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:
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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)

Register here and join us in Bochum or attend online: basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com/registration/

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. 

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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)
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Zoom registration link is up on the website:) you can find it by clicking on the "Registration" tab in the top right corner

I have this problem with "adaptive AI" - there’s a very trivial sense in which AI adapts (like rivers which "adapt" their flow), there’s a normative sense (adaptive in contrast to maladaptive), and then there’s this inexplicable quality that somehow distinguishes proprietary LLMs from "static" AI

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

Not The Onion

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

Duh, war is bad for international business so it hurts everyone.

But the EU needs reliable trade partners and Russia is not a reliable trade partner. That being said, the Russian gas is still being imported into the EU, just in lower quantities

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

On this day in 1933, Nazis looted the Institute of Sexology to then burn what they had taken a few days later. The Institute carried out vital pioneering work RE understanding trans people and supported calls for equality for gay & transgender people and women. More here: hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...

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?

Why do you say Kamala (first name) but Putin (surname)?