Cool events ahead!

Bought a blue tomato (tomate azul) with high expectations of experiencing (somehow inverted or at least counterintuitive) qualia, only to find it was just a language game.

You see this, post a concert pic you took

Workshop (En)Active Minds was amazing! We had a good time of discussions, drinks, and Portuguese food. :)
Thank you @tobiasschlicht.bsky.social for accepting our invitation, and the others for coming to Porto! We'll see each other again soon.

Our very special call for abstracts for the (En)Active Minds and AI Workshop 🫴🪼⚙️ is now open!
We'll explore themes from the work of
@tobiasschlicht.bsky.social.
Submit by Aug 20, decision letters will be sent within 3 days!
Join us Sept 5 in Porto! ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/w...

Tenho o prazer de anunciar nosso Curso de inverno da FFLCH-USP 2025:

Teorias Contemporâneas da Consciência 🧠🗣✨

O curso é introdutório, online e gratuito. Ocorrerá entre os dias 12/08 e 04/09.

O período de inscrição é do dia 30/07 ao dia 31/07!
Mais informações aqui: sce.fflch.usp.br/node/6277

How to think about the mind starting from biology? Our workshop with Eva Jablonka, Denis Walsh, Carl Craver and Hugh Desmond was incredible. I am honored and pleased to exchange ideas with brilliant minds now from the Biology field.

I'm happy with the feedback on my poster at the Computational Psychiatry Conf. I felt that people enjoyed having someone looking at the broader implications of predictive models. I also felt that I made scientists critically think about their work today so my job is done.

Workshop MIND AND COGNITION
Uni. Porto
22 July 2025 | 10h-18h30 WEST

Speakers:
Denis Walsh (Toronto Uni.)
Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv Uni.),
Carl Craver (Washington Uni.)
Hugh Desmond (Wageningen Uni.)

Zoom:
ID Meeting: 951 4581 2521
Passcode: 153248
More info: ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/w...

The illusionists
@keithfrankish.bsky.social

Muito feliz de compartilhar o lançamento deste belíssimo livro, organizado por Anderson e Luiz Paulo. Também fico feliz de ter contribuído com um capítulo, em co-autoria com Daniel Friedman. O livro é gratuito e está aqui: www.editorafi.org/ebook/c128-c...

Every time I need to explain my research ideas or active inference to someone, I feel like doing this:

Yesterday, I tried to argue that although I agree with a deletion or deflation of the term "attention", we need to first address what underlies the epistemological problems of this concept, otherwise we will keep talking past each other.

Chamada IMPERDÍVEL da revista Perspectiva Filosófica sobre #filosofia das #ciênciascognitivas. Dentre os temas alvo, temos #cérebrobayesiano, #processamentopreditivo!
If you want to publish FOR FREE about #philosophy of #cognitivesciences, check out: periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/ind...

Yesterday was awesome! My presentation had positive feedback, I had great talks with professors about research and academic life, and I had the chance to meet one of the most important Brazilian philosophers alive: João Teixeira.

Time to return to my PhD research topics! Starting with this lovely event, in which I'll talk about selective attention (and probably its relation to perception and consciousness).

The first time I organized an event and it was highly successful! Scientists and philosophers presented their work and debated together with students how we can advance interdisciplinary debates and works on cognition and mind. Had a great time these last couple of days.