Urte Laukaityte
@laukas.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher: synthetic philosophy, the mind and life sciences, history of medicine, psychiatry
Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social;
Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social;
Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
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Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good news everyone: #Duke Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026. #neuroscience #philosophy #brain Please spread the word! ssnap.submittable.com/submit
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Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their environment. Computer scientists suggest artificial systems can at times draw better inferences than humans. For many philosophers, these ways of talking are nonsensical because only human reasoners can make inferences.
philosophyofbrains.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems By Urte Laukaityte and Matteo Colombo Psychologists speak of perceiving as inferring. Neuroscientists maintain that the brain solves inference problems. Biologists say that individual cells infer the structure of their…
Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Selections from an artist whose phantasmagoric works defined an era.
publicdomainreview.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Check out my guide to the visual universe of Aubrey Beardsley - the master of fin-de-siècle sensibility.
Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.
Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems | 9 | Neurocognitive Foundations
Cognitive scientists ascribe inferential processes to (neuro)cognitive systems to explain many of their capacities. Since these ascriptions have different
www.taylorfrancis.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.
Consider reading my new piece on the history and science of the nasogenital cure! Incidentally, that's not exactly what the theory was and not quite what the episode reveals. Bizarre tales sound rather less bizarre in context - possibly, our own tales in our own context, too.
One woman’s nose and two men’s hubris and a bizarre tale of 19th century science gone wrong. This nasogenital theory tried to link nasal shape to sexual health and reveals how medicine can be shaped more by bias than fact buff.ly/TwZjyJ6
June 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Consider reading my new piece on the history and science of the nasogenital cure! Incidentally, that's not exactly what the theory was and not quite what the episode reveals. Bizarre tales sound rather less bizarre in context - possibly, our own tales in our own context, too.
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On train home after Method & Convergence 2025. I got so much food for my work! Slide is from @laukas.bsky.social nice ”PR talk” on synthetic phil… 🔥
June 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
On train home after Method & Convergence 2025. I got so much food for my work! Slide is from @laukas.bsky.social nice ”PR talk” on synthetic phil… 🔥
Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould.
Died #onthisday in 1815, Franz Mesmer, controversial proponent of "animal magnetism". More in our essay "Mesmerising Science" on how a craze for animal magnetism sessions in 18th-century Paris led to the modern clinical trial we know + love today: buff.ly/3330fkd #otd
May 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Consider reading this funky piece of mine from 2018! Featuring cameos from Ben Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Stephen Jay Gould.
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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.
Conceptual: Honorable Mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)
monoawards.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A new project got a shout-out at the Monochrome Photography Awards 2024 - see the shot here.
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Thanks for a great 2024, friends!
We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were...
(in chronological order)
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We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were...
(in chronological order)
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December 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Thanks for a great 2024, friends!
We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were...
(in chronological order)
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We put out 21 new episodes this year (19 interviews, 2 essays). The top 5 were...
(in chronological order)
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My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
Slime Mould and Philosophy
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy
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December 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
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A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 PM
A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.
People: Portrait - honorable mention - Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)
ndawards.net
November 24, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Chuffed to be 'honourably mentioned' at the ND Photography Awards this year - in case anyone else might enjoy seeing the shot, here it is.
A (provocative) new chapter. If "cognition all the way down" holds up when things go right with capacities like perception, learning, memory, etc., it should also apply when things go awry. What could taking the idea of scale-free psychiatry seriously teach us about our own cognitive (dys)function?
Delusion and inference | 38 | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of
Delusions are commonly defined as beliefs based on incorrect inference. But the term ‘inference’ is used in different fields with a lot of variation, which has
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November 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
A (provocative) new chapter. If "cognition all the way down" holds up when things go right with capacities like perception, learning, memory, etc., it should also apply when things go awry. What could taking the idea of scale-free psychiatry seriously teach us about our own cognitive (dys)function?
From Borch-Jacobsen, M. (2021). Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Reaktion Books.
September 11, 2024 at 11:10 AM
From Borch-Jacobsen, M. (2021). Freud's Patients: A Book of Lives. Reaktion Books.
From Shorter, E. (1992). From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. The Free Press.
August 14, 2024 at 10:50 PM
From Shorter, E. (1992). From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. The Free Press.
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New episode!! 📣📣
An essay by our Assistant Producer, @laukas.bsky.social.
We often hear about placebo treatments as controls—points of comparison for "real" treatments. But placebos are much more than that. Is it time we harnessed their power?
Listen: disi.org/rehabilitati...
An essay by our Assistant Producer, @laukas.bsky.social.
We often hear about placebo treatments as controls—points of comparison for "real" treatments. But placebos are much more than that. Is it time we harnessed their power?
Listen: disi.org/rehabilitati...
Rehabilitating placebo - Many Minds podcast
Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.
disi.org
May 7, 2024 at 4:40 PM
New episode!! 📣📣
An essay by our Assistant Producer, @laukas.bsky.social.
We often hear about placebo treatments as controls—points of comparison for "real" treatments. But placebos are much more than that. Is it time we harnessed their power?
Listen: disi.org/rehabilitati...
An essay by our Assistant Producer, @laukas.bsky.social.
We often hear about placebo treatments as controls—points of comparison for "real" treatments. But placebos are much more than that. Is it time we harnessed their power?
Listen: disi.org/rehabilitati...
From Few, M. (2005). Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52(4), pp. 673–687.
February 26, 2024 at 10:11 AM
From Few, M. (2005). Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52(4), pp. 673–687.
From Carnwath, T., Smith, I. (2002). The Heroin Century. Routledge.
February 21, 2024 at 12:30 PM
From Carnwath, T., Smith, I. (2002). The Heroin Century. Routledge.
From Wuthnow, R. (2017). American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability. Princeton University Press.
November 9, 2023 at 11:39 AM
From Wuthnow, R. (2017). American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability. Princeton University Press.
From Weatherford, J. (2010). The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire. Crown Publishers.
November 5, 2023 at 6:17 PM
From Weatherford, J. (2010). The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire. Crown Publishers.
From Wilkins, B. S. (2002). The Spleen. British Journal of Haematology 117(2), pp. 265-274.
November 4, 2023 at 7:09 PM
From Wilkins, B. S. (2002). The Spleen. British Journal of Haematology 117(2), pp. 265-274.
From Park, S. K., Lee, E. J., Park, J. W. (2016). Visual History with Choson Dynasty Annals. Leonardo 49(4), pp. 334–341.
November 2, 2023 at 9:47 PM
From Park, S. K., Lee, E. J., Park, J. W. (2016). Visual History with Choson Dynasty Annals. Leonardo 49(4), pp. 334–341.
From Kotchemidova, C. (2005). From Good Cheer to “Drive-By Smiling”: A Social History of Cheerfulness. Journal of Social History 39(1), pp. 5-37.
November 2, 2023 at 9:29 PM
From Kotchemidova, C. (2005). From Good Cheer to “Drive-By Smiling”: A Social History of Cheerfulness. Journal of Social History 39(1), pp. 5-37.