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fbusc
@quantumquia@poliversity.it  ·  activity timestamp last week

Qualche tempo fa leggevo un libro di cui non mi ricordo più l'autorə, ma il titolo era qualcosa del tipo "embodied cognition".

La tesi di questa corrente di pensiero è che, finché non ne capiremo di più del cervello, inteso come organo complesso e "bagnato", non riusciremo mai a capire davvero in che cosa consistano i processi cognitivi e quindi, per estensione, i processi cognitivi artificiali.

Nel libro c'era un'analogia molto affascinante. Nella scolastica medievale pare ci si azzuffasse sul problema della digestione umana. Il problema era questo: se il nostro corpo è intriso di peccato originale, quando mangiamo, ad esempio, carne di mucca e ingrassiamo, questa carne va a diluire il nostro peccato originale? Questo non sarebbe possibile, a causa dell'assioma (o dogma) della conservazione del peccato originale. L'unica conclusione logica poteva quindi solo essere quella per cui la carne di mucca non veniva trasferita nel nostro corpo direttamente (qualunque cosa questo volesse dire), ma dava l'energia al nostro corpo per crescere.

Sentita ora nel 2025 questa storia appare grottesca: come si può immaginare di capire la digestione senza aprir stomaci, studiarne i succhi, etc. etc.?

Eppure, abbiamo esattamente la stessa attitudine con la comprensione dei processi cognitivi. Pensiamo che siano riconducibili a pura logica. Forse perché pensare alla mente sembra più "astratto" che pensare allo stomaco e agli intestini?

Ma alla fine: che differenza c'è tra cervello e pancia?

#cognition #AI #mente #cervello

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Philo Sophies
@philosophies@mastodontech.de  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#Consciousness – The Brain’s #UserIllusion, Explained!🧠✨

What if consciousness isn’t the “captain” of our #thoughts — but just the dashboard we use to navigate them?

📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#Zoomposium #DanielDennett #Consciousness #UserIllusion #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Qualia #FreeWill #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Embodiment #Functionalism #Materialism #Naturalism #MindAndMachine #Cognition #IllusionOfSelf

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Thumbnail Zoomposium with Daniel Dennett
Thumbnail Zoomposium with Daniel Dennett
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Philo Sophies
@philosophies@mastodontech.de  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#Consciousness – The Brain’s #UserIllusion, Explained!🧠✨

What if consciousness isn’t the “captain” of our #thoughts — but just the dashboard we use to navigate them?

📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#Zoomposium #DanielDennett #Consciousness #UserIllusion #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Qualia #FreeWill #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Embodiment #Functionalism #Materialism #Naturalism #MindAndMachine #Cognition #IllusionOfSelf

Thumbnail Zoomposium with Daniel Dennett
Thumbnail Zoomposium with Daniel Dennett
Thumbnail Zoomposium with Daniel Dennett
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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"A large federally-funded study coming out of [US]America, published in Nature, 'marijuana users have enhanced cognitive abilities' ... [they] analysed brain imaging and cognitive data, from 37929 people. The cannabis consumers consistently outperformed the non-users in the cognitive tests. They had brain network characteristics typically associated with younger brains."

#ChrisFowlie, 2025

https://95bfm.com/bcast/95bfm-drive-w-halfqueen-r%C4%81pare-august-14th-2025

#podcasts#95bFM#MarijuanaMedia#UKBioBank #cannabis #cognition #research

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pospi
@pospi@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

As extensive and well researched as a high-level overview can be of #AI's impacts on society, #MentalHealth, human #cognition and the #Internet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/
(If you still have an Atlantic "free article" or access behind the paywall, that is...)
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@pospi@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

As extensive and well researched as a high-level overview can be of #AI's impacts on society, #MentalHealth, human #cognition and the #Internet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/
(If you still have an Atlantic "free article" or access behind the paywall, that is...)
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Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spelke

talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms: Leveraging developmental cognitive science to improve children's learning of mathematics"

#biology #evolution #learning #cognition

Elizabeth Spelke giving here presentation
Elizabeth Spelke giving here presentation
Elizabeth Spelke giving here presentation
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Björn Brembs
@brembs@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Giorgio Vallortigara

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara

Kicking off our CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy

#biology #evolution #cognition #neuroscience

Giorgio Vallortigara in the University of Trento at the workshop CogEvo
Giorgio Vallortigara in the University of Trento at the workshop CogEvo
Giorgio Vallortigara in the University of Trento at the workshop CogEvo
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