This is just not what LLMs are. If all they could do was reproduce their training set they wouldn't be able to do nearly all the things people regularly use them for. Please read the literature (e.g., here's a whole grade seminar I just taught - some good readings here: cogsci-llms.netlify.app )

A study co-authored by Princeton researchers finds that human brains process spoken language in a way that "closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models."

The December issue of TiCS is now online! tinyurl.com/42pysze4

Day 5 of the Brain's Blog symposium of 'The Idealized Mind'. Attached are links to Karl Friston's commentary and my response - a discussion about spherical cows and the FEP philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/05/the… philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/05/res���

Day 4 of the Brain's Blog symposium of 'The Idealized Mind'. Attached are links to @coreymaley.net commentary and my response: philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/04/c... philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/04/a... Am I committed to there being no physical computers that compute?

Day 3 of the Brain's Blog symposium of 'The Idealized Mind'. Attached are links to Frances Egan's commentary and my response: philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/03/s... philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/03/a... Should we think that nervous systems compute? That's the topic of Day 3!

Day 2 of the @philosophyofbrains.com symposium of The Idealized Mind. Attached are link to Zoe Drayson's commentary and my response. philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/02/c... philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/02/a... How can idealized models explain if they don't represent? Have a look in the links!

philosophyofbrains.com/2025/12/01/i... Introduction to the book symposium on The Idealized Mind on the Brain's Blog. New post everyday with a commentator and response by me. Commentators are Zoe Drayson, Corey Maley, Karl Friston and Frances Egan

youtube.com/watch?v=R2P6... Great to be part of this podcast on The Idealized Mind hosted by Deepak Bhatt over on Business Talk. Interested in idealization, neuroscience and philosophy this should be interesting. Feedback welcomed!

x.com/hellomrbhatt... Looking forward to diving into The Idealized Mind with Deepak Bhatt tomorrow on Business Talk

A little interview based on The Idealized Mind www.rorotoko.com/11/20251113-...

Available #OpenAccess, Michael Kirchhoff's "The Idealized Mind" brings together ideas from the philosophy of cognitive science and the philosophy of science to reconcile scientific realism with model-based science: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...

Data only shows associations. Turning those into claims about mechanism or causation? That requires a Rosetta Stone of prior knowledge + theory. Resting-state fMRI is purely observational; correlation is its currency. From this, plenty of "theoretical toys" about brain function can be built...

Second: Michael D. Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social explores the relationship between mental fictionalism and successful idealizations in the sciences: doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Not that it comes as much of a surprise to many of us, but it's worth emphasizing once again - the 👏 brain 👏 uses 👏 distributed 👏 coding 👏. 😁 Two new papers from the #IBL looking at brain-wide activity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

🏆 Best Paper — Predictive Coding or Just Feature Discovery? An Alternative Account of Why Language Models Fit Brain Data: doi.org/10.1162/nol_... Richard Antonello and @alexanderhuth.bsky.social

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

Looking forward to this podcast interview

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Exciting news. Following the publication of 'The Idealized Mind: From Model-based Science to Cognitive Science' (2025, MIT Press), I have signed a new contract for a completed and forthcoming book with MIT entitled 'The Idealized Brain: Uniting Philosophy of Science and Computational Neuroscience'.

Now published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'The Idealized Mind: From Model-based Science to Cognitive Science' published by MIT Press. Claims: models of the mind are idealized models; this is consistent with scientific realism; yet, it blocks realism about neural representation and neural computation based on evidence from neuroscience.

"Beyond the Extended Mind: New arguments for extensive enactivism". Published earlier this year in Synthese (Lorena Sganzerla, Daniel D. Hutto and Michael D. Kirchhoff) link.springer.com/article/10.1... Lot's of major implications for theorizing about the mind, brain and the nature of cognition

'The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism' (Kirchhoff, Kiverstein & Robertson) has finally made its way into the ahead of print stage with The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/0/0

Pre-print of my new paper "Idealization and Mental Fictionalism" accepted for publication in Philosophical Psychology. Thesis: fictionalism about mental representation is not explanatorily useful. Reason: fails the benchmark test of a useful idealization. www.academia.edu/127076112/Id...