Henry Potter

PhD Candidate @ Trinity College Dublin, researching the biology of agency | Philosophy of Biology, Neuroscience & Cognition

[Henry Potter @HenryDPotter]

@WiringTheBrain @neuroAnjiolina It’s been posted here: https://t.co/CDDfAdbQE9

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

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: https://t.co/OuOHaD2bui

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

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! 😀

[Trinity Research @TrinityResearch]

📢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.
🔗https://t.co/sWHTcp5Bkw

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

ICYMI: How our genome is like a generative AI model https://t.co/sqZfuNJcqg

[Alejandro Fábregas Tejeda @AFabregasT]

We are really happy to announce that our collective book “The Riddle of Organismal Agency” is available online!👇https://t.co/44O1Er3O2E

For those who still prefer physical books, pre-orders for the print edition are also now open! 👇https://t.co/AI8yUaOo6K #philsci #histSTM

[James Briscoe @briscoejames]

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]

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?

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

In this paper, we argue for an inversion of that perspective - where the receiving neurons are actively *interpreting* their inputs

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

Really excited to have this new preprint out 😊, with @HenryDPotter: 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 – 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
https://t.co/6ZdbB0n1Oj

[Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin @TCDphilosophy]

Big congratulations to @HenryDPotter who received the Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Award in Philosophy today!👏👏

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

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)

[Lisa Feldman Barrett @LFeldmanBarrett]

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/ https://t.co/97jSyxi3Dm

[Dialectical Systems @dialectical_sys]

New Paper by @HenryDPotter and @WiringTheBrain (2022), Naturalizing Agent Causation

https://t.co/3YRpCF9HE7

[Henry Potter @HenryDPotter]

@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?

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

Naturalising Agent Causation https://t.co/l6UkJqVQFp #mdpientropy - with @henrydpotter, just published in @Entropy_MDPI

[Henry Potter @HenryDPotter]

@WiringTheBrain @pdakean @OSFramework Clearly, that middle initial isn’t working as well as I’d hoped it would…

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

New version uploaded: Naturalising Agent Causation https://t.co/X3VaVZHJsC with @HenryDPotter

[Mark Miller @PredictiveLife]

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 https://t.co/bZyiddCnQW #ActiveInference #SocialMediaAndWellBeing

[Henry Potter @HenryDPotter]

@Philip_Goff @VictorLamme Could you perhaps expand on what you mean by ‘not reducible to’ here, please? What would qualify as irreducible? Thanks.