Proud of this review with @AlisonGopnik ! - 'The development of human causal learning and reasoning' - now available here: @NatRevPsych We review the development of human-unique causal understanding from an 'interventionist' perspective, outlining

@David_Gunkel @mitpress @rgblong @jeffrsebo @birchlse Which chapter would directly answer the questions I asked you above?

@David_Gunkel @mitpress @rgblong @jeffrsebo @birchlse Interesting. If not psychological/ontological, which properties pick out the entities that can participate in morally relevant "relations"? (On your view, is the toaster I used to make breakfast today an entity with moral status? If not, what kind of machine does qualify, & why?)

@David_Gunkel @mitpress @rgblong @jeffrsebo @birchlse Ok... but then you arrive at the conclusion that machines are moral patients? What's your argument? (I took your original post to express support for recent claims regarding "AI Welfare" and concern for machines as "marginalized others")

@David_Gunkel @mitpress @rgblong @jeffrsebo @birchlse Organisms ≠ machines

RT @gongcastro: This, from @marielgoddu, @alvanoe and @evantthompson's "LLMs don’t know anything: reply to Yildirim and Paul". https://t.co…

RT @ricard_sole: Is evolution predictable or highly contingent? This new @RSocPublishing paper explains why life here & elsewhere might be…

@johnywrites Not at all what I was expecting, but that’s a fun lead! Thanks

@johnywrites Hm I was hoping for an analysis of “learning” in terms of “self-organization”

RT @reziliusReza: 150 years ago, here is what a letter to Nature looked like: I have a squirrel. It cleans itself, then sneezes voluntaril…

Love this new piece from @alvanoe - it’s “about” AI, but it’s really about human life and action: “We can never factor out mere doing, skilfulness, habit… from the ways these doings… are made new, transformed, through our very acts of doing them.”

RT @DebiecJacek: Science: "#Microplastics are pervasive in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. They have been dete…

RT @lucas__crespo: the past echoes into the future

Epic line from commune's Residential Guidelines (p. 28): "please leave common spaces, including others' consciousness, as good or better than you found them"

Can't fully explain it but I think this photo should be the cover art on the next reprint of G.E.M. Anscombe's Intention

It also includes this gem

Anthropomorphising Machines and Computerising Minds: The Crosswiring of Languages between Artificial Intelligence and Brain & Cognitive Sciences @Floridi Short, lucid paper re: "conceptual borrowing" between AI & BCS. Summary tables of borrowed terms:

Analytic philosophers in 1999: The "explanatory gap" for life is "closed"