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Charles Bakker

PhD Student and Rotman Institute Member

Department of Philosophy
Western University
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As a busy PhD student with ADHD and a young family of six, I am interested in many different areas of science and philosophy. From how the Relational Interpretation of QM might inform theorizing about the direct perception of affordances, to the way a 4E approach to studying cognition ought to change how we conceive of death, I really am fascinated by the world around us. At present I am working on a thesis which will explore cross-modal illusions and multi-sensory perception, ecological psychology, olfactory perception, Neural Reuse, and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. I also love Scotch whisky and am interested in learning more about the science behind its appreciation.
​Bakker, Charles. "Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle." Physics of Life Reviews. Vol. 47. (2023): pp. 76-78.

Where we are:
"The boundary-line of the mental is certainly vague. It is better not to be pedantic, but to let the science be as vague as its subject."
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William James, The Principles of Psychology