Brainchildren

The Triadic Mind: How Language Reveals the Limits of Human Cognition

Languages are the most complex symbolic systems humans have ever created. Yet children acquire them effortlessly, without formal…

Welcome: Mapping the Architecture of Autistic Cognition

Most people experience their minds as opaque.

The Many Brains Project

The Many brains project

BrainMind

At this important juncture in neuroscience, the BrainMind ecosystem is combining the most talented of these groups in novel ways to collectively shepherd, support, and fund ideas that can be translated from labs into interventions that will benefit humanity.

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

Nurturing our humanity: how domination and partnership shape our brains, lives, and future

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our …

The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together

A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, c

Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric architectures combining evolved and designed material and software. These advances are disrupting familiar concepts in the philosophy of mind, and require new ways of thinking about and comparing truly diverse intelligences, whose composition and origin are not like any of the available natural model species. In this Perspective, I introduce TAME-Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere-a framework for understanding and manipulating cognition in unconventional substrates. TAME formalizes a non-binary (continuous), empirically-based approach to strongly embodied agency. TAME provides a natural way to think about animal sentience as an instance of collective intelligence of cell groups, arising from dynamics that manifest in similar ways in numerous other substrates. When applied to regenerating/developmental systems, TAME suggests a perspective on morphogenesis as an example of basal cognition. The deep symmetry between problem-solving in anatomical, physiological, transcriptional, and 3D (traditional behavioral) spaces drives specific hypotheses by which cognitive capacities can increase during evolution. An important medium exploited by evolution for joining active subunits into greater agents is developmental bioelectricity, implemented by pre-neural use of ion channels and gap junctions to scale up cell-level feedback loops into anatomical homeostasis. This architecture of multi-scale competency of biological systems has important implications for plasticity of bodies and minds, greatly potentiating evolvability. Considering classical and recent data from the perspectives of computational science, evolutionary biology, and basal cognition, reveals a rich research program with many implications for cognitive science, evolutionary biology, regenerative medicine, and artificial intelligence.

Extended mind thesis

In philosophy of mind, the extended mind thesis says that the mind does not exclusively reside in the brain or even the body, but extends into the physical world.[1] The thesis proposes that some objects in the external environment can be part of a cognitive process and in that way function as extensions of the mind itself. Examples of such objects are written calculations, a diary, or a personal computer; in general, it concerns objects that store information. The hypothesis considers the mind to encompass every level of cognition, including the physical level.

MindNode

MindNode helps you capture, connect, and evolve ideas visually as mind maps and outlines.

Introducing TRIBE v2: A Predictive Foundation Model Trained to Understand How the Human Brain Processes Complex Stimuli

Understanding how the human brain processes the world around us is one of the greatest open challenges in neuroscience. Breakthroughs here could transform how we understand and treat neurological conditions affecting hundreds of millions of people — and improve AI systems by directly guiding their development from neuroscientific principles.

Joshua Park on Twitter / X

It’s hard to categorize or evaluate second-brain systems because there’s no single right answer.But I found one useful lens every second brain should be evaluated through: the lifecycle of your data.Collect -> Organize -> Evolve -> Use -> GovernSo I made a curated… pic.twitter.com/GrmBFLwvEW— Joshua Park (@JoshuaIPark) May 31, 2026

To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future | Quanta Magazine

A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.

Two Realities: Native Modes, Learned Social Systems, and the Foundations of Autistic Cognition

Part 1: The Architecture Overview