° Leverhulme Trust research fellow at EdinburghUni
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
Kate Nave
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It's rare that a newspaper says this out loud.
i laughed so much at this goddammit
This is an excellent perspective, opens new doors to study consciousness empirically.
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I suspect it's not widely known that (or how much) genetic variation that would otherwise be deleterious is "hidden" by buffering. Much of that is accomplished by a protein called Hsp90. I've written a feature for Nature about it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ted Chiang confirmed fictionalist about AI speech www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
You can still submit an abstract for Models of Consciousness 7 #MoC7 (12-16 October 2026) 👇
Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.
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Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this ‘buffering’ works — and how to exploit it.
RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530
An updated version of my
"Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings"
is available:
https://zenodo.org/records/20647108
It includes the revisions that were requested during peer-review.
Wimsatt is the most important philosopher of science […]
The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human-like linguistic and ...
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Apply until June 16th for a talk or poster:
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Trump vs. Harvard has faded to the background. This summer, it’s Harvard vs. Harvard — still a point for Trump’s score card, said Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College.
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Yogi Jaeger
We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart:
"Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings"
https://zenodo.org/records/18293424
Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt […]
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Yogi Jaeger
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Timescapes of Animal Experience: new paper in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, led by @singhal.bsky.social, w/ @birchlse.bsky.social and me. Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nHo74sIRv...
