Gualtiero Piccinini

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Curators’ Distinguished Prof @umsl. Barwise Prize winner. Author, Neurocognitive Mechanisms (OUP 2020). Resist fascism, address climate change, support Ukraine!

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Tweet Aug 24, 2022

There are a lot of misconceptions about mental representations. Mental representations are neural states that are routinely observed and manipulated in the lab, have a viable semantics, and explain intentionality. A thread. 1/

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Tweet Aug 21, 2022

Here is the thread I promised on ecological psychology (tentative, since I don’t actually know enough about it). Tl;dr: what is right about ecological psychology is compatible with a neurocomputational and representational approach to cognition. 1/

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Tweet Aug 18, 2022

Gentle reminder that cognition is dynamical and no one ever thought otherwise. One of the biggest blunders in the history of the mind sciences is the claim that cognition is dynamical as opposed to computational, and therefore ... 1/

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