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De auto, de geit en de wiskunde
driedeuren.nl www.nieuwezijds.nl/boek/de-auto-de-geit-en-de-wiskunde Het is een klassiek wiskunderaadsel: het driedeurenprobleem. Je mag in een spelshow kiezen tussen drie deuren. Achter één deur staat een auto die je graag wil winnen, achter de andere twee een geit. Zodra je een deur kiest, maakt de presentator een van de twee andere open: daar staat een geit. En dan…
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neuroevolutionbook.com
https://neuroevolutionbook.com Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design An MIT Press Book by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, David Ha, and Risto Miikkulainen, Foreword by Melanie Mitchell The online version of the book is now freely available in an open-access HTML format. The print edition will be released in October 2026. Neuroevolution is a population-based search…
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a psychology of real-life decision-making
“Toward a psychology of real-life decision-making” Novel developments in biologging technology allow for precise measurement of individual-level behavior across time and space. Additionally, novel technologies allow researchers to quantify in detail the environments in which people are embedded when making decisions. Such devices, however, are only useful to cognitive scientists when integrated with formal theoretical…
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Cognitive maps – a medium for thought
“Cognitive maps as a medium for thought“ Cognitive maps and propositional representations (the ‘language of thought’) are different from each other but share some key characteristics, such as compositionality. To be useful for thinking, cognitive maps must interface with language of thought-like representations. This may involve the same operations that are used to convert cognitive…
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INTEROCEPTIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
“Life-inspired interoceptive artificial intelligence for autonomous and adaptive agents” and free to read Despite remarkable advances in artificial intelligence (AI), building agents that can autonomously pursue goals while adapting to continuously changing environments remains a fundamental challenge. Living organisms naturally exhibit such adaptive autonomy, offering a compelling source of inspiration for how artificial systems might…
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From Denial to Acceptance
“From Denial to Acceptance—Leveraging the Five Stages of Grief to Unlock Climate Action” Climate change is not only a technical and environmental challenge but also an emotional and psychological one that affects public engagement, policy acceptance, and long-term sustainability. This study presents a conceptual framework based on the Kübler-Ross model from psychotherapy to explore emotional…
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Structure Inference Improves From Childhood to Adulthood
“Structure Inference in Complex Environments Improves From Childhood to Adulthood” also available on website of Aaron M. Bornstein. Early in development, children can infer latent structure in the world from sparse and ambiguous evidence. Through a process known as structure learning, they extract statistical regularities, construct causal models from those regularities, and use those models…
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Four faces of information in natural systems
Ever wonder what “information” really means? Here‘s a new paper, that lays out the multiple ways the term is used in natural science. Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, the paper proposes a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits. The idea of ‘information’ has been instrumental to…
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On Minds
“On Minds: Reflections of a Cognitive Architect”MIT Press OA Toward a deeper understanding of minds, whether natural or artificial, and of how they are studied and built across AI, AGI, and cognitive science. Minds are functional entities that enable intelligent behavior. In On Minds, Paul Rosenbloom offers reflections and perspectives on the study of minds arising from…
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Making sense of wickedness
“Making sense of wickedness: Directionality heuristics for challenge-led innovation policy” Highlights Sense-making helps to understand how policymakers view and tackle wicked problems. Directionality heuristics are mental shortcuts used to interpret and address problems. Different degrees of wickedness call for different directionality heuristics. Nescience creates additional directionality challenges for challenge-led policies. This article contributes to the…
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In de wolk of op de grond? – Is AI dan toch intelligent?
Ik was aangenaam verrast met de volgende uitspraak en de verduidelijking die ze me aanreikte: “Man with head in the clouds and feet on the ground, he very big man.”Niet echt een “quote” of gezegde, maar toch aangehaald om te verwijzen naar de groten der aarde. “Einstein was a giant. His head was in the…
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Brain rhythms – predictive processing perspective
“Brain rhythms of depression: A predictive processing perspective” Findings from electroencephalography studies converge on the notion that depression involves disrupted updating of beliefs, wherein positive and corrective information carries too little weight to revise rigid expectations about the self and the world. Across a range of neural signals, the brains of individuals with depression register…
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Brabant eindelijk belicht
VRT-journalist Luc Pauwels brengt een naar eigen zeggen ‘schandelijk onderbelicht stuk’ van de Vlaamse geschiedschrijving opnieuw tot leven. Pauwels beschrijft hoe één illustere Brabantse dynastie uit de brokstukken van het uiteengevallen Karolingische rijk een middeleeuws staatje smeedt dat ruim de helft van het huidige Vlaanderen en het zuiden van Nederland beslaat: het aloude hertogdom Brabant.…
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Embodied Intelligence
“Embodied Intelligence, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems” An exploration of embodied intelligence that moves beyond the traditional focus on brains and code to the role of embodiment across various disciplines. Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu. —Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate,There is nothing in the understanding that is…
