Ebben
@ebben.bsky.social
Long time student of the mind sciences.
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"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Here's a talk that's quite different from ones I've given before, although it has connections to everything I often talk about, presented at #alife2025:
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Meet a new synthetic colleague: robot science as a translation tool between diverse intelligences
A video, and downloadable slides, of a presentation I gave on robot science and Xenobots at the 2025 Artificial Life meeting.
thoughtforms.life
October 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Here's a talk that's quite different from ones I've given before, although it has connections to everything I often talk about, presented at #alife2025:
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
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(link fixed) New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain
It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
(link fixed) New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain
It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
I'm going to try a new way to share longer form content using Leaflet, a Bluesky compatible app.
This article is about consciousness and anesthesia. But I want to highlight some points from the article about new ways to think how the brain works.
leaflet.pub/1cf1c454-de6...
This article is about consciousness and anesthesia. But I want to highlight some points from the article about new ways to think how the brain works.
leaflet.pub/1cf1c454-de6...
New ways of thinking how the brain works
This article is about consciousness and anesthesia. But here I excerpt some points from the article talking about new ways to think about how the brain works.
leaflet.pub
August 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm going to try a new way to share longer form content using Leaflet, a Bluesky compatible app.
This article is about consciousness and anesthesia. But I want to highlight some points from the article about new ways to think how the brain works.
leaflet.pub/1cf1c454-de6...
This article is about consciousness and anesthesia. But I want to highlight some points from the article about new ways to think how the brain works.
leaflet.pub/1cf1c454-de6...
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Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
A universal marker of unconsciousness could transform both medicine and our understanding of the mind.
bigthink.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Inside the search for a universal signature of unconsciousness
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
bigthink.com/neuropsych/u...
"Neuroscientists like Earl K. Miller argue that the brain’s coordinated waves do the real work"
#neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social @mitbcs.bsky.social
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Consciousness Emerges From Neural Dynamics.
My talk at The Science of Consciousness Meeting. July 9, 2025
(forgive the tech glitch at the beginning).
youtu.be/y8zhpsvjnAI?...
#neuroscience
My talk at The Science of Consciousness Meeting. July 9, 2025
(forgive the tech glitch at the beginning).
youtu.be/y8zhpsvjnAI?...
#neuroscience
TSC 2025 - Barcelona - Plenary 9 - Brain Oscillations, Waves and Attention
YouTube video by TSC - The Science of Consciousness Conferences
youtu.be
August 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Consciousness Emerges From Neural Dynamics.
My talk at The Science of Consciousness Meeting. July 9, 2025
(forgive the tech glitch at the beginning).
youtu.be/y8zhpsvjnAI?...
#neuroscience
My talk at The Science of Consciousness Meeting. July 9, 2025
(forgive the tech glitch at the beginning).
youtu.be/y8zhpsvjnAI?...
#neuroscience
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If you're curious, I've shared my prepared notes on my newly-created blog called "The Centre of Attention". My hope is that if I can help the public improve their attention and focus it on the right things, then we can collectively place attention on solving the issues that are facing our society.
Is this the crisis point for attention spans?
My prepared comments for a public talk titled "Attention! Are we losing it?" for Raising the Bar Adelaide 2025.
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you're curious, I've shared my prepared notes on my newly-created blog called "The Centre of Attention". My hope is that if I can help the public improve their attention and focus it on the right things, then we can collectively place attention on solving the issues that are facing our society.
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Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues.
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
🧵:
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
🧵:
July 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues.
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
🧵:
We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!
🧵:
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Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
Repost if you agree.
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"It’s a bit like complaining that different neighborhoods have different vibes."
Yes, but Bluesky need not be a single neighborhood.
It inherited Twitter's fundamental flaw.
Figuring out how to add "Communities" to Bluesky should be #1 priority.
Imagine if Reddit never added subreddits!
Yes, but Bluesky need not be a single neighborhood.
It inherited Twitter's fundamental flaw.
Figuring out how to add "Communities" to Bluesky should be #1 priority.
Imagine if Reddit never added subreddits!
Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…
Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the curious case of Bluesky, which, according to various pundits, is a failed "liberal echo chamber" that nobody uses anymore.
www.techdirt.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"It’s a bit like complaining that different neighborhoods have different vibes."
Yes, but Bluesky need not be a single neighborhood.
It inherited Twitter's fundamental flaw.
Figuring out how to add "Communities" to Bluesky should be #1 priority.
Imagine if Reddit never added subreddits!
Yes, but Bluesky need not be a single neighborhood.
It inherited Twitter's fundamental flaw.
Figuring out how to add "Communities" to Bluesky should be #1 priority.
Imagine if Reddit never added subreddits!
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This is a very good paper on how methodologies from comparative cognition can help improve AI evaluation:
openreview.net/pdf?id=gCPJF...
Other papers along the same lines:
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openreview.net/pdf?id=gCPJF...
Other papers along the same lines:
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openreview.net
June 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is a very good paper on how methodologies from comparative cognition can help improve AI evaluation:
openreview.net/pdf?id=gCPJF...
