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Philosophy of mind, cognitive science and the predictive brain.
I’m a philosophy graduate from Macquarie University (2020, High Distinction average). My early interests were free will and moral responsibility, but since 2017 my focus has been predictive processing and the wider landscape of Bayesian brain theories. I plan to return to postgraduate study in 2027. The work here is early-stage: an exploration of possibilities, not settled positions.
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A philosophy graduate with a serious interest in the predictive mind.
I studied philosophy at Macquarie University, where my original interests were free will and moral responsibility. I was introduced to predictive processing in 2017 and it has held my attention ever since: I studied it alongside my units, chose it as my focus wherever I could, and presented student-level work on it at the AAP in 2018. I’ve continued reading and thinking about it independently, with a particular interest in what it might tell us about self-directed belief-updating, which is the focus of my independent project, Adaptive.
Research areas
Predictive Processing & Bayesian Brain Theories
Investigating the mind as a hierarchical prediction engine — how precision-weighting shapes belief revision, and what that mechanism can explain about cognition, self-models, and agency.
Enactive Cognition
Exploring cognition as something enacted through an organism's dynamic engagement with its environment, rather than computed in isolation from it.
Affordances & Ecological Psychology
Examining how features of the environment present possibilities for action, and how that ecological lens complements a predictive account of perception.
Moral Responsibility & Free Will
My original entry point into philosophy of mind — what agency and responsibility actually require, and how theories of mind bear on that question.
