When philosophers say “I don’t do metaphysics” what they mean is “I inherited someone else’s metaphysics and I don’t want to think about it.”

When you get halfway through an academic paper before realising you’ve read it before

Early autumnal mornings at the KLI: A Home to Theory that Matters

Me trying to save my paper after reviewer 2's comments.

Sartre capturing the Tuesday productivity well

When you think you’re done with a paper and then get your supervisor’s comments

We are super happy to announce the 2023 edition of our School of Ideas in Neuroscience! One week with fantastic speakers and engaging discussions about theories in neuro, AI, and neurophilosophy! nenckiopenlab.org/school-of-idea…

New preprint: Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States From Xu Ji, Eric Elmoznino, myself, Axel Constant, Guillaume Dumas, Guillaume Lajoie, Jonathan Simon & Yoshua Bengio Mila - Institut québécois d'IA arxiv.org/abs/2302.06403

🇦🇺 🦘 Was such an honour and a blast to open up the first ever Kinds of Minds conference on Major Transitions in the Evolution of Cognition, representing the KLI: A Home to Theory that Matters, Future Intelligence, and Cambridge HPS all the way down under in beautiful, sunny Sydney! 🇦🇺 🦘

Me, when people ask how I’m feeling about the end of the Ph.D. and submitting the thesis.

Really pleased to announce my latest publication, in collab with the wonderful @carl_b_sachs! This one means a lot to me, because I think it begins to answer some questions that have been bothering me for years, but had a hard time articulating. link.springer.com/article/10.100…