Big congratulations to Danielle O'Neill @danielle_o24 for crushing her Research Proposal Review today! Much more to come on the philosophy of diagnosis.
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McGivern Lab
@mcgivernlab
Research group at the University of Wollongong studying agency, intelligence, and emergent behaviours on multiple scales.
Wollongong, Australia Katılım Aralık 2019
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We're very excited to have @MattSim91081751 join us at HSI Philosophy next week for our first face-to-face research seminar in quite a while!
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Awesome line-up for this event in June, co-organised by @BeecroftNaomi! Get your abstracts in now.
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Join us for our final AIMS event of 2021, November 18/19th! More to come in 2022.
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Cognition did not appear out of nowhere in ‘higher’ animals but goes back millions, perhaps billions, of years aeon.co/essays/the-stu… @basalcognition
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Excited to announce our next AIMS seminar, "Dimensions of Life and the Evolution of Cognition" with Dr. Emily Parke (Auckland) and Prof. Andrew Barron (Macquarie)! October 22nd, 9:30-11:30am AEDT. Register w/ nick_brancazio @ uow.edu.au
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Very proud of lab member Jimmy Lewis-Martin @minus5wisdom for nominating as Postgrad Rep on UOW's governing University Council! Bring group agency to table, Jimmy!
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Check out our awesome lab-member @minus5wisdom presenting on "Universities as autonomously individuated systems", August 27th! Midnight is the perfect time for philosophical clarity.
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Coming up next Friday! Please register with @nickbrancazio if you'd like to attend
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AIMS workshop coming up on July 30th! "Non-neural cognition: How smart is slime?" with Christina Oettmeier (@Sulfurium), Matt Sims (@MattSim91081751), and Julian Kiverstein (@juliankiverste1)
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AIMS workshop coming up on July 30th! "Non-neural cognition: How smart is slime?" with Christina Oettmeier (@Sulfurium), Matt Sims (@MattSim91081751), and Julian Kiverstein (@juliankiverste1)
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A previously unknown 1949 letter from Albert Einstein, long stored away in a British home, documents his fascination with bees & his speculation that studies of biology could reveal new physics. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Our 2021 AIMS workshop series is starting on March 26th - please join us!
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To investigate the diversity of intelligence, we need an account of intelligent action that isn’t biased toward the human scale. @patrickmcgivern aims to develop such an account by focusing on the central concept of agency: templetonworldcharity.org/projects-datab…
@uowresearch @UOW
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Figure out your timezone and don't miss our own Dr @nickbrancazio at the next ENSO seminar -- tomorrow at 0900UCT (8pm AEDT)!
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We are delighted that @nickbrancazio will be giving the next ENSO seminar on "Regarding Perspectives: Bridging Feminist and Enactivist Theorizing" 4th Feb @ 0900UTC. See the webpage for details incl. time in your timezone ensoseminars.com/presentations/… #enaction #feminism
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Sara Green describes the role of size-dependent constraints in biological explanation. This is the second talk from our workshop last week on Explanation by Constraint. Click here: youtu.be/6Q22v4kozeE
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Just out from our friends over in basal cognition! "Basal cognition: conceptual tools and the view from the single cell" - Special Issue of Phil. Transactions edited by Pamela Lyon, Fred Keijzer, Detlev Arendt and Michael Levin
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2021/…
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If you want to keep up to date on our events this year, we now have an email list here: uowblogs.com/mcgivernlab/ai…
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Big congratulations to @BeecroftNaomi and @selfawareatoms for passing their 1st-year Research Proposal Reviews today! Glad they can both tick that off their 2020 to-do lists and move on to actual thesis writing (after a short celebratory break...)
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