Tom Froese
Biographic Data
| ID | 1287142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Froese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Froese |
| SIGNATURE | FROESE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9899-5274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sense-making reconsidered
The role of regularity detection and prediction in the exploration of sense of agency
We examined the effect of updating the internal model on the exploration of the sense of agency. • The sense of agency did not change before and after updating the internal model. • Our results suggest the sensory predictions from the internal model are not dominant in exploring the sense of agency. • Regularity detection is likely a dominant factor in the emergence of the sense of agency during control exploration. The Sense of Agency (SoA) refe…
Quantifying What Is Efficacious Yet Not Observable
Cognitive neuroscience faces a measurement problem: core features of the human mind cannot be directly observed in the brain. For example, intentions are efficacious in behavior generation yet cannot be reduced to the sub‐personal quantities of neural activity without losing their purpose‐driven, normative character. This instrumental limitation is fundamental yet remains insufficiently recognized. To bring this issue to the forefront and reorien…
The generative role of noise in shaping social habits
Social habits are most readily associated with synchrony, coordination, and the smooth flow of social interaction. This paper offers a complementary perspective, proposing that noise – moments of desynchronization, error, perturbation, stress, surprise – can be a generative force that drives the emergence and maintenance of social habits. We develop our account by drawing on recent work exploring the conditions necessary for noise to play a gener…
El enfoque enactivo. Bosquejos teóricos desde la célula hasta la sociedad
Hay una pequeña, pero creciente, comunidad de investigadores que abarca un espectro de disciplinas unidas en su rechazo al aún dominante paradigma computacionalista en favor del enfoque enactivo. El marco teórico de este enfoque se centra en un conjunto de ideas, como la de autonomía, creación de sentido, emergencia, corporeización y experiencia. Estos conceptos están encontrando aplicaciones nuevas en un rango de áreas diversas. Un tema candente…
From tech to tact
Scientific Observation Is Socio-Materially Augmented Perception
There is an overlooked similarity between three classic accounts of the conditions of object experience from three distinct disciplines. (1) Sociology: the “inversion” that accompanies discovery in the natural sciences, as local causes of effects are reattributed to an observed object. (2) Psychology: the “externalization” that accompanies mastery of a visual–tactile sensory substitution interface, as tactile sensations of the proximal interface …
The pandemic experience survey II
In August 2021, Froese et al. published survey data collected from 2,543 respondents on their subjective experiences living under imposed social distancing measures during COVID-19 (1). The questionnaire was issued to respondents in the UK, Japan, and Mexico. By combining the authors’ expertise in phenomenological philosophy, phenomenological psychopathology, and enactive cognitive science, the questions were carefully phrased to prompt reports t…
The Pandemic Experience
The Pandemic Experience: A Corpus of Subjective Reports on Life During the First Wave of COVID-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence
The capacity for dynamically coordinating behaviour is assumed to have largely matured in infancy. In adolescence—another sensitive period for social development—the primary focus on individual social cognition as the main driver of interaction has prevented the study of actual social interaction as behavioural coordination within dyads. From a dynamic perspective, however, capturing real‐time social dynamics is essential for the assessment of so…
On the spatiotemporal extensiveness of sense-making
Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity
Enactivists are searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity. Theory of mind approaches to social cognition have come a long way from folk psychological theorizing by paying more attention to neuroscientific evidence and phenomenological insights. This has led to hybrid accounts that incorporate automatic processing and allow an instrumental role for perception and interaction. However, two foundational assumptions remain unquestione…
The Clinical Concept of Opioid Addiction Since 1877
In 1877, the psychiatrist Edward Levinstein authored the first monograph on opioid addiction. The prevalence of opioid addiction prior to his publication had risen in several countries including England, France and Germany. He was the first to call it an illness, but doubted that it was a mental illness because the impairment of volition appeared to be restricted to opioid use: it was not pervasive, since it did not extend to other aspects of the…
Ritual anti-structure as an alternate pathway to social complexity? The case of ancient Teotihuacan, Central Mexico
There is growing dissatisfaction with the traditional approach to the evolution of complex societies, which treated it principally as a sequence of transformations toward political centralization d
Making sense of the chronology of Paleolithic cave painting from the perspective of material engagement theory
La vida es preciosa por ser precaria
El computacionalismo aspira a ofrecer una teoría unificadora de la vida y la mente. Fracasa en esta tarea debido a que carece de las herramientas conceptuales para abordar el problema del significado. Argumento que una postura significativa es enactuada por un individuo con el potencial intrínseco a toda existencia biológica: la muerte. Para este individuo la vida importa a fin de adaptarse activamente, en lugar de desintegrarse pasivamente. Intr…
