Ben Gaskin
- PhD at the University of Sydney, supervised by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- early work in epistemology and philosophy of mind: written language, mediated representations, symbol grounding, inner speech
- current theoretical focus on thermodynamic origins of self-organisation, playing with lattice Boltzmann models and neural cellular automata
- emphasis on ontogenetic and phylogenetic methods: developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, genetic algorithms, cognitive robotics
- computer science as experimental philosophy: evolutionary algorithms, neural cellular automata, spiking neural networks, neural organoids
- reflexive feedback between top-down and bottom-up perspectives: biology to computation, computation to biology
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| cv.pdf | updated March 2025 |
| lapicque.html | Lapicque (1952), "Consciousness as a Cellular Function"—translation of an essay by the inventor of the integrate-and-fire neuron model |
| nishida.pdf | Logic and Artificial Life: Robotics and the Later Work of Kitarō Nishida—presented at the International Society of East Asian Philosophy Conference, Fukuoka University (December 2024) |
| symbol_grounding.pdf | Symbol Grounding in the Age of LLMs—presented at Robophilosophy, University of Aarhus (August 2024); published in the proceedings |
| symbol_as_such.pdf | The Symbol as Such: Morphological Computation and Perceptual Consciousness—presented at The Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Consciousness, Jagiellonian University (May 2024) |
| chain_of_thought.pdf | Egocentric Speech in Children and Machines—presented at Agency and Intentions in AI, University of Göttingen (May 2024) |
| after_babel.pdf | published in the Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (2023) |
| view_from_nowhere.pdf | master's dissertation submitted at the University of Auckland (2022) |