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Xabier Barandiaran

@xabibaran.bsky.social

philosophy, autonomy, mind, life, machines, politics https://xabier.barandiaran.net

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ENSO Seminar Series

The December 2025 ENSO is next week!
Particularly delighted to have @xabibaran.bsky.social joining us to discuss "Generactive Midtended Cognition and AI: thinging with thinging things"

Thursday 4th Dec @ 1000 UTC (see link for details and time in your own timezone)

ensoseminars.com/presentation...

29.11.2025 12:21 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Transforming agency: On the mode of existence of large language models - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - This paper investigates the ontological characterization of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Between inflationary and deflationary accounts, we...

How ChatGPT is transforming agency:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you are interested on the ontological status of LLMs or want to get a better technical grasp on their internal functioning (without a maths or engineering background) this might be a good starting point.

23.08.2025 14:09 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
ChatGPT fails on counting how many right angles are in the word TEN

ChatGPT fails on counting how many right angles are in the word TEN

PhD level intelligence in all domains... Right at your fingertips 😅

10.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Grappling w my identity as a reluctant enactivist...
My favorite formulation of the approach so far is @xabibaran.bsky.social's "Autonomy and enactivism: Towards a theory of sensorimotor autonomous agency" (2017)

link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

IMO, it does three great things:

18.07.2025 09:20 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0