Other papers along the same lines:
⬇️
openreview.net/pdf?id=gCPJF...
Other papers along the same lines:
⬇️
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We should declare a moratorium on AI discourse and let everyone take a week to read the Phaedrus. Otherwise we'll just rewrite the whole thing piecemeal 100,000 times.
June 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
We should declare a moratorium on AI discourse and let everyone take a week to read the Phaedrus. Otherwise we'll just rewrite the whole thing piecemeal 100,000 times.
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my latest, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
this review lays out what I think the fundamental specializations are for music perception in humans, namely, the hierarchical processing of pitch and rhythm
or, how our minds turn vibrating air into music
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG9G_V1r-...
this review lays out what I think the fundamental specializations are for music perception in humans, namely, the hierarchical processing of pitch and rhythm
or, how our minds turn vibrating air into music
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG9G_V1r-...
June 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
my latest, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
this review lays out what I think the fundamental specializations are for music perception in humans, namely, the hierarchical processing of pitch and rhythm
or, how our minds turn vibrating air into music
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG9G_V1r-...
this review lays out what I think the fundamental specializations are for music perception in humans, namely, the hierarchical processing of pitch and rhythm
or, how our minds turn vibrating air into music
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG9G_V1r-...
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Time-domain brain: temporal mechanisms for brain functions using time-delay nets, holographic processes, radio communications, and emergent oscillatory sequences
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
#neuroscience
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
#neuroscience
Frontiers | Time-domain brain: temporal mechanisms for brain functions using time-delay nets, holographic processes, radio communications, and emergent oscillatory sequences
www.frontiersin.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Time-domain brain: temporal mechanisms for brain functions using time-delay nets, holographic processes, radio communications, and emergent oscillatory sequences
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
#neuroscience
www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
#neuroscience
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?
As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.
As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.
April 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?
As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.
As argued by John Krakauer et al. most of the time we use "filler" verbs, promissory notes that we hope to "fill with substance" at some later time.
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Alibaba has launched Qwen2.5-Omni, the latest end-to-end multimodal model in the Qwen series. Qwen2.5-Omni now supports voice and video chat! Everything is unified; one model understands text, visual, and audio inputs, and outputs text and audio!🧵1/7
March 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Alibaba has launched Qwen2.5-Omni, the latest end-to-end multimodal model in the Qwen series. Qwen2.5-Omni now supports voice and video chat! Everything is unified; one model understands text, visual, and audio inputs, and outputs text and audio!🧵1/7
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This is intriguing on RL, generalization, and CoT. If I'm attributing correctly, it's from Shannon Sands (@max_paperclips) of Nous Research. Basically there seem to be generalizable vectors for reasoning operations. Like the "Wait, wait" so characteristic of R1 == "impasse: back up a step." +
January 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This is intriguing on RL, generalization, and CoT. If I'm attributing correctly, it's from Shannon Sands (@max_paperclips) of Nous Research. Basically there seem to be generalizable vectors for reasoning operations. Like the "Wait, wait" so characteristic of R1 == "impasse: back up a step." +
Just out, great philosophical research talk on the intersection of cognitive science and AI by @raphaelmilliere.com
Via @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MC...
Via @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MC...
Raphael Milliere: "Desiderata for Artificial Cognitive Science"
YouTube video by cccm_seminar
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Just out, great philosophical research talk on the intersection of cognitive science and AI by @raphaelmilliere.com
Via @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MC...
Via @UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3MC...
Melanie Mitchell is a good general speaker about AI. Two main points I got from the talk: 1. Intelligence covers a wide range of abilities, and 2. Trustworthiness is fundamental property to judge any sort of intelligence.
I enjoyed talking with @heyira.bsky.social on @scifri.bsky.social about "AGI" (and its different meanings).
Listen here:
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wha...
Listen here:
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wha...
‘Artificial General Intelligence’ Is Apparently Coming. What Is It?
For years, AI companies have said that AGI is coming soon. But what does the term mean, and what is the science behind it?
www.sciencefriday.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Melanie Mitchell is a good general speaker about AI. Two main points I got from the talk: 1. Intelligence covers a wide range of abilities, and 2. Trustworthiness is fundamental property to judge any sort of intelligence.
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A New Year's rant, for 2025 😊:
January 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A New Year's rant, for 2025 😊:
This is troubling. Good article explaining what this means.
Google’s Policy Change Towards [web browser] Fingerprinting
blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Google’s Policy Change Towards [web browser] Fingerprinting
blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s O...
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is troubling. Good article explaining what this means.
Google’s Policy Change Towards [web browser] Fingerprinting
blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Google’s Policy Change Towards [web browser] Fingerprinting
blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Going from the "attention" economy to the "intention" economy.
www.courthousenews.com/ai-might-sta...
www.courthousenews.com/ai-might-sta...
AI might start selling your choices before you make them, study warns
Plenty have shared concerns about artificial intelligence coming for our jobs, but what about our decisions?
www.courthousenews.com
January 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Going from the "attention" economy to the "intention" economy.
www.courthousenews.com/ai-might-sta...
www.courthousenews.com/ai-might-sta...