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Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any disciplineβand storytellers in any mediumβare encouraged to apply!
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We have a fab line up of podcasts& talks on embodied agency in biological & artificial systems!
Watch this space π
thanks!
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
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.
Experiencing a black swan event.
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.
thanks!
Do you need your toes to think?
YESS!
Happy to see this one out π!
From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :
How to stay alive ππ
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.
excellent timing
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...
Happy to share that Iβll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal π
Thrilled to join this fantastic team !
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
problem solved
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
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 βFundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systemsβ @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
lol. lmao even.
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
Congratulations Dr Bennett!
Incredibly proud supervisor of this rockstar ππͺπ
Follow Michael for groundbreaking work on AI, consciousness and intelligence in biological and artificial systems!
Good news everyone! I have just been made an editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence @agisociety.bsky.social
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...
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...
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...
my machine learning street talk interview just dropped. thumbnail suggests it might melt your brain but i think youβll be fine.
probably.
yt: www.youtube.com/watch?si=GMB...
spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...
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 π
Way to go Michael - up to the stars π !