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CMB Seminar 2026 | Tolchinsky : "Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization..."
CMB Seminar 2026 | Tolchinsky : "Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization..." YouTube video by Transcultural Psychiatry

A recording of a recent talk at McGill, The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry.

Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8me...

08.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From complementarity to non-duality: Seeing objects and processes as pragmatic constructs

Replies to the comments on
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

is now out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"From complementarity to non-duality: Seeing objects and processes as pragmatic constructs"

05.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Trump administration just made ALL energy more expensive.

Renewables: Permitting bottlenecks
Gas: Unbridled exports
Oil: War in Iran
Coal: Mandated coal generation

02.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you from all of us.

02.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More diversion of attention from those on whom attention should be focused.

02.03.2026 06:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And I hope, Senator Heinrich, working full time to remove the perpetrator of this illegal war from office.

02.03.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A perspective, in 2 parts:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mind Everywhere: A Framework for Conceptualizing Goal-Directedness in Biology and Other Domainsβ€”Parts One and Two

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26.02.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Victory! The Immigrant Safety Act was just signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.

New Mexico is sending a message: ICE can't be allowed to continue terrorizing our communities.

05.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

Thanks!

07.02.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement cons…

2nd Ed of "The AI Wars" is now available from Bloomsbury:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/great-phi...

08.01.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought

What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social

27.11.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 14
Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields
Conversation 1 with Diana Moga, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Chris Fields YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

A conversation with Diana Moga, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social and me on autism - diagnosis, treatment, biases, models, prevalence of trauma, environmental issues.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO-...

#autism
#ASD

29.11.2025 12:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Fortunately these fake papers are still reasonably easy to spot.

23.11.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Physics of Free Will β€” A dialogue with Chris Fields β€œIf anything has free will, everything does.” β€” Chris Fields

Delighted to be interviewed by @gunnargronlid.bsky.social for his new hbar Journal:
hbarjournal.substack.com/p/the-physic...

01.11.2025 14:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

23.10.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.

Just out today - generic agents and the FEP from unmodified quantum information theory.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

21.10.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Operational protocols cannot certify classicality The existence and practical utility of operational protocols that certify entanglement raises the question of whether operational protocols exist that certify the absence of entanglement, i.e. that ce...

New preprint showing that the classicality of the observed world can only be a pragmatic assumption.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.08239

10.10.2025 16:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Amplituhedra for Generic Quantum Processes from Computation-Scattering Correspondence We study the relationship between computation and scattering both operationally (hence phenomenologically) and formally. We show how topological quantum neural networks (TQNNs) enable universal quantu...

New preprint constructing geometric representations of computations: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19772

04.10.2025 13:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

05.09.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Frontiers | Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: theoretical model Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

05.09.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable - IOPscience Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable, Fields, Chris, Glazebrook, James F., MarcianΓ², Antonino, Zappala, Emanuele

Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable
doi.org/10.1209/0295...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

05.09.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

29.08.2025 11:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday

A useful guide to our era: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

24.08.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent

Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience"

Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

24.04.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Negligence? As if he's not sharing military plans via Signal on purpose? How about "violation of the Espionage Act"?

26.04.2025 06:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sure looks like it.

11.04.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In the language of computation, the history of anything is an execution trace, not a function. Execution traces are constructive and generally not ergodic. I don't see any disagreement with classical physics being computational.

06.04.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Burn him!

06.04.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In New Mexico, we stand up for workers and justice. I
marched alongside the fierce Dolores Huerta and community this morning in Barelas. In this moment, in this country, we have to harness our strength, stand together and fight for what is right, and I'm not backing down.

05.04.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 425 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3
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Today, we’re saying hands off
Medicaid, Social Security, VA benefits and all of the programs that New Mexicans rely on. As we stand together, we send a clear message: we will never stop organizing and we will stand up for our communities!

05.04.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5