Michael David Kirchhoff
@kirchhoffmd.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Current research: The function and implication of using idealized methods to model the mind/brain in computational neurosience. Ongoing: FEP, 4E, metaphysical musings
Current research: The function and implication of using idealized methods to model the mind/brain in computational neurosience. Ongoing: FEP, 4E, metaphysical musings
Thanks for sharing 😌
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanks for sharing 😌
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Second: Michael D. Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social explores the relationship between mental fictionalism and successful idealizations in the sciences: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
Idealization and mental fictionalism
Cognitive scientists speak of codes, signals, encoding, decoding, computation, representation, and information-processing. The orthodox view is to take talk of neuronal signaling and computational ...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Second: Michael D. Kirchhoff @kirchhoffmd.bsky.social explores the relationship between mental fictionalism and successful idealizations in the sciences: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
Reposted by Michael David Kirchhoff
🏆 Best Paper — Predictive Coding or Just Feature Discovery? An Alternative Account of Why Language Models Fit Brain Data: doi.org/10.1162/nol_...
Richard Antonello and @alexanderhuth.bsky.social
Richard Antonello and @alexanderhuth.bsky.social
Predictive Coding or Just Feature Discovery? An Alternative Account of Why Language Models Fit Brain Data
Abstract. Many recent studies have shown that representations drawn from neural network language models are extremely effective at predicting brain responses to natural language. But why do these…
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September 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🏆 Best Paper — Predictive Coding or Just Feature Discovery? An Alternative Account of Why Language Models Fit Brain Data: doi.org/10.1162/nol_...
Richard Antonello and @alexanderhuth.bsky.social
Richard Antonello and @alexanderhuth.bsky.social
New arguments are provided for thinking that models of mental or neural representation and models of neural computation are in fact idealized models. These models, of which there are many, may be useful but they aren't true
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New arguments are provided for thinking that models of mental or neural representation and models of neural computation are in fact idealized models. These models, of which there are many, may be useful but they aren't true
In The Idealized Brain, special attention is paid to the use of mathematical idealization in neural coding models and deep convolutional neural networks. In addition, implications are drawn for the use of information and probability theory - both of which are idealized formal languages
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
In The Idealized Brain, special attention is paid to the use of mathematical idealization in neural coding models and deep convolutional neural networks. In addition, implications are drawn for the use of information and probability theory - both of which are idealized formal languages
Great to learn that it's useful for you!!
August 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Great to learn that it's useful for you!!
Very interesting @williamngiam.github.io I'd love if you could share some references and very happy to keep this conversation going if you wish
August 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Very interesting @williamngiam.github.io I'd love if you could share some references and very happy to keep this conversation going if you wish
If there is interest in more posts about the contents of the book, reach out and I'll create some posts. There is a book symposium organized on the Brains Blog (November) with commentaries from @francesegan.bsky.social, @coreymaley.net, @zoedrayson.bsky.social and Karl Friston. Truly grateful!
August 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If there is interest in more posts about the contents of the book, reach out and I'll create some posts. There is a book symposium organized on the Brains Blog (November) with commentaries from @francesegan.bsky.social, @coreymaley.net, @zoedrayson.bsky.social and Karl Friston. Truly grateful!
The book is published in open access format. You can find the free version via this link:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...
The Idealized Mind
We study nature, including the mind and brain, by building scientific models. In The Idealized Mind, Michael Kirchhoff brings together ideas from the philoso...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The book is published in open access format. You can find the free version via this link:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255293...