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Agency as the Source of a FreeWill

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cdj.bsky.social Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 6d
Hey philosophers, etc: new argument for free will just dropped! I once played with the idea of calling the paper "Is this compatibilism?" In short, I see it as in between compatibilism and (agent-causal) libertarianism. It doesn't fit perfectly in either view, however
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October 29, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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👇 Attention and the Relevance Problem

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cdj.bsky.social Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 26d
There is something really lovely about someone critically engaging with your work and finding a better version of what you wanted to say. My collaborator Jelle Bruineberg just published "Attention and The Relevance Problem" in PPR a couple of days ago, and I find myself agreeing with his critiques
Attention and the Relevance Problem
The relevance problem is the problem of how cognitive systems can be sensitive to what is relevant despite relevance being holistic, open-ended, and context-sensitive. The problem has typically been ...
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October 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Fair critical review, although skeptical about proposals that explain things with the language "internal hallucination" while "not giving up on it but ceasing to believe in it."

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Up By the Bootstraps!
Martin Seligman tells an inspiring story about human agency, but I still want wu wei 無為
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October 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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1) Physicalist humans are conceivable.
2) If Physicalist humans are conceivable, they are possible.
3) If physicalist humans are possible, ¬Physicalism is false.
4) Physicalist humans are possible.

C)¬Physicalism is false.

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March 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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“The false ‘hard problem of consciousness’ assumes upfront that there exists a metaphysical gap between mind and body. This contradicts everything we have learned about nature.”

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There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ | NOEMA
Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.
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May 9, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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👇 Is it really feasible to develop an artificial system that can be considered a subject or possess a sense of self?

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wiringthebrain.bsky.social Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Aug 22
Consciousness needs a subject osf.io/preprints/ps... - new preprint with Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social (commentary on Anil Seth's BBS piece)
To be conscious is to be an experiencing subject. This can be defined not in terms of computational functions or particular biological substrates, but rather in terms of relations: between subject and world, between parts of the subject, and through time. These kinds of relations – comprising a conscious mode of being – may well be implementable in artificial systems.
August 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Are there brain representations in the brain?

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Are there brain representations in the brain?
Where else would they be?
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May 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM