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Roly Perera

@dynamicaspects.org

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Making software more open, explorable and self-explanatory https://dynamicaspects.org/research Also: subjectivity, agency, active inference, niche construction, enactivism @plrg-bristol.bsky.social @iccscambridge.bsky.social @f.luid.org

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 2d

Reposting — looks like organisers uploaded a new video with better audio and different timings. Authoring Tools for Transparent Climate Reporting, presented at
@propl.dev 2025: youtu.be/IIRJeleXeuU?...
@iccscambridge.bsky.social

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 13th)

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 2d

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 13th)

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 3d

Anyone from @plrg-bristol.bsky.social at ICFP/SPLASH?

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Programming for the Planet @propl.dev · 3d

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 12th)

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 3d

No durians

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 6d

Wow. Looking forward!

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Dominic Orchard @dorchard.bsky.social · 6d

PROPL '25: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet. Now online: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
Looking forward to the workshop next week @icfp-conference.bsky.social/SPLASH

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet | ACM Conferences

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 6d

Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables, presented at LIVE 2025. Joint work with Joe Bond, Cristina David, @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social and Alfonso Piscitelli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gds8...

LIVE 2025 - Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 7d

But evolution has already demonstrated it. It built a conscious machine without relying on any resources (other than a lot of time) that an engineer wouldn't also have access to.

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 7d

Consciousness isn't something special happening *to* us, it's something special that we can *do*, and so any account has to be functional in nature and any role for the "substrate" can only be in delivering functionality. Difficult to make progress without agreeing on the explandum first.

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 7d

The problem is that these stories are all a bit mysterian about consciousness itself, i.e. as an explanatory target it is itself mysterious and so it remains an open question whether there is some (correspondingly mysterious) role for biological "substrates" to play.

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 7d

Evolving a machine (meat or otherwise) is just a one way of engineering one, so conscious organisms provide an existence proof that consciousness can be engineered.

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 8d

“Biological realisers” are also computational mechanisms, though, so not sure I understand your premise.

And a conscious machine is “just” a machine that thinks it's conscious -- perhaps not something easy to engineer but certainly not a notion that depends on any particular substrate.

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 10d

Realising that “as Immanuel Kant would say” is quite triggering for me

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 11d

Super-excited for *two* ALIFE workshops on goal-directed behaviour tomorrow: 2025.alife.org/program#WORK... and 2025.alife.org/program#WORK...

ALife 2025 Program

Experience the full ALife 2025 Program: Special Sessions, Workshops, Tutorials, Art & Demos, an Industry Expo and more.

2025.alife.org

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 11d

The bits i managed to catch of LIVE 2025 were great - an impressive and subversive set of submissions! Looking forward to more LIVE (recorded earlier) antics next year 🌟🌟

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Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com · 12d

Less than 24 hours till the LIVE 2025 Q & A / Discussion session!

Watch the presentations: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Join us to chat about them: links at liveprog.org

Hope to see ya there!

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · 29d

Companion (Workshop) Proceedings for ‹Programming› 2025 are now available! Co-edited with @jonathoda.bsky.social and @tomasp.net. Thanks to the awesome OASIcs publishing team for getting this over the line.
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/vol...

Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming 2025)

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Sep 13

pseudonymous double-barrelled dipshit

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Sep 3

Excited for three Fluid presentations coming up:

Fluid: Towards Transparent, Explorable Research Outputs
rsecon25.society-rse.org

Language-Based Dependency Tracking for Explorables
liveprog.org

Authoring Tools for Transparent Climate Reporting
conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)

The 11th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2025) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.

liveprog.org

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Aug 29

A person is vastly more capable in this regard -- almost every kind of behavioural “prompt” will reveal rich, broadly consistent information about a subjective life.

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Aug 29

There's no reason at all for thinking Gemini or similar systems have a self-model. We can prompt them to generate plausible-sounding claims about being conscious, but we can also prompt them to spout gibberish, or to deny that an AI could ever be conscious.

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Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Aug 29

Then as far as you are concerned (you being the subject matter of the self-model), it is information about *your* first-personal vantage point — how things look to you. I think of it as the body schema enriched to a full agent-in-the-world schema.

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Aug 29

Ok, nice. It's not enough just to have access to perspectival information about appearances. You also need a self-model that takes that information about a first-personal vantage point and interprets it as yours.

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Aug 26

(And if you have the patience to sit through a 20-min video, I have a talk on this very topic here: youtu.be/WtWfmBujxxU?...)

Roly Perera @dynamicaspects.org · Aug 26

6/ In fact it's other way around: the images are the content of self-interpretative acts by which the agent comes to a rich appreciation of itself *as* an agent with a perceptual vantage point.