🚨 Just published in AI Advances
No Storm in the Simulation, No Ghost in the Machine
Why real consciousness can’t be uploaded, simulated, or scaled into existence.
Embodied cognition, analog dynamics, morphological computation.
https://ai.gopubby.com/no-storm-in-the-simulation-no-ghost-in-the-machine-318e250c22b2a
#AI #Consciousness #EmbodiedCognition #LLM #AGI #Neurotech #Memristors
Monday Love to your Creative Cognition
“ Anatomy is destiny.”
~ Sigmund Freud
Where does your brain stop and your body begin? Do your mental processes have a boundary? What do we mean by ‘cognition’ anyway?
#EmbodiedCognition #CreativeMind #MovementMatters #MindBodyConnection #ConsciousDance #CreativeFlow #BodyWisdom #DanceTherapy #MindfulMovement #SomaticPractice #NeuroscienceOfMovement #ArtInMotion #FlowState #CreativeAwareness #DanceHealing
https://consciousdancer.com/monday-love-to-your-creative-cognition/
Okay, this is a long and meandering post: Deconstructing “What’s Worth Doing?” But, I use (and made!) lots and LOTS of pictures—30 pictures!! 🤪 This is me looking at *HOW* a specific learning card deck encourages and supports better thinking. And other ways this could have been done.
https://stephenanderson.medium.com/deconstructing-whats-worth-doing-723b06d35dbd
#CardGames #CardGame #CardDecks #play #EmbodiedCognition #cards #SeriousGames #learning #SelfReflection
LLMs lack bodies. Chemero (2023): Embodiment shapes human thought. Mice navigate via physical interaction (Shamash et al.). Can algorithms ever “understand” without senses, pain, or movement? Or is cognition inherently tied to flesh?
#EmbodiedCognition #AIlimitations #Neuroscience
🔍🧠 Words don’t just have meaning – they feel different in your brain! Our study shows that even in quick word tasks, sensory meanings light up: Seeing “white” in our mind is faster than feeling “warm”. But why do some senses dominate while others lag behind? Find out more in our new study! #MindBlown #EmbodiedCognition #Language
Platonova, O., & Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Warm and fuzzy: Perceptual semantics can be activated even during shallow lexical processing. JEP:LMC. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001429
I wrote a little something about WHY I care so much about "Playful Things to Think With"
I am glad to let you known the #CLEA research group is hosting another online meeting on the foundations of #cognitivescience!
This time we will discuss the relation between the concept of #mentalrepresentation and #situatedness in #cognition and #embodiedcognition through the work of Gualtiero Piccinini (main speaker) and Marco Facchin (commentator).
To know more and register, please check:
https://clea.group
Hope to see you there!
Full details of the new taught MA programme are now on @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social’s website at https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/study/postgraduate/ma/mind. #Philosophy #PhilMind #EmbodiedCognition #CognitiveScience
Excited to announce that from 2024/25, #UCD will offer a taught Masters programme in #PhilosophyOfMind and #EmbodiedCognition. In addition to a wide range of #philosophy modules, students can select options from UCD’s interdisciplinary #CognitiveScience programme. Email or message for details!
Awesome day 1 of Embodied Cognition and Learning class! We explored a network connecting us to theories and topics of interest and then discussed how embodying this with ourselves and balloons had different affordances than visualizing with software. #EmbodiedCognition #LearningSciences @learningsciences
Exciting new open access paper in ijcscl by led by Xintian Tu! We explore how gesture and embodiment are powerful communicative tools in a MR environment, and how some of these key embodiments carry over into interview contexts! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11412-023-09395-z @learningsciences #LearningSciences #EmbodiedCognition #MixedReality
Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition - free #ebook https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/embodied-and-enactive-approaches-to-cognition/FFAB4E136E12255CD3139A87ECB2DCAD
See also these encyclopedic entries on #Enactivism https://iep.utm.edu/enactivism/ and #EmbodiedCognition https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
#cognition @cogsci
Removing the historical bias, science finds creativity and the potentials for enhanced therapies.
https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-cognition-22907/
#StitchedInkMedia #Self #Individual #Flipboard #Psychology #Nature #Science #Biodiversity #Diversity #Philosophy #Emotions #Consciousness #EmbodiedCognition #Creativity
Excellent article on the importance of retaining the feeling of self, heightened or lessened through the act of living with it, and as an image kept or lost.
Emotions and Consciousness Woven from the Self
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfilling-our-highest-possibility/202303/emotions-and-consciousness-woven-from-the-self
#StitchedInkMedia #Self #Individual #Flipboard #Psychology #Nature #Science #Biodiversity #Diversity #Philosophy #Emotions #Consciousness #EmbodiedCognition
New preprint with Rens van Hoef and Louise Connell
The effects of sensorimotor and linguistic information on the basic-level advantage.
Sensorimotor & linguistic distributional distance outperform discrete taxonomic levels.
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7d8u6
#embodiedCognition #cognition #language
A recurring theme:
Do bad science, then tout the application of that bad science as a revolution in education.
"Embodied Cognition for Kids: Applying Principles of Embodiment to Education"
https://www.psychonomic.org/page/oneworld-glenberg
See also: #LearningStyles
I will spend the time around new year in a remote montain hut in Italy without internet. I would like to use the quiet time to learn more about #embodiedcognition. Any suggestions for a book or podcast? #embodiment #cognition
Recent server move means I have no post plugging my main project, so here it is!
Red Enlightenment: On #Socialism #Science and #Spirituality is 1) a book coming out in 2023 and 2) a scripted podcast which was the book's rough first draft https://soundcloud.com/repeater-radio/sets/red-enlightenment
For fans of #cybernetics #theology #LiberationTheology #ProcessThought #complexitytheory #ecology #marxism #acidcommunism #philosophyofscience #metaphysics #EmbodiedCognition #metamodernism @philosophy @theologidons
If the mind isnt just bound to the brain, but extends through tools we're familiar with — hammers, calculators, cars being felt as extensions of the body — then smartphones and social media platforms could be seen likewise as part of our extended mind.
Losing part of your mind might feel uncomfortable. Growing a new part might feel unusual too. But both could also feel liberating.
I think I'm feeling a bit of all of these at the moment
