Evan Thompson
Philosopher, writer.
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- Reposted by Evan ThompsonExcited to share my paper on an enactivist account of non-dual awareness, integrating ideas from constraint causality and Nāgārjuna’s notion of emptiness! Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness url: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
- Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness url: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
- Reposted by Evan Thompson𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Annual reminder that the book is open access. How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing. Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective? #neuroskyence mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
- Last night I dreamt I gave a very detailed and precise lecture about lucid dreaming. The dream was not lucid.
- I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded the Mind-Matter Prize by the Society for Mind-Matter Research. (See "news" at the top right). My prize-acceptance Lecture will be at the Society's Models of Consciousness Conference in Copenhagen, October 12-16, 2026. www.mindmatter.de/index.html
- Happy to announce this NEH Summer Institute at UC Berkeley, co-directed by @christiancoseru.bsky.social @alvanoe.bsky.social and yours truly @evanthompson.bsky.social www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~skneh/
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- Reposted by Evan Thompson🎉 Congratulations to @evanthompson.bsky.social and @kiransoma.bsky.social for being newly named Distinguished University Scholars, one of UBC’s highest honours for faculty excellence. 👏 @ubcphilosophy.bsky.social @psych.ubc.ca Discover more about their work and contributions ⬇️
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- Here's my review in Mind of Mazviita Chirimuuta's fantastic book The Brain Abstracted. @pessoabrain.bsky.social you'll be interested in this one! academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
- Précis of my book with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. Soon to be followed with a response to commentators. The Blind Spot rdcu.be/eQkzc
- @amandagefter.bsky.social writing in Nautilus about a meeting on intelligence in which I participated last year in Tuscany.
- Go glial cells! More and more evidence keeps pouring in that the cognitive brain is not just a neuronal network. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- The Third Entity: Participatory Sense-Making, Agency, and Attentional Dynamics osf.io/preprints/ps... New paper by @beckety.bsky.social and yours truly.
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- Death, Grief, and Radical Hope by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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- So much for the Indian philosophical trope "horns of a rabbit" (used to signify nonexistence). www.cbc.ca/news/science...
- Reposted by Evan Thompson🤔 How can we study #consciousness between people, at the social level? 🧠✨ New #preprint co-led by Anne Monnier & Lena Adel: “Now is the Time: Operationalizing Generative Neurophenomenology through Interpersonal Methods” 🧵(1/3)
- Reposted by Evan ThompsonAlgorithms don't play & animals only play when they feel safe. ❤️ Ep 65 with Julian Kiverstein (Amsterdam Medical) looks at how play relates to surprise, risk, & our capacity to handle uncertainty. New insights on Active Inference & the role of The Embodied Mind #EmbodiedMInd #play #loveandphilosophy
- Reposted by Evan ThompsonIn this episode Julian credits @evanthompson.bsky.social and The Embodied Mind as his primary inspiration
- Very nice to see something intelligent about AI and about putting it to a good use for a change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlL...
- New episode with yours truly and @adamfrank4.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCO-...
- Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) www.noemamag.com/why-science-... by @adamfrank4.bsky.social
- The cultural construction of “executive function” | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- A review of The Blind Spot that appeared in Die Furche in April. www.furche.at/wissen/the-b...
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- Episode 5 of The Blind Spot Podcast with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. Part II of our reflections on modern cosmology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5m...
- "the neuroscientist has embraced the habit of treating neurons as cognitive agents, attributing to them capacities we would normally only attribute to persons." Information in the Brain: From Metaphor to Truth - Zahnoun - Theoria - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Evan ThompsonFabulous discussion with Dr. Kate Nave - wide-ranging, nuanced, clear, smart thinking about agency, purpose, life, cybernetics, the FEP, process philosophy and lots more! open.spotify.com/episode/4PKy...
- If you think the brain should be defined as a massive neural network, think again. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- In memory of Nancy Jack Todd by @beckety.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/oceanark...
- 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...
- 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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- Reposted by Evan ThompsonReally 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...
