Our Podcast has a new season and a new name!
"Life, The Universe and All the Rest"
First guest of the new season: Michael Pollan
Most people listen on Spotify etc
open.spotify.com/show/5RWMnV4...
YouTube is also possible
youtube.com/@LUAR-Podcast
It's our pleasure to have @evanthompson.bsky.social as a keynote speaker for #MoC7 at the University of Copenhagen!
Evan is a renowned philosopher and phenomenologist and his talk will explore the intersections of philosophy and neuroscience, promising to inspire crucial methodological discussions.
Evan Thompson
What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cover design for my new book, forthcoming with Columbia University Press in spring 2027. (Apparition by Odilon Redon, c. 1905.)
I'm happy to announce that I've been elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. royalacademy.dk/videnskabern...
Turkish readers, there's now a Turkish edition of The Blind Spot.
Indeed, neuroscientists must stop using analytic philosophers to understand the brain!
"It treats the brain as if it is an analytical philosopher, a machine evaluating logical propositions. But this is a faulty anthropomorphic projection, conflating the tools that scientists use to study nature with nature itself."
This is a marvellous book that I wish I had known about when I was writing The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Science and religion have long been thought incompatible. But nowhere has this apparent contradiction been more fully resolved than in the figure of A. S. Eddington (1882–1944), a pioneer in astrophys...
"It treats the brain as if it is an analytical philosopher, a machine evaluating logical propositions. But this is a faulty anthropomorphic projection, conflating the tools that scientists use to study nature with nature itself."
Evan Thompson
How to breathe life back into brain theory www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to breathe life back into brain theory www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Evan Thompson
Evan Thompson
Neuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer.
