@sschellenberg
Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), http://tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux perception, cognition, reflexivity in biological and AI systems.π€π§ π©βπ¬π§ͺ http://susannaschellenberg.org
Just learned about this:
rentahuman.ai
AI bots can rent a human to do things AI systems canβt do, such as sign papers. There are over 100,000 people on the site who are paid for their work.
I learnt a huge amount and very much enjoyed this event at Bochum. Many thanks to the wonderful people at Bochum for organizing and special thanks to Julia Wolf, Ayoob Shahmoradi, Sara PapiΔ, and Max Minden Riberio for the excellent talks. philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2025/11/...
Excellent new paper by Jordan Scott forthcoming in AJP. This paper was a core chapter of his recently defended dissertation. philpapers.org/rec/SCOTRM-2
Pleased to share new work with @sflippl.bsky.social @eberleoliver.bsky.social @thomasmcgee.bsky.social & undergrad interns at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA.
Algorithmic Primitives and Compositional Geometry of Reasoning in Language Models
www.arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15987
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I think you already speak several languages, so you are good!
Sea urchins are mostly brains in a spiky shell? Soo cool! π€―
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Open-weight models are becoming increasingly capable while creating risks beyond those that already exist for closed-weight models.
To continue benefiting from the advantages of open-weight models, we must develop risk mitigation methodologies specifically for them, as discussed in this paper.
And it was as enjoyable as the first half!
Since my interview with Richard Brown abruptly ended after an hour, we did another one. This one is less free-floating than the first and includes a lot of discussion of representation, content, and the like. As someone in the chat commented dryly, βEndless discussions about semanticsβ.
Enjoyed this interview with @onemorebrown.bsky.social. We discuss #perception, #AI, #perspectives, #capacities, @neddo.bsky.social, #Fodor, #Chomsky, the performance/competences distinction, the relation between capacities and representational states, and much else. www.youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm!
youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
About to do a live podcast. Wish me luck. youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...
Congratulations to Jordan Scott for defending what was allegedly just one dissertation, but in fact was two: one in the philosophy of race, and one in epistemology. He is now off to Oxford for a three-year postdoc, and will be much missed here at Rutgers.
What do you think he means with "you have to dive down ... and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you"?
From Kafka's diaries. The struggle is real.
Deadline for submission is on Dec. 15.
CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...
Congratulations to Mazviita Chirimuuta for winning the 2025 Lakatos Award for her book βThe Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscienceβ.
Itβs like watching a couple who waited too long to get divorced.
It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(via Bernard Kobes)
oh wow wow wow. Wow.
It's officially out, after many years:
"Loopholes: A window into value alignment and the communication of meaning"
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k~vV_Ebvv...
Read on for a brief summary, but I encourage you to read the thing itself.
Pleased this is out. π academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
The paper argues that there is an overlooked distinction in relational ethics regarding the ground of relational moral demands.
My Neural Mechanisms Online talk 'Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits' takes place on Monday April 28th - 7am for me, more civilized hours for most of the rest of you! Responses from Gualtiero Piccinini and Edouard Machery.
www.neuralmechanisms.org/webinarserie...
Yay Harvard!!!!!!! Well done! Other universities should do the same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
The line between brains and computer chips just got blurrier. Everyday chips made to work like neurons with a simple modification. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
