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Henry Potter
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Henry Potter
@HenryDPotter
PhD Candidate @ Trinity College Dublin, researching the biology of agency | Philosophy of Biology, Neuroscience & Cognition
Katılım Kasım 2021
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@neuroAnjiolina I don't think it's been posted yet... I'll check.
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Exploring the Mind: DO WE HAVE FREE WILL? Mitchell and Sapolsky Debate mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/events/explori…
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Loking forward to talk by @HenryDPotter at @ispsm_mind conference at 1pm Irish time 😊: "How to Make a Choice in an Indeterminate Universe: The Principle of Sufficient Control and Libertarian Free Will" - you can join here: ispsmind.com/international-…
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Lovely to have a physical copy of this book in my hand! With a chapter by @HenryDPotter and myself. Looking forward to reading the rest! 😀
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📢New on #researchMATTERS today: In the final part of our profile series, Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Award winner Henry Potter shares his research on the philosophical problems of action and free will from a biological perspective.
🔗tcd.ie/research/resea…
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ICYMI: How our genome is like a generative AI model technologyreview.com/2024/07/26/109…
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We are really happy to announce that our collective book “The Riddle of Organismal Agency” is available online!👇taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…
For those who still prefer physical books, pre-orders for the print edition are also now open! 👇routledge.com/The-Riddle-of-… #philsci #histSTM
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Enjoyed this from @WiringTheBrain & @HenryDPotter on mechanism & causation in neuroscience
Striking how applicable the arguments are to dev bio if substitute dev biol->neurosci; embryo->brain; gene regulation->neural causes; GRN as design constraint contributing to causation etc
Kevin Mitchell@WiringTheBrain
Really excited to have this new preprint out 😊, with @HenryDPotter: 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 – 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 osf.io/preprints/psya…
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To fully understand the causes of behavior, we need to understand not just what happens when different neurons are activated, but why those things happen. How does the organisation of the system cause a certain behavior to emerge? How and why did it get organised that way?
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In this paper, we argue for an inversion of that perspective - where the receiving neurons are actively *interpreting* their inputs
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Really excited to have this new preprint out 😊, with @HenryDPotter: 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 – 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Big congratulations to @HenryDPotter who received the Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Award in Philosophy today!👏👏
School of Social Sciences & Philosophy, TCD@tcd_school_ssp
Congratulations to @ImogenEve1, @marinaschenkel, @HenryDPotter, and Doireann O’Brien for receiving Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Awards today! Recognised for their dedication, effectiveness & commitment to fostering excellence in teaching & learning 👏🎉
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Delighted to contribute a chapter with @HenryDPotter to this exciting volume!
"A Critique of the Agential Stance in Development and Evolution"
(get in touch for a preprint)
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Most brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in @TrendsCognSci. 1/ cell.com/trends/cogniti…
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New Paper by @HenryDPotter and @WiringTheBrain (2022), Naturalizing Agent Causation
dialecticalsystems.eu/publications/n…
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@ThosVarley @DrYohanJohn Would you say that this is evidence that the organisation of the whole matters, or is it getting at something else / something more?
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@DrYohanJohn The fact that there can be predictive information in a set of variables that is not accessible when considering any subset of the whole (statistical synergy/integrated information) seems like a slam dunk argument against dogmatic reductionism imo.
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The reductionists will find lots of wiggle-room in their ability to redefine "sum". :P
Pete Mandik@petemandik
Since (1) reductionism holds a complex to be nothing more than the sum of its parts, and (2) nothing about parts or summing distinguishes the obviously distinguishable complexes ABC and BCA, then (3) reductionism is false.
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Naturalising Agent Causation mdpi.com/1563228 #mdpientropy - with @henrydpotter, just published in @Entropy_MDPI
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@WiringTheBrain @pdakean @OSFramework Clearly, that middle initial isn’t working as well as I’d hoped it would…
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Really delighted to say this paper with @HenryDPotter is now in press! 😊 Naturalising Agent Causation psyarxiv.com/27qba/ via @OSFramework
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Excited to be sharing some fantastic new work done with my colleague @Midnite_biscuit on the ways that social media can ruin our well-being by pathologically bending our predictive models of the world link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… #ActiveInference #SocialMediaAndWellBeing
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@Philip_Goff @VictorLamme Could you perhaps expand on what you mean by ‘not reducible to’ here, please? What would qualify as irreducible? Thanks.
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@VictorLamme I'm not sure what the question is asking. The thought is just that there might be causal dynamics in the brain that are not reducible to causal dynamics at more basic levels. That's clearly a coherent option, and I don't think we know enough about the brain to rule it out.
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If the neural processing associated with choice was reducible to underlying chemistry and physics, that would rule out libertarian free will. But we're a million miles away from knowing whether or not it is.
Mel Bartley@melb4886
What observations would throw light on whether free will exists or not?
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