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Michael Timothy Bennett

@mitibennett

awrd wnning AGI rsrchr (2 awrds so far) | mtlhed | msician | fnishng CS PhD | optmst | opn src enthusiast | michaeltimothybennett.com/research

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Is Complexity anΒ Illusion? Simplicity is held by many to be the key to general intelligence. Simpler models tend to “generalise”, identifying the cause or generator of data with greater sample efficiency. The implic...

You might like this link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

03.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!

Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any disciplineβ€”and storytellers in any mediumβ€”are encouraged to apply!

More info: disi.org

02.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

Same amazing community, new location this year!!

Feel free to reach out with questions. And please share widely!

02.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We have a fab line up of podcasts& talks on embodied agency in biological & artificial systems!

Watch this space 😎

13.02.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

thanks!

04.02.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and unrealized possibili...

I like this paper, and not just for the obvious reason. A great summary of where we stand in thinking about types of mind. Nice also to see this made explicit: "All living systems share a fundamental property: agency."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837

04.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am immensely proud and grateful to announce that after so many years of hard work, my paper on biological vs artificial intelligence has been accepted to the oldest and longest-serving scientific journal in existence: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

04.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Experiencing a black swan event.

04.02.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What kinds of cognitions are possible? Are there discrete classes of cognition? Here's our new paper with @brigan.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837 We explore basal, neural and human-AI spaces.

21.01.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks!

09.12.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ˜ŽπŸ˜…

27.11.2025 11:04 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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I started my PhD on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness in 2022. Even though people advised against it, I think it was good timing.

26.11.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

excellent timing

26.11.2025 07:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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my phd thesis was comprised of 13 chapters, based on 13 of my papers, written under 13 advisors and completed on the 13th of may, 2025. guess what day they issued the degree on...

15.11.2025 06:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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 !

14.11.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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paint it black, in the style of pirates of the carribean. airport in taiwan had a grand piano, so i played it. wide eyed little kid offered me a tiny coin afterwards. made me smile

18.10.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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problem solved

18.10.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Moreover, AGI might also require social interactions to become a reality, where cultural evolution (and extended mind) play a major role. It is not by chance that brain and culture evolved together, allowing complex minds to emerge @anilseth.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

11.10.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper β€œFundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

08.10.2025 23:10 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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lol. lmao even.

06.10.2025 09:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

02.10.2025 09:04 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!
Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious! YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder

youtu.be/GCnz1e54GBI?...
😊

30.09.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Congratulations Dr Bennett!

Incredibly proud supervisor of this rockstar 😎πŸ’ͺ🌟

Follow Michael for groundbreaking work on AI, consciousness and intelligence in biological and artificial systems!

29.09.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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29.09.2025 07:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Good news everyone! I have just been made an editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence @agisociety.bsky.social

23.09.2025 02:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :)

link: osf.io/preprints/th...

20.09.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :)

link: osf.io/preprints/th...

20.09.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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machine consciousness and @ricardsole.bsky.social's liquid vs solid brains from my interview with machine learning street talk.

watch the full video on yt: youtu.be/K18Gmp2oXIM?...
and spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

01.09.2025 07:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Intelligence Isn't What You Think YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

my machine learning street talk interview just dropped. thumbnail suggests it might melt your brain but i think you’ll be fine.

probably.

yt: www.youtube.com/watch?si=GMB...

spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

29.08.2025 06:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brillant talk by @mitibennett.bsky.social at AGI on Stack Theory based on his fantastic PhD thesis

How to build a conscious machine

osf.io/preprints/th...

Over 20k views 😎

Way to go Michael - up to the stars 🌟 !

12.08.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0