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In memory of Nancy Jack Todd by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...

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Episode 4 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. This time we're talking about cosmology. open.spotify.com/episode/45sm...

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My mother-in-law, the inestimable Nancy Jack Todd, has left us. Here's a piece about her by her daughter and my partner, @beckety.bsky.social substack.com/@beckettodd/...

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Just a reminder that @evanthompson.bsky.social Marcelo Gleiser and I have started a podcast called The Blind Spot (its about science, philosophy and beyond). Here is a link to the latest episode which is Part II of our discussion of Time open.spotify.com/episode/3KYp...

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Really excited to read the reprint of Varela’s Biological Autonomy annotated by @evanthompson.bsky.social. I really want to offer a special topics course focusing on it in an upcoming semester.

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Yesterday's book launch discussion for our new edition of Francisco Varela's Principles of BIological Autonomy published by @mitpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdN...

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The Entangled Brain by @pessoabrain.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...

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"Information is a manner of speaking, nothing more." www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27...

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The Blind Spot, by @adamfrank4.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser and Evan Thompson featured at the MIT Press blog mitpress.mit.edu/the-best-rea...

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'Classics with Pelagia' is here! The first piece on Huxley & Aristotle is open to everyone. If you like it pls click "free to join" then upgrade to paid membership (5$ a month) to read monthly pieces. In June my thoughts on K. Hamsun's Pan are coming. Link in the comments!😊

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Dear friends, Pelagia is back with a website! This time as a philosophical counselor. If you need me I am here. www.lradenovic.com

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And here is Episode 3 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser. We'll be working on adding guests soon. Stay tuned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEl1...

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Looking forward to this event in Trondheim, coming up in early June.

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New paper, "Enaction as the bringing forth of worlds," by yours truly. Behind a paywall but email me if you'd like a copy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New this week from the MIT Press 📚👇

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This should be fun.

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Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

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Episode 2 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGa...

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@beckety.bsky.social in dialogue with Yuri Celidwen and Gregoire Lamoureux: Participatory Sensemaking with the More than Human World open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

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And in other news... @evanthompson.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser and I have started a podcast! The Blind Spot. Science, philosophy and more but not the usual reductionist, triumphalist view. New ways of understanding the Universe with us in it. Episode 1 here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXXO...

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Join us in Montreal this Fall at this fantastic workshop ! Will be having a public conversation with @evanthompson.bsky.social and Chris Fields as a part of the social events 😎 Thank you for having me 🙏 iwaiworkshop.github.io

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New Love and Philosophy podcast from @lovephilosophy.substack.com with me, aerial dancer/philosopher Shay Welch & "frequency barista" penijean gracefire on complexity fatigue & the "third entity" - the interactive process that takes on a life of its own lovephilosophy.substack.com/p/complexity...

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@lovephilosophy.substack.com hosts @beckety.bsky.social Shay Welch and Penijean Gracefire in a rich discussion of participatory sense-making: Complexity Fatigue & the Third Entity with Beck, Shay and Penijean open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...

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The difference between #AI errors and confabulation in humans is that in producing false or misleading information, the LLM is functioning precisely as intended. Nothing has gone wrong because nothing in the mechanism regulates alignment with the truth. We might as well say #LLMs always confabulate…

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Here is our new podcast, The Blind Spot, with yours truly, @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser at Spotify. open.spotify.com/show/5RWMnV4...

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Here's the first episode of our new podcast, The Blind Spot, featuring yours truly with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. We're starting out with some topics from our book but we'll move on from those soon, and we plan to invite guests for future episodes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vT...

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A profile of John Todd, my amazing father-in-law. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Holding in Personhood by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

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Here's a fun and free-wheeling conversation I had with Freddy Drabble for his Chasing Consciousness podcast: www.chasingconsciousness.net/episode-69-e...

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In paperback on April 1, 2025. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204880...

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Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - very excited to have this article out! 😊 With Henry Potter and George Ellis.

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Fantastic paper cuts to heart of new understanding in "physics of life" about importance of organization in organisms. Organization in this sense is a different kind of idea for physics. arxiv.org/abs/2503.03950 @ricardsole.bsky.social @evanthompson.bsky.social @saraimari.bsky.social

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My review of @srdfrench.bsky.social's "A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics" has appeared. It's open access, so feel free to check it out. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social (2024) –– "LLMs Don't Know Anything" philpapers.org/archive/GODL...

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This should be fun. www.oist.jp/conference/e...

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"One of the central themes in theories of participatory sensemaking is communicating across difference. And there is a lot of difference. From the level of the senses on up. More, even, than we tend to think there is." by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

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Applications are now open. I'm on the faculty this year along with many others. mindandlife-europe.org/events/esri-...

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foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/25/c...

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And not one of the polite ones. We’ve written a response to @nytimes.com’s Peter Baker and every other American who is taking the annexation of Canada as a fun thought experiment. Here in @foreignpolicy.com with my daughter @alicesouthey.com. Gift link.

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