David Vanegas

Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth

Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote this for today's @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The 1st Dennett Prize being awarded to Andy Clark (who else?). Very nice ceremony and lecture!

This time, for real, I will try to be more active here than on the other site. 🤪

Breaking news! Two more articles for our special issue of Philosophical Psychology. First: Marco Facchin argues that my version of mental fictionalism entails the existence of extended mental states: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @journalphp.bsky.social @marcofacchin.bsky.social 1/2

What are the best, or classic, works on whatever you consider higher cognition/thinking? 👀

Celebrating 2000 Elements: Elements in Philosophy of the Mind « News# « Cambridge Core Blog The American adventurer Chris McCandless said that happiness is only real when it is shared. I would say something similar about knowledge. A piece of academic research may be rigorous, original, and ...

I wrote a piece for the Cambridge Core Blog about the Elements in Philosophy of Mind series I edit. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

In philosophy, if you think the answer's obvious, then you haven't understood the question.

Philosophy is the art of thinking about things we don't know how to think about.

Mind & Language: Vol 0, No 0 Click on the title to browse this issue

the whole symposium about my work with Luis Favela on the concept of neural representation is now online at Mind & Language.

And what do you think about them?

I checked out the Brain-Mind one (the natural philosophy one it seems interesting, but it's not available on LibGen), and, tbh, I found it lacking.

You mean the trilogy about brain to mind, mind to society, and natural philosophy? 🤔

Paper about all the things with Taraneh Wilkinson officially out now and open access. “Affordances, phenomenology, pragmatism and the myth of the given” in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

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

Thank you!

In my case, luckily, the craving is gone. And I hope it keeps that way.

It has been over a week since I quit smoking, and it has been suspiciously easy. 👀

YouTube video by Josh Bongard 2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 4. Embodied cognition.

Lecture 4 of evolutionary robotics course: Embodied cognition.

youtu.be/qBqlQsq1mXQ

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Any suggestion or tip? 😅

It's a fact, I will be working on inner speech! 🤓

A particularly sultry black-and-white image of Paul and Patricia Churchland

My partner's visual cortex and my visual cortex stimulated as a result of photons reflecting off of you across the bar, causing us to have pleasure sensations 420 and 69. Now our prefrontal cortices are directing our mouths to ask if we can buy you a drink

Oh, I see. Thanks for the clarification!

Indeed. Even tho I'm not sure if it's the easiest option, but I do think that it's more viable to make some progress in that subject. 😅

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the expression. What do you mean? 😅

Plot twist: I ended up in Philosophy of mind and cogsci. 😂

In my case I was interested in how the mind works and all that, but everything and everyone was about clinical psychology.

I was *so* lucky that I met a teacher that invited me to a research group, and from that point onward I had the space and the encouragement to go after what was my interest!

Something that can be seen as curious.

In the clinical psychology the most popular kind of therapies between the students are the psychodynamical, humanistic, and neobehaviorist ones.

And between those interested on mind, cognition etc. Freud, Skinner and Vygotsky still are the go-to names.

At my Uni, for example, those that are interested in cognition per se, tend to come from philosophy, psychiatry, biology.

Here in Colombia, since a couple of years, psychology is considered a health science, so the emphasis in the undergrad formation is on clinical psychology.

It's such a shame, since that, to begin with, not many people get into psychology here interested in cognition. And it's even worse now!

Indeed, I think I can do something more original on inner speech —it also helps that the amount of material about it is not soooo vast as with mental representation.

A Desiderata for a theory of inner speech and its role in cognition must be the way that complements the embodied and situated perspective about online cognition.

More and more this subject seems to be really promising!

I will!