Maria Luiza Iennaco

ahahahaha yessss it would be awesome!!

Physics and Self_Conference programme Physics and the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2025 Woburn Suite, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Keynote talks will last 45 m...

This weekend I'll be in London for the workshop "Physics and Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" 😍. Here is the program: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
And if you are interested in watching any presentation (including mine), here's the link: forms.office.com/e/9Nx9mYEdy3

Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change

Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro

This role looks truly exciting. I hope the right person comes along quickly. Good luck! 🙂

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆
Discusses how more standard network models miss key points of brain complexity. And some more radical points at the end.
Wrote paper having in mind younger researchers more open to new ideas :-)
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Poster for the XIV Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. The background is dark green with large yellow text and decorative abstract flower illustrations in red, yellow, and green at the corners. Dates ‘18–19 June’ appear at the top right, along with the venue: UNED, Edificio de Humanidades, Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7, Madrid. The keynote speakers are Enara García (SDU), Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (KU Leuven), and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED). A bold yellow banner reads ‘Call for Abstracts,’ with a deadline of 15 January. At the bottom is a contact email: xivpbcs@gmail.com

I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky

I'll be presenting this updated version this week, here in Porto: ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/c...

So excited to revisit one of my boldest talks (from my master's), where I tried to "destroy" de Cartesian Theater. Back then, I used to add lots of memes and cool pictures in my slide presentations. This cartoon by @petemandik.bsky.social is hilarious and perfect for an illusionist&Dennettian talk.

Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations” The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.

✨️Call for abstracts✨️
Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop
"Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations"
Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026

Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜
Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025
philevents.org/event/show/1...

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

The Attention in Contemporary Consciousness Science workshop was exactly the kind of meeting I needed to start understanding how my PhD connects with my main research topic: consciousness. My talk was warmly debated, and I had a great time in Pilsen. Thanks, Michal Polak and @tmarvan.bsky.social !

Now my new objective is to advance these arguments by connecting them with attention.

This chapter basically ties predictive processing with illusionism by replacing Seth's "hallucination" with "illusion". I think it works better and enables us to talk about subjectivity without the trad-philosophical heaviness.

Maria Luiza Iennaco, A Predictive and Illusionist perspective of human subjectivity - PhilPapers The main philosophical perspectives on human subjectivity uphold a series of properties that make it scientifically intractable. Given the importance of understanding subjectiveness in such terms, thi...

Here I am turning my attention to consciousness again, when I revisited my chapter on human subjectivity and realized it is actually a good text (I think)! I have issues with my published stuff, but this time I enjoyed reading it. philpapers.org/rec/IENAPA

I thank everyone that somehow contributed to shaping these arguments and helped me understand not only them but my very role in Cognitive Sciences. 💝

YouTube video by Active Inference Institute 5th Applied Active Inference Symposium (Part 2, Nov 13, 2025) ~ LIVE

youtu.be/1q40Jqk1HYs?...
I recently presented at the 5th AAIS, sharing the part of my research that explores, challenges, and bridges ActInf within neuroscience and the phil of attention. This marks a milestone in the development of my arguments, which I’ve been refining throughout the year.

Congratulations!

Cool events ahead!

Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function

And just like that, ISPSM 2025 is done! Thank you to all our wonderful speakers and participants for making it the event it was. We are touched to be a part of all of your philosophical journeys, and will continue to strive forward in our efforts to make it is truly global community ❤️

Pessoal, acaba de ser publicado na Principia um artigo escrito em coautoria com André Neiva no qual desenvolvemos uma crítica epistêmica ao negacionismo científico, procurando demonstrar sua irracionalidade.

Link abaixo.

Looking forward to this workshop!!

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity!

We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have:
(1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs)
(2) better hand dexterity
(3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday**
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains.
Join the discussion.

Canva is down, and all my unfinished slide presentations are ~only~ there y.y

Book cover of “What Is Life? Revisted” by Daniel J. Nicholson, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I've just finished the first course (of 5) of Python for Everybody Specialization, and I mean, I truly hope that THIS TIME I'll learn the basics of Python so that Computational Neuroscience can get less alien to my theoretical eyes.

And yes, it's a sunny Sunday, and here I am, programming. Tsc.

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

1st Basic Principles of Cognition (BPC) Conference 1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.

The conference was a blast! Thanks to everyone participating in-person and online and to our wonderful speakers for their amazing contributions!

Here are the abstracts of talks from the first edition: basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com/abstracts/

#cognition #philosophy #biology #psychology

Very sweet, nevertheless! It is like a big cherry tomato.