavior on "What makes a good theory?" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Nice chilly morning to write! #phdlife #phdsky

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,195,551!

Reading Fodor late in the afternoon while waiting for the train #PhDSky #PhDLife

went camping this weekend on Mark Twain Forest. It was soo much fun! 🌿🌻

Nice interview with Daniel Dennett - Favorite Books recommended by Daniel Dennett (interviewed by @nigelwarburton.bsky.social) fivebooks.com/best-books/d...