Matheus Diesel

Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!

I think it is actually quite a striking feature of contemporary analytic philosophy that a non-trivial amount of time is spent arguing about the appropriate immediate emotional reaction to micro-fictions.

"How to have ideas"

August 12th, 13th, 14th in Belo Horizonte and on-line.

CFP: philevents.org/event/show/1...

saiu nosso artigo sobre desigualdade de gênero na pós-graduação em filosofia. Comparamos a filosofia com outras áreas e discutimos a relação de gênero entre orientador(a)-orientando(a).
publicacoes.fcc.org.br/cp/article/v...

Remembering and relearning: against exclusionism - Philosophical Studies Many philosophers endorse “exclusionism”, the view that no instance of relearning qualifies as a case of genuine remembering, and vice versa. Appealing to simulationist, distributed causalist, and tra...

My paper, “Remembering and relearning: against exclusionism”, has been assigned to an issue of Philosophical Studies: link.springer.com/article/10.1....

My paper on memory and imagination as attitudes is finally out in print! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Obrigado! :D

Matheus Diesel Werberich, Remembering and imagining as attitudes: an interpretivist account - PhilPapers The (dis)continuism problem asks if episodic memory is continuous with imagination. Given its close proximity with the cognitive sciences, philosophers have traditionally taken this issue as part of a...

Here's a link for the preprint: philpapers.org/rec/DIERAI-2

My paper, "Remembering and imagining as attitudes", just got accepted at Synthese today! Super happy about that! 🎊🎉

SPAN 2025: Call for papers 🧠
Submission deadline: February 1, 2025

Keynote and invited symposia schedule coming soon!

Visit: philandneuro.com/submissions

Memory: Nature or Nurture? César Schirmer dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria)

A very interesting post on how we learn to remember, from
César Schirmer dos Santos (Federal University of Santa Maria)!
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

New blog post: Philosophy of mind has changed a lot, with a truly massive shift toward empirically-informed work — but we still have in place various norms and institutions that were created decades ago and don’t make sense for the field as it is now

xphi.net/2024/12/02/p...

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

On "not using copilot" by @macwright.com macwright.com/2024/11/20/n...

I like this thought of "solitary exercise vs. micromanaging" as different [thinking] processes

This one is now in print - as part of a special issue at
Computational Brain and Behavior on "What makes a good theory?"

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

Picture of sunrise on a college campus, with a notebook and a coffee cup on the foreground

Nice chilly morning to write! #phdlife #phdsky

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,195,551!

Eu adoro tanto esses livros que fiz uma tatuagem sobre eles! Minha avó chegou a conhecer o Érico Veríssimo uma vez e ainda hoje tem uma cópia autografada da Clarissa. De longe meu autor preferido ❤️

Page of book "Modularity of mind".

Reading Fodor late in the afternoon while waiting for the train #PhDSky #PhDLife

Have to promote my boyfriend's work here! He's a super talented digital artist, specializing in cartoons and phantasy drawings :D www.tinybard.art

went camping this weekend on Mark Twain Forest. It was soo much fun! 🌿🌻

Nice interview with Daniel Dennett - Favorite Books recommended by Daniel Dennett (interviewed by @nigelwarburton.bsky.social) fivebooks.com/best-books/d...