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Gerd Gigerenzer delivering his keynote lecture at #CBEN, Antwerp on Ecological Rationality and Evolutionary Psychology.

"Modelling a world of uncertainty by simple risk problems is a waste of time"

#evosky #heuristics #philcogsci 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Loving Mikhalevich, Powell, & Logan, 2017. Decouples two key concepts often conflated in both comparative cognition and philosophy of action (!) to put the cognitive complexity --> behavioral flexibility inference on firmer footing #philcogsci #evobio
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Is behavioural flexibility evidence of cognitive complexity? How evolution can inform comparative cognition | Interface Focus
Behavioural flexibility is often treated as the gold standard of evidence for more sophisticated or complex forms of animal cognition, such as planning, metacognition and mindreading. However, the evi...
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January 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...
December 17, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Many debates about the Free Energy Principle (FEP) have emerged, including realist & antirealist interpretations of it. In his new article, Majid Beni makes the case for a structural realist characterization of the FEP 📝👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philphysics #philcogsci #philsky
April 3, 2024 at 8:13 PM