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Juan Diego Bogotá

@jdbogotaj.bsky.social

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Phenomenologist and philosopher of cognitive science / Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä / Working on the differentiation and boundaries between self and other

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 New article in #NCONSC!

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

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A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity

@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just accepted:

Situated Cognition in Early Modern Experimentation: The Case of Compelled Assent
– Kirsten Walsh, Adrian Currie & Tom Roberts

Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:

#philsci #philsky #hps

ABSTRACT. The early moderns surely didn’t defend an embodied, extended, embedded, or enacted conception of the mind, but we aim to show that this perspective can make sense of some of their practices; in particular, the epistemology of early modern experimentation. Focusing on Newton’s early optical work, we argue that the epistemic warrant he claims for his experimental results turns crucially on how the experimenter is situated towards gaining particular kinds of maker’s knowledge. Our account provides one answer to a long-standing puzzle regarding Newton’s method: his appeal to ‘compelled assent’ as an epistemic standard. We thus provide both a novel interpretation of Newton’s epistemology and a proof of concept towards applying tools from contemporary philosophy of mind to the history of science.

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 21

In case anybody is curious... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can the predictive mind represent time? A critical evaluation of predictive processing attempts to address husserlian time-consciousness - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Predictive processing is an increasingly popular explanatory framework developed within cognitive neuroscience. It conceives of the brain as a prediction machine that tries to minimise prediction erro...

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 21

I just got an email notifying me that a paper I published 2 years ago has finally been published in an actual issue of Phenomenology of the Cognitive Sciences. So now, a paper I wrote years ago and was "Bogotá (2023)" is now technically my latest publication. I don't know how to feel about all this

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sad that I missed the labubu on Marx's grave in my attempt to keep away from social media for some time!

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

It was great to work on this project led by Lars Sandved-Smith, and alongside @hohwy.bsky.social, @jdkiverstein.bsky.social, and @antoinelutz.bsky.social.

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

The idea is to aim at a disciplined circulation between first and third-person perspectives, using the formalism of deep parametric active inference and the dual information geometry of Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage.

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

More specifically, we aim to provide a principled methodology for the scientific study of consciousness that, following phenomenological philosophy, focuses not on the contents of experience (i.e., what is experienced) but on its structures (i.e., how it is experienced).

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel

academic.oup.com

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Adam Toon @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social · Jan 8

Out now! Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023) t.co/eBlYtDd5lY

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hi. DM me the details. 650 words sounds short for an article, so I’m a bit confused.

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 29

I love you Britain, but after having a proper taste of Finnish trains over the last four months I don’t think I want to travel in one of your trains ever again.

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Grupo Anfibio @grupoanfibio.bsky.social · Dec 17

El listado está lejos de ser completo. Por favor hagan sugerencias para completarlo. No se sientan incómodos al sugerir su propio nombre, y disculpas de antemano por la omisión. Gracias!

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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · Dec 10

Spanglish es my language del thought.

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 10

Two reviews, one talk, one abstract, one revision, and my birthday on a single week. Never again.

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 4

What makes it a bit funnier is that my PhD thesis was also titled 'Life and Mind'. But in my defense, that wasn't the title I wanted. For bureaucratic reasons, I had to submit a 'preliminary title' in a rush for the university to contact potential examiners, and then they didn't let me change it :(

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 4

I find it hilarious that Springer allowed two books in the same series to have essentially the same title.

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 4

Here is an open-access, pre-print version of the paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
But if anybody wants the pdf of the published version, reach out to me and I'll send it over.

(PDF) Where There Is Life There Is Mind… And Free Energy Minimisation?

PDF | This chapter explores the possibility of integrating the enactive and the Free Energy Principle’s (FEP) approaches to life and mind. Both... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 4

There is also a nice discussion about why I think that sense-making does not fall into the 'hard problem of content' that radical enactivists talk about. Cognition requires a non-representational form of content, and sense-making is just that.

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 4

Drawing from the latest literature, I show that even if the FEP by itself doesn't say much about life or mind specifically, it can be used to model the sense-making dynamics of organisms as described by the enactivists. The point is not to conflate operational, cognitive, and statistical boundaries.

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 4

New paper: I explore the possibility of integrating enactivism and the Free Energy Principle to address life and mind. I examine some of the arguments in favour and against their integration, and claim that something close to it is possible.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#philosophy #philsky

Where There Is Life There Is Mind… And Free Energy Minimisation?

This chapter explores the possibility of integrating the enactive and the Free Energy Principle’s (FEP) approaches to life and mind. Both frameworks have been linked to the life-mind continuity ...

link.springer.com

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Dec 2

It’s so heartbreaking when you’re reading a manuscript you are reviewing that at first shows a lot of promise, but then starts falling apart when the authors are developing their own proposal

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · Dec 2

📣Calling all enactivists and critics!

Russell Meyer, Marilyn Stendera and myself are guest editing a special issue for Adaptive Behaviour called "Prospects for the science of Enaction" and are looking for contributions!

You can read more about our call here: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

LISTSERV 16.5 - PHILOS-L Archives

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Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Nov 29

Oh yes. I just noticed that. I have no idea how or why that happened. Anyhow, thanks! :)

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Nov 29

Nope, I’m not . What makes you think so?

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Nov 28

I tend to tell myself that I am first and foremost a phenomenologist and that is all I want to write about, but then I go on to write 3000 words about the distinction between causal and constitutive scientific explanations. Oh well