axel cleeremans
@axc.bsky.social
Brain, minds, & consciousness. Also interested in design, visual arts, biology, space, typography, and anticipation. Also known as « Axel from Belgium »
Discovering that slimy lego is a thing in the 4 years old community
July 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Discovering that slimy lego is a thing in the 4 years old community
With a relieved @ademertzi.bsky.social and her live olive tree on the way back from the incredibly successful #ASSC28 🙏
July 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
With a relieved @ademertzi.bsky.social and her live olive tree on the way back from the incredibly successful #ASSC28 🙏
Wow not one, but two instances of @liadmudrik.bsky.social in the scientific committee of #ASSC29 - we better be outstanding !
July 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Wow not one, but two instances of @liadmudrik.bsky.social in the scientific committee of #ASSC29 - we better be outstanding !
“Aaay was doing consciousness science way before any of you young people”
July 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“Aaay was doing consciousness science way before any of you young people”
Great post #ASSC28 INTREPID workshop featuring in-depth meta science discussions of the state of affairs in consciousness science and of the value of adversarial collaborations
July 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Great post #ASSC28 INTREPID workshop featuring in-depth meta science discussions of the state of affairs in consciousness science and of the value of adversarial collaborations
@krysdolega.bsky.social advertising his pirate poster on the A/P distinction at #ASSC28, so echoing my own pirate talk at ASSC Paris 😃
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@krysdolega.bsky.social advertising his pirate poster on the A/P distinction at #ASSC28, so echoing my own pirate talk at ASSC Paris 😃
That’s my theory of consciousness, more or less
March 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
That’s my theory of consciousness, more or less
I am going to Lund to speak at the Natural and Artificial Cognition workshop (www.ai.lu.se/evenemang/na...) and it's all looking great but I am really curious to find out what the "SWEDISH GOVERNMENT BREAKFASTt" consists of.
October 21, 2024 at 8:08 AM
I am going to Lund to speak at the Natural and Artificial Cognition workshop (www.ai.lu.se/evenemang/na...) and it's all looking great but I am really curious to find out what the "SWEDISH GOVERNMENT BREAKFASTt" consists of.
Sigmar Polke, 1968
September 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Sigmar Polke, 1968
Cleaning up my office a bit I stumbled upon extensive correspondence between undergraduate me and Donald Broadbent, the great British psychologist, who was, in 1986, interested in implicit learning. These interactions pretty much shaped the rest of my career.
August 27, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Cleaning up my office a bit I stumbled upon extensive correspondence between undergraduate me and Donald Broadbent, the great British psychologist, who was, in 1986, interested in implicit learning. These interactions pretty much shaped the rest of my career.
In 1986, my (deceased) father created this 50x70cm composition about the work I was carrying out at Carnegie Mellon, where I was studying recurrent networks, including the “Jordan sequential network” featured here. I didn’t know about this until I stumbled upon the piece cleaning up his workshop.
January 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
In 1986, my (deceased) father created this 50x70cm composition about the work I was carrying out at Carnegie Mellon, where I was studying recurrent networks, including the “Jordan sequential network” featured here. I didn’t know about this until I stumbled upon the piece cleaning up his workshop.
In a copy of the little red book owned by my father 📕:
December 29, 2023 at 9:46 AM
In a copy of the little red book owned by my father 📕:
Now out: “A construct-first approach to consciousness science”, with Peter Fazekas & Morten Overgaard
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 10, 2023 at 7:12 AM
Now out: “A construct-first approach to consciousness science”, with Peter Fazekas & Morten Overgaard
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Where have you been?”, 2023 (decaying artichokes, picknick table, iPhone)
October 8, 2023 at 4:57 PM
“Where have you been?”, 2023 (decaying artichokes, picknick table, iPhone)
I spent the afternoon in Charleroi (aka “Brussels South”) and have seen many more strange people in 30m than in a whole year - all with incredible kindness and warmth.
October 8, 2023 at 4:39 PM
I spent the afternoon in Charleroi (aka “Brussels South”) and have seen many more strange people in 30m than in a whole year - all with incredible kindness and warmth.
Just a week ago my Ph.D. advisor, A.I. pioneer & friend Jay McClelland came to visit us in Brussels (thx again Nath Carl & FARI) and I had this terrific lunch with him and @krysdolega.bsky.social — three generations of cognitive scientists in a radiant snapshot!
October 1, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Just a week ago my Ph.D. advisor, A.I. pioneer & friend Jay McClelland came to visit us in Brussels (thx again Nath Carl & FARI) and I had this terrific lunch with him and @krysdolega.bsky.social — three generations of cognitive scientists in a radiant snapshot!
Wondering why we are conscious? Come help us attack the Hard Problem empirically by joining our ERC-funded EXPERIENCE team. We are looking for a nerdy postdoc who knows fMRI / RSA and for a highly motivated Ph.D student
Post-doc 🧠 erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/p...
Ph.D. ⚡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/p...
Post-doc 🧠 erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/p...
Ph.D. ⚡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/p...
September 30, 2023 at 2:12 PM
Wondering why we are conscious? Come help us attack the Hard Problem empirically by joining our ERC-funded EXPERIENCE team. We are looking for a nerdy postdoc who knows fMRI / RSA and for a highly motivated Ph.D student
Post-doc 🧠 erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/p...
Ph.D. ⚡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/p...
Post-doc 🧠 erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/p...
Ph.D. ⚡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/p...
In 2010 Laurent Waroquier, David Marchiori, @olivier_klein and I completely debunked this experiment about unconscious thought so seeing it featured in a popsci book 13y later is rather 😒
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 27, 2023 at 10:39 AM
In 2010 Laurent Waroquier, David Marchiori, @olivier_klein and I completely debunked this experiment about unconscious thought so seeing it featured in a popsci book 13y later is rather 😒
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Tomasio Poggio at #IIT20Y (the 20th anniversary of the Italian Institute of Technology:
“The problem of intelligence is the greatest problem in science and learning is at the very core of intelligence”
“The problem of intelligence is the greatest problem in science and learning is at the very core of intelligence”
September 21, 2023 at 3:05 PM
Tomasio Poggio at #IIT20Y (the 20th anniversary of the Italian Institute of Technology:
“The problem of intelligence is the greatest problem in science and learning is at the very core of intelligence”
“The problem of intelligence is the greatest problem in science and learning is at the very core of intelligence”
Was the intent here to do the typography this way, or was it limited by neon tech? That is, would that E be full had it been done with LEDs?
September 20, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Was the intent here to do the typography this way, or was it limited by neon tech? That is, would that E be full had it been done with LEDs?