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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 1m

I don't think you need to go to a lower leve: bsky.app/profile/gual...

Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 2m

My commentary on Anil Seth's forthcoming BBS target article defending biological naturalism has been accepted. It's entitled "The Neurobiophysical Substrate of Consciousness":
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 2m

For now I've just posted it on Academia.edu. If you want to see it but lack access, let me know.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 2m

Therefore, computational functionalism fails and one of the following holds: biological naturalism, a nonbiological yet noncomputational version of functionalism, or a view according to which consciousness requires specific (macro)physical qualities.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 2m

Abstract: I argue that creature consciousness depends on specific neurobiophysical properties that constitute the medium for phenomenally conscious states. Such properties are not medium flexible in the way required by computational functionalism.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 2m

My commentary on Anil Seth's forthcoming BBS target article defending biological naturalism has been accepted. It's entitled "The Neurobiophysical Substrate of Consciousness":
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Alfredo Vernazzani @alfredovernazzani.bsky.social · 18d

This book is finally out. You'll find there our chapter on "Frames of discovery and the format of cognitive representation" by yours truly and Dimitri Coelho Mollo.

Thanks to @gualtiero.bsky.social for the amazing editirial work!

Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 19d

😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience

Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!

www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind

This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll send you an e-copy

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · 19d

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind is out. Check it out.

Beate Krickel @beakr.bsky.social · 19d

😊 So proud this is out now:
"Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories" #philsci #CognitiveNeuroscience

Thanks to @marielgoddu.bsky.social and to @gualtiero.bsky.social!

www.routledge.com/Neurocogniti...

Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind

This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind. The ris...

www.routledge.com

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 8

Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people - The Guardian

Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

You’re barely getting started 🤣

Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

The gist of the whole project is that levels of organization are interdependent. No to strong synchronic emergence (though yes to diachronic emergence), no to reduction or autonomy, yes to integration, multiscale modeling, multilevel mechanistic explanation.

Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

that article is too specific for your purposes. this is better: academic.oup.com/monist/artic...

An Egalitarian Account of Composition and Realization

Abstract. I argue that wholes are neither identical to nor (completely) distinct from their parts. Instead, wholes are invariants under some transformation

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

Bob continued to publish in philosophy into his 80s. Everything I read by him is insightful, original, and worth reading and thinking about.

I learned a lot from Bob. I will always remember his warmth, kindness, and insight.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

In 2005, I was hired to fill Bob's position after he retired from UMSL. Even though he had retired, he warmly welcomed me to the UMSL community and we became friends. For a number of years we ran a reading group in the philosophy of mind and mind sciences, along with others.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

These days, the view that cognition involves simulation (of the world as well as others) is mainstream. But when Bob came up with the view that understanding others involves simulating them, few if any people had similar ideas. He's been amply vindicated by the evolution of the mind sciences.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

As many of you know, Bob made important contributions to ethics and the philosophy of mind and the mind sciences. He is best known for creating the simulation theory of mindreading. His landmark paper, "Folk Psychology as Simulation," was published in 1986.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Sep 5

I recently learned that Robert "Bob" Gordon, of simulation theory fame, passed away on April 13, 2025, at the age of 92. A celebration of his life will occur on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 5:00 – 7:00 pm Central at the Ethical Society of St. Louis.
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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks you for your helpful feedback!

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 25

What do you mean by ‘image character’? I haven’t heard that term before

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 23

👇🙏😚

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Aug 21

This paper by @gualtiero.bsky.social gives a great overview of the (unnecessary and unfounded) conflation of computationalism and functionalism: philarchive.org/rec/PICFC

Gualtiero Piccinini, Functionalism, Computationalism, & Mental States - PhilArchive

Some philosophers have conflated functionalism and computationalism. I reconstruct how this came about and uncover two assumptions that made the conflation possible. They are the assumptions that (i) ...

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 20

I think the best version of functionalism is integrated with mechanism. See Ch. 4 of Neurocognitive Mechanisms.

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Computation in Physical Systems (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 20

A substantively revised version of the SEP entry on Computation in Physical Systems, with several updates, new references, and other improvements, just came live. Link below.

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check this out:

🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · Aug 9

I’m looking forward to our symposium at @ispsm.bsky.social on Sat at 5:30pm CEST. Zoom in to catch me, @kenaizawa.bsky.social, @gualtiero.bsky.social, and @francesegan.bsky.social talk about realism in Neuroscience! 🧠 🥳

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