Michael Timothy Bennett

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Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and unrealized possibili...

I like this paper, and not just for the obvious reason. A great summary of where we stand in thinking about types of mind. Nice also to see this made explicit: "All living systems share a fundamental property: agency."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837

I am immensely proud and grateful to announce that after so many years of hard work, my paper on biological vs artificial intelligence has been accepted to the oldest and longest-serving scientific journal in existence: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Experiencing a black swan event.

What kinds of cognitions are possible? Are there discrete classes of cognition? Here's our new paper with @brigan.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837 We explore basal, neural and human-AI spaces.

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Do you need your toes to think?

YESS!

Happy to see this one out 😎!

From your humble toes to your noble neurons, you need all your cells to solve your most important problem :

How to stay alive 😎😅

I started my PhD on the philosophy and neuroscience of consciousness in 2022. Even though people advised against it, I think it was good timing.

excellent timing

my phd thesis was comprised of 13 chapters, based on 13 of my papers, written under 13 advisors and completed on the 13th of may, 2025. guess what day they issued the degree on...

Happy to share that I’ll start as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Academic - Neuroscience of Consciousness journal 😎

Thrilled to join this fantastic team !

paint it black, in the style of pirates of the carribean. airport in taiwan had a grand piano, so i played it. wide eyed little kid offered me a tiny coin afterwards. made me smile

problem solved

Moreover, AGI might also require social interactions to become a reality, where cultural evolution (and extended mind) play a major role. It is not by chance that brain and culture evolved together, allowing complex minds to emerge @anilseth.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

lol. lmao even.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936

How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social

YouTube video by Giant's Shoulder Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!

youtu.be/GCnz1e54GBI?...
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Congratulations Dr Bennett!

Incredibly proud supervisor of this rockstar 😎💪🌟

Follow Michael for groundbreaking work on AI, consciousness and intelligence in biological and artificial systems!

Good news everyone! I have just been made an editor of the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence @agisociety.bsky.social

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :)

link: osf.io/preprints/th...

happy to announce i just got examiner feedback on my thesis. recommended for acceptance as is, no changes, no corrections :)

link: osf.io/preprints/th...

machine consciousness and @ricardsole.bsky.social's liquid vs solid brains from my interview with machine learning street talk.

watch the full video on yt: youtu.be/K18Gmp2oXIM?...
and spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

Intelligence Isn't What You Think YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

my machine learning street talk interview just dropped. thumbnail suggests it might melt your brain but i think you’ll be fine.

probably.

yt: www.youtube.com/watch?si=GMB...

spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2ejx...

Brillant talk by @mitibennett.bsky.social at AGI on Stack Theory based on his fantastic PhD thesis

How to build a conscious machine

osf.io/preprints/th...

Over 20k views 😎

Way to go Michael - up to the stars 🌟 !

The dream of any supervisor :

To see the name of your student coining a new method / approach 😎

When the shout out comes from a leading expert in the field is even more rewarding

Way to go @mitibennett.bsky.social !

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content "How to build conscious machines" by Michael Timothy Bennett

Honored to have presented my research on @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's YouTube channel!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=boTA...

waiting for my thesis to be examined

The No Body Problem: Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems Do you need a body to be an intelligent system? Clearly not. Artificial systems such as Large Language Models do not have a body and yet they are promptly qualified as intelligent and even conscious. ...

sciety-labs.elifesciences.org/articles/by?...