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
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
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
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
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
November moon sky
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
November moon sky
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New preprint !
Baby steps in conscious experiences
- I explain why every single step matters when we climb the mountain of our embodied conscious life
Check it out : it involves also drinking red wine versus seeing red wine 🍷
And thomas Nagel versus my grandma 😎😅
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Baby steps in conscious experiences
- I explain why every single step matters when we climb the mountain of our embodied conscious life
Check it out : it involves also drinking red wine versus seeing red wine 🍷
And thomas Nagel versus my grandma 😎😅
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New preprint !
Baby steps in conscious experiences
- I explain why every single step matters when we climb the mountain of our embodied conscious life
Check it out : it involves also drinking red wine versus seeing red wine 🍷
And thomas Nagel versus my grandma 😎😅
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Baby steps in conscious experiences
- I explain why every single step matters when we climb the mountain of our embodied conscious life
Check it out : it involves also drinking red wine versus seeing red wine 🍷
And thomas Nagel versus my grandma 😎😅
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Super proud co-supervisor of trainee Albert Lukasik !
Here in full swing giving a talk at the HumanTech summit 😎🎉🌟
Here in full swing giving a talk at the HumanTech summit 😎🎉🌟
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Super proud co-supervisor of trainee Albert Lukasik !
Here in full swing giving a talk at the HumanTech summit 😎🎉🌟
Here in full swing giving a talk at the HumanTech summit 😎🎉🌟
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Yay ! Paper accepted in PAID 😎
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yay ! Paper accepted in PAID 😎
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Thrilled to see this paper accepted 👇🏻 Great teamwork with @annaciaunica.bsky.social and Malika Auvray !
Yay ! Paper accepted in PAID 😎
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Thrilled to see this paper accepted 👇🏻 Great teamwork with @annaciaunica.bsky.social and Malika Auvray !
Yay ! Paper accepted in PAID 😎
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Yay ! Paper accepted in PAID 😎
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brilliantly led by Julia Ayache and fantastic teamwork with Malika Auvray !
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Back to Zack’s - my old cafe place in South Ken ! 😎
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Back to Zack’s - my old cafe place in South Ken ! 😎
Fantastic Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain in London
She was like a cat : living several lives 😎🐈⬛
She was like a cat : living several lives 😎🐈⬛
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fantastic Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain in London
She was like a cat : living several lives 😎🐈⬛
She was like a cat : living several lives 😎🐈⬛
Expect some embodiment twists in the science of consciousness 😎
Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Expect some embodiment twists in the science of consciousness 😎
Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
Missed London in November 😎😅
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Missed London in November 😎😅
Reposted by Anna Ciaunica
🧠🫀 🫁 💯
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
György Buzsáki
(2025)
Physical time is measured using arbitrary units whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain–body rhythms... these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time. 👇💥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
György Buzsáki
(2025)
Physical time is measured using arbitrary units whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain–body rhythms... these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time. 👇💥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🧠🫀 🫁 💯
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
György Buzsáki
(2025)
Physical time is measured using arbitrary units whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain–body rhythms... these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time. 👇💥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
György Buzsáki
(2025)
Physical time is measured using arbitrary units whereas experienced time is linked to a hierarchy of brain–body rhythms... these rhythms, may be the source of our subjective feeling of time. 👇💥
www.nature.com/articles/s41...