Marco Facchin

When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension - Review of Philosophy and Psychology The advent of novel technologies has bolstered the idea of extended memory, where memory processes extend beyond the human body or brain. However, investigations of extended memory, and extended cogni...

My article "When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension" is now available open access from Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

This is part of a special issue on "Memory and Technology: 4E Perspectives"

What motivates mental fictionalism? Mental fictionalists propose that we should continue to engage in truth-conditional discourse about the mind, even though we have reason to believe that the discourse lacks truthmakers. In Mind As ...

🚨New publication🚨: my paper 'What motivates mental fictionalism?' is part of a Philosophical Psychology symposium on Mind As Metaphor by @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huzzah! The PhilSci preprint archive for #philsci papers is finally on Bsky! Give them a follow to keep up with latest work in field ⬇️
@philsci-archive.bsky.social

Matthias Michel, Bet on functionalism - PhilPapers I argue that there is currently no alternative to functionalism. Functionalism explains the differences between types of mental states. No biological theory does. Functionalist theories account for th...

My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.

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Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow) - A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction

Our first keynote of ISPSM 2025 kicks off with Sabrina Coninx @sconinxphil.bsky.social media who is speaking about disruptive technologies and human niche construction! 📡

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Keynote Talk: Sabrina Coninx (UVA) - Distruptive Technology and Human Niche Construction

#PhiMiSci published a new standalone article: In “What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away”, Darius Parvizi-Wayne argues that both new and old attempts to solve the frame problem on the basis of the active inference framework are explanatorily inadequate.

My paper on Predictive Processing and structure function mapping is finally officially out on Biology & Philosophy.
Readcube here, rdcu.be/eMiw7 & abstract in the comments

#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

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we need a way to fine and jail perpetrators of slopaganda

Someone updated this meme.

"Without weighing in directly on the Trump admin's effort at extorting concessions from universities, I wanted to share a short post from Alan Jacobs, a thoughtful Christian conservative who teaches at Baylor. His point is worth taking seriously."

Linker & Jacobs should both know better. It is not reasonable to demand, as a condition of opposing Trump's 'compact', that liberals admit - what clearly isn't true - that the Biden administration's transgender policies were a pretextual, bad faith effort to exclude conservatives from employment.

HELLO THERE, from this white-browed coucal in #Serengeti. And happy #flyday.

#birds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #nikon

Two people watering plants in a giant head

Latest papers: Marco Facchin shows how Toon’s fictionalism entails a specific form of the extended mind thesis doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky. #philpsy

Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common-sense conception of visio...

In a new paper, Keith Allen and colleagues show that people vacillate between at least two views of seeing: a) we see things themselves, and b) we see things indirectly via mental images and inference. Both are "common sense." Read the whole paper here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26863/

New paper on Predictive Processing is forthcoming in Biology & Philosophy. The basic gist of the paper is: Predictive processing, in its most ambitiously unificatory form, entails equipotentialism.
Preprint and full abstract below

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Questa è, o era, l'ambulanza che un nostro caro amico e volontario di Bologna ha portato in Ucraina.

Centrata da un drone ieri pomeriggio, i volontari stanno tutti bene, ma urge il bisogno di trovare un'altra ambulanza. Non ho più parole per descrivere questo infinito terrore.

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

The enemies of freedom

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Miller is a nazi.

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

Conversely, there are no prominent R's who have the sobriety and integrity to point out that high-level elected officials - like the President and the VP - have a special duty not to spew inflammatory lies. There are no D's inflaming violence & no R's who will call out their side for doing so.

SC =?