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Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Ὑπατίᾱ (Hypatia)
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§ 124 The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.). PI, Wittgenstein
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Inês Hipólito Philosophy (BA, 2010; MA, 2012); Cognitive Science (2015) School of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts Building 19. Office 6064 University of Wollongong (Australia) Email: inesh@uow.edu.au 
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I am graduated in Philosophy (BA, 2010; MA., 2012 summa cum laude), and Cognitive. Science (PG, 2015). Currently, I am a postgraduate award PhD candidate on Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, at the University of Wollongong (Australia). My research focuses on the relation between perception and cognition. While perceive and cognising sometimes inter-relate, perceiving has special properties that motivate thinking of it in terms of a perception-cognition boundary. My research questions whether and, if so, how to draw boundaries between perception and cognition in optimisation schemes of predictive processing and active inference. There are philosophical and empirical reasons in favour of a relation between cognition and perception. However, in the light of visual ‘illusions’, predictive processing is left with one puzzle, how to draw new boundaries that specify conditions for contingent segregation within the perception-cognition continuum - one that is not vulnerable to epistemological problems of content? When I am not thinking about these things, I enjoy travelling to discover cultures and myself and exploring the natural world. Check out my pictures on Instagram. 
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery" - Charles Darwin
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