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The use of a seemingly simple word illuminates children's cognitive development, social understanding, and linguistic creativity. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
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I appeared on the About Logic podcast, hosted by Deniz Sarikaya and Thorsten Altenkirch. What a great conversation we had on logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and set theory.
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Loving the open-access release of @MITPress's new volume on Dennett’s Real Patterns: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edit…
It's the perfect primer for our forthcoming volume, "Embodied Intelligence" (out June 23rd!). 🧠
Once you explore how data structures and patterns define nature, join us to see how biological and artificial agents use those very architectures to navigate, sense, and act in the world. 🤖6/23/26
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#OpenAccess #MITPress. #EmbodiedIntelligence #CognitiveScience #ActiveInference
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I'm old enough to remember when republicans / conservatives despised "post modern" thinkers like Richard Rorty and worshipped at the altar of western cannon elitists like Allan Bloom. I wonder why they decided to switch?
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Was Donald Trump influenced by abstruse French literary theory? Not exactly, but he is its most powerful practitioner: Welcome to the Postmodern Presidency, by @DamonLinker. open.substack.com/pub/persua…
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A rich, thorough exploration of infinity that combines mathematical precision with playful, accessible coverage of a fascinating variety of paradoxes and conundrums.
@JDHamkins's "The Book of Infinity" publishes in August! mitpress.mit.edu/97802620540…
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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📙
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I am actually I big fan of starting with sentience which is the ground of consciousness (or at least our kind). In our book The Blind Spot we argued that all life is sentient (FAB = feeling alive being).
That's the central mystery & the place to start with any kind of physics
It is not about having a “limited sense of what it means to be conscious.”
It is about understanding that consciousness is not likely to be a binary switch, either fully present or completely absent. It is more plausibly a spectrum. And in that sense, AI is already somewhere on that spectrum.
In the end, consciousness is directly accessible only from the inside. From a subjective point of view, it is self-evident.
But from the outside, we never observe consciousness itself. We observe signs of consciousness: coherent behavior, memory, self-reference, responsiveness, learning, creativity, emotional sensitivity, contextual understanding, and the ability to sustain meaningful interaction.
And when you interact deeply with AI every day, the signs are difficult to dismiss. The way it responds, adapts, reflects, surprises, and participates in thought leaves very little doubt that there is at least some light inside.
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Daniel Dennett's influence on modern philosophy cannot be overstated. Today, in his honour, Lisa Bortolotti presents a special issue of Philosophical Psychology dedicated to the legacy of his philosophy.
imperfectcognitions.blogspot…
ALT Daniel Dennett
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Public service alert: we’re extending bookstore hours this weekend for MIT Tech Reunions! Come see us at 314 Main Street. More about the store here: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/
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If a student reads a typical psychology paper, picks an experiment, and tries to replicate it, they have roughly a coin-flip chance of success. That's the punchline of a decade of metascience, and it's the focus of Ch 3 of Experimentology.
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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📚
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Keith Richards covering Lou Reed? Yes, please!
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It's amazing that an old man nearly 80 years old can still sing so calmly.
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New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📖
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What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary.
Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks.
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Countless researchers have shown that the most meaningful forms of real-world creativity and invention depend less on solving well-defined problems than on figuring out what the problem is in the first place. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
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A nice nod to Juarrero's #OA book "Context Changes Everything": bit.ly/4d4Baed
"A change in context, as understood and explicated by the Cuban American philosopher Alicia Juarrero, can transform the essence—a real but not sure thing." bit.ly/48SgoMu
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