CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026.
Deadline: March 31.
Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir.
A good contribution to the debate about mental/neural representations
Thanks! I wish I had time to read it now 😬
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Beautiful new paper out from the Peyrache lab. Shows an incredibly stable code for head direction.
Representational drift ain't a thang y'all...
#neuroscience 🧪
CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026.
Deadline: March 31.
Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir.
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Later this month in Berlin, with @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social
@francesegan.bsky.social @davidcolaco.bsky.social
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
A chat among the past and present editors of the Brains Blog for its 20th anniversary.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeld...
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My friend and mentor, the wonderful philosopher Jim Bogen, has died. #HPS #Philsci
dailynous.com/2025/12/04/j...
Why you should stop using the label "cognitive science" and use "mind sciences" instead (or something like that): philosophyofbrains.com/2025/11/08/f...
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Check out this excellent paper:
Looking forward to this too!
Many thanks to Otavio Bueno for making this possible.
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arxiv.org/abs/2510.10251
So, I will try to put together a monograph and turn this paper into at least two of its chapters. The monograph is tentatively entitled Neurocognitive Architecture: Foundations for a Unified Theory of Mind and is under contract with Springer for their Synthese Library.
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The paper is 25,000 words, too long for a journal article and yet rather compressed. Several aspects deserve to be addressed in more detail. It would also benefit from being placed in a broader context.
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As always, further feedback is welcome, especially in light of the following.
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The paper defends the Nonclassical LOT thesis that some neural representations represent in a (natural) language-like way, yet they encode information nondigitally and are processed by ordinary (Nonclassical) neural computations that rely not only on syntactic structure but other features.
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(3) It discusses the degree to which different LOT hypotheses are supported or undermined by neuroscientific evidence about computational architecture and concludes that Classical LOT is ruled out while a version of Nonclassical LOT is plausible.
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2) It rebuts some popular arguments for Classical (Fodorian) LOT, including the argument that neuroscientific evidence is merely relevant to how computations are implemented.
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The paper advances the debate in three ways: (1) It distinguishes different LOT hypotheses—including Representational, Computational, Classical, and Nonclassical LOT hypotheses—in terms of the computational architecture they require. This clarifies LOT's empirical commitments.
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The main argument is the same but I've made a few tweaks and added some footnotes. I have now posted it on the ArXiv (link in comments) and a couple of other places so it can be cited in a stable form.
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A paper on mine entitled "Neural Hardware for the Language of Thought: New Rules for an Old Game" has been circulating since early 2025 and has been cited in print. I have received anonymous feedback from some Classical LOT supporters and made some revisions to address their concerns.
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I don't think you need to go to a lower leve: bsky.app/profile/gual...
