Anna Ciaunica
@annaciaunica.bsky.social
Philosopher / Cognitive Scientist working on self consciousness and social interactions in humans and artificial agents/ Embodiment/ AI / Art & Science
In Lisbon & London
In Lisbon & London
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Ik ben net aangekomen bij het hoofdstuk "Lichaam" bij Sartre. Dit sluit er fraai op aan.
How does your body know which cell is yours and which isn't?
Het ik vs de ander bij Sartre.
"fascinating ‘in between’, for which we don’t have a word in our Western societies yet"
Dit is puur Sarte-Heidegger!
How does your body know which cell is yours and which isn't?
Het ik vs de ander bij Sartre.
"fascinating ‘in between’, for which we don’t have a word in our Western societies yet"
Dit is puur Sarte-Heidegger!
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ik ben net aangekomen bij het hoofdstuk "Lichaam" bij Sartre. Dit sluit er fraai op aan.
How does your body know which cell is yours and which isn't?
Het ik vs de ander bij Sartre.
"fascinating ‘in between’, for which we don’t have a word in our Western societies yet"
Dit is puur Sarte-Heidegger!
How does your body know which cell is yours and which isn't?
Het ik vs de ander bij Sartre.
"fascinating ‘in between’, for which we don’t have a word in our Western societies yet"
Dit is puur Sarte-Heidegger!
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Eerder las ik dat AI zich in poëzie verslikt. Nu dat de denker van Rodin eigenlijk een dichter was.
Nu AI zaagt aan de poten van ons denken is poëzie het laatste bastion van ons menszijn tegen de oprukkende machines.
Macht aan het poëtariaat! 🌹
Nu AI zaagt aan de poten van ons denken is poëzie het laatste bastion van ons menszijn tegen de oprukkende machines.
Macht aan het poëtariaat! 🌹
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Eerder las ik dat AI zich in poëzie verslikt. Nu dat de denker van Rodin eigenlijk een dichter was.
Nu AI zaagt aan de poten van ons denken is poëzie het laatste bastion van ons menszijn tegen de oprukkende machines.
Macht aan het poëtariaat! 🌹
Nu AI zaagt aan de poten van ons denken is poëzie het laatste bastion van ons menszijn tegen de oprukkende machines.
Macht aan het poëtariaat! 🌹
Love the winter light 😎
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Love the winter light 😎
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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"Practice, practice, Practice!"
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Practice, practice, Practice!"
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If our thinking is shaped by the whole body, not just the brain, then imagine what it means to grow up with a body that’s different from birth, as #intersex people do. How does a different morphology shape embodied self-experience & embodied cognition, perception, and the sense of “being me”? #4E
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Excellent popular article by Anna Ciaunica (@annaciaunica.bsky.social). Along with reader-friendly prose, Anna digs deep into the nature of the self. Highly recommended.
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Excellent popular article by Anna Ciaunica (@annaciaunica.bsky.social). Along with reader-friendly prose, Anna digs deep into the nature of the self. Highly recommended.
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)
Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer
...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.
Let's meet!
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Excellent piece!
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Excellent piece!
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
So, hmmm. This takes ‘embodied’ to its logical extreme, although it’s not currently very ‘embedded’ - the bounds of cognition still seem to be the body. And not all cells are equal here - there IS a difference between losing a toe and losing some brain.
Some big bold ideas here, but lots to do
Some big bold ideas here, but lots to do
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So, hmmm. This takes ‘embodied’ to its logical extreme, although it’s not currently very ‘embedded’ - the bounds of cognition still seem to be the body. And not all cells are equal here - there IS a difference between losing a toe and losing some brain.
Some big bold ideas here, but lots to do
Some big bold ideas here, but lots to do
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
"All our humble bodily cells participate in the making of our experiences and cognitive processes, and not just the ‘noble’ neurons in the brain."
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"All our humble bodily cells participate in the making of our experiences and cognitive processes, and not just the ‘noble’ neurons in the brain."
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
About cognition being much more than neural activity. And the role of the immune system as a sense of self. (Resonates with much of my own thinking in Een wereld vol denkers.) By @annaciaunica.bsky.social in @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/why-y... #psychology #filosofie #neuroscience
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
aeon.co
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
About cognition being much more than neural activity. And the role of the immune system as a sense of self. (Resonates with much of my own thinking in Een wereld vol denkers.) By @annaciaunica.bsky.social in @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/why-y... #psychology #filosofie #neuroscience
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Cells are sensors, they may have some intelligence at all but who knows? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Cells are sensors, they may have some intelligence at all but who knows? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Another cool study modelling shared somatosensory and visual representations during naturalistic video watching 👇
'Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Another cool study modelling shared somatosensory and visual representations during naturalistic video watching 👇
'Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
From cells to selves
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought | @annaciaunica.bsky.social
#philsky #cognitivescience
aeon.co/essays/why-y...
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought | @annaciaunica.bsky.social
#philsky #cognitivescience
aeon.co/essays/why-y...
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
aeon.co
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
From cells to selves
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought | @annaciaunica.bsky.social
#philsky #cognitivescience
aeon.co/essays/why-y...
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought | @annaciaunica.bsky.social
#philsky #cognitivescience
aeon.co/essays/why-y...
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
Wonderful food for thought
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wonderful food for thought
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
"In perceiving and experiencing the world, we ‘smuggle in’ our own fundamental self-survival goals. This is something we share with cats and worms and viruses. Whether this is also something we share with artificial systems is another story."
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"In perceiving and experiencing the world, we ‘smuggle in’ our own fundamental self-survival goals. This is something we share with cats and worms and viruses. Whether this is also something we share with artificial systems is another story."
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
YESS!
Happy to see this one out 😎!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive 😎😅
New preprint 😎
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I propose an embodied and developmental take on the birth of conscious experiences
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I propose an embodied and developmental take on the birth of conscious experiences
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
New preprint 😎
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I propose an embodied and developmental take on the birth of conscious experiences
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I propose an embodied and developmental take on the birth of conscious experiences
Delighted to co-organise this workshop on Self-Other Actions and Interactions in real and virtual worlds
Full info here 👇🏼
Shout out to my brilliant trainee Altea Vanni for the poster design 😎
Check out her talk too !
Hybrid format - everyone welcome
Full info here 👇🏼
Shout out to my brilliant trainee Altea Vanni for the poster design 😎
Check out her talk too !
Hybrid format - everyone welcome
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Delighted to co-organise this workshop on Self-Other Actions and Interactions in real and virtual worlds
Full info here 👇🏼
Shout out to my brilliant trainee Altea Vanni for the poster design 😎
Check out her talk too !
Hybrid format - everyone welcome
Full info here 👇🏼
Shout out to my brilliant trainee Altea Vanni for the poster design 😎
Check out her talk too !
Hybrid format - everyone welcome