INÊS HIPÓLITO
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INÊS HIPÓLITO 
Post-doctoral researcher/Lecturer

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin School of Mind and Brain
& Department of Philosophy 
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Contact:   ines.hipolito@hu-berlin.de

&
Affiliate of the Theoretical Neurobiology Group 
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
University College London
United Kingdom




I work on the intersection between cognitive ontology and computational cognitive neuroscience. I use logical analysis to question the traditional computationalist account of cognition, and motivate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. Specifically, variational Bayes (VB), Dynamical Causal Modelling (DCM), and the Free Energy Principle (FEP).



In my PhD thesis "Cognition as Interaction: Making Room for A-Theoretical Cognition", I rejected the picture that the brain or the mind necessarily employs or represents the tools we use to scientifically investigate them. 

My research motivates seriously exploring interactionist ways of understanding cognition that reject cognition as essentially an ability or capacity for theorising or inferring. I investigate to what extent cognition can be understood in terms of unfolding interactions that adjust and adapt without assuming that those adjustments and adaptations necessarily involve or reduce to - always and everywhere - theorising, thinking, or modelling the world.

I develop a conceptual model to answer fundamental questions of cognition that require minimal assumptions and are consistent with evidence from Dynamical Systems Theory and 4E Cognition framework.

I aim to elucidate how we understand cognition in everyday life in a way that is consistent with using the technical apparatus of dynamical systems theory to investigate it without our falling foul of philosophical pictures entailing cognition as necessarily representing or the nervous system informationally based.

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There is no fundamental difference between man [human] and [non-human] animals
in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery
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- Charles Darwin
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