Surfing uncertainty
Predicting the binding mode of flexible polypeptides to proteins is an important task that falls outside the domain of applicability of most small molecule and protein−protein docking tools. Here, we test the small molecule flexible ligand docking program Glide on a set of 19 non-α-helical peptides and systematically improve pose prediction accuracy by enhancing Glide sampling for flexible polypeptides. In addition, scoring of the poses was impro…
On the Origin of the Genus Psilocybe and Its Potential Ritual Use in Ancient Africa and Europe1
Time-Series Analysis of Embodied Interaction
There is a growing consensus that a fuller understanding of social cognition depends on more systematic studies of real-time social interaction. Such studies require methods that can deal with the complex dynamics taking place at multiple interdependent temporal and spatial scales, spanning sub-personal, personal, and dyadic levels of analysis. We demonstrate the value of adopting an extended multi-scale approach by re-analyzing movement time-ser…
Bio-machine Hybrid Technology
Interactively guided introspection is getting science closer to an effective consciousness meter
The enactive approach
There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the enactive approach . The framework of this approach is centered on a core set of ideas, such as autonomy, sense-making, emergence, embodiment, and experience. These concepts are finding novel applications in a diverse range of areas. One hot topic has been the establishm…
On the Origin of the Genus Psilocybe and Its Potential Ritual Use in Ancient Africa and Europe1
On the spatiotemporal extensiveness of sense-making
Time-Series Analysis of Embodied Interaction
There is a growing consensus that a fuller understanding of social cognition depends on more systematic studies of real-time social interaction. Such studies require methods that can deal with the complex dynamics taking place at multiple interdependent temporal and spatial scales, spanning sub-personal, personal, and dyadic levels of analysis. We demonstrate the value of adopting an extended multi-scale approach by re-analyzing movement time-ser…
Ritual anti-structure as an alternate pathway to social complexity? The case of ancient Teotihuacan, Central Mexico
There is growing dissatisfaction with the traditional approach to the evolution of complex societies, which treated it principally as a sequence of transformations toward political centralization d
Making sense of the chronology of Paleolithic cave painting from the perspective of material engagement theory
The enactive approach
There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the enactive approach . The framework of this approach is centered on a core set of ideas, such as autonomy, sense-making, emergence, embodiment, and experience. These concepts are finding novel applications in a diverse range of areas. One hot topic has been the establishm…
Interactively guided introspection is getting science closer to an effective consciousness meter
Bio-machine Hybrid Technology
Surfing uncertainty
Predicting the binding mode of flexible polypeptides to proteins is an important task that falls outside the domain of applicability of most small molecule and protein−protein docking tools. Here, we test the small molecule flexible ligand docking program Glide on a set of 19 non-α-helical peptides and systematically improve pose prediction accuracy by enhancing Glide sampling for flexible polypeptides. In addition, scoring of the poses was impro…
On the Origin of the Genus Psilocybe and Its Potential Ritual Use in Ancient Africa and Europe1
Time-Series Analysis of Embodied Interaction
There is a growing consensus that a fuller understanding of social cognition depends on more systematic studies of real-time social interaction. Such studies require methods that can deal with the complex dynamics taking place at multiple interdependent temporal and spatial scales, spanning sub-personal, personal, and dyadic levels of analysis. We demonstrate the value of adopting an extended multi-scale approach by re-analyzing movement time-ser…
Making sense of the chronology of Paleolithic cave painting from the perspective of material engagement theory
La vida es preciosa por ser precaria
El computacionalismo aspira a ofrecer una teoría unificadora de la vida y la mente. Fracasa en esta tarea debido a que carece de las herramientas conceptuales para abordar el problema del significado. Argumento que una postura significativa es enactuada por un individuo con el potencial intrínseco a toda existencia biológica: la muerte. Para este individuo la vida importa a fin de adaptarse activamente, en lugar de desintegrarse pasivamente. Intr…
Searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity
Enactivists are searching for the conditions of genuine intersubjectivity. Theory of mind approaches to social cognition have come a long way from folk psychological theorizing by paying more attention to neuroscientific evidence and phenomenological insights. This has led to hybrid accounts that incorporate automatic processing and allow an instrumental role for perception and interaction. However, two foundational assumptions remain unquestione…
The Clinical Concept of Opioid Addiction Since 1877
In 1877, the psychiatrist Edward Levinstein authored the first monograph on opioid addiction. The prevalence of opioid addiction prior to his publication had risen in several countries including England, France and Germany. He was the first to call it an illness, but doubted that it was a mental illness because the impairment of volition appeared to be restricted to opioid use: it was not pervasive, since it did not extend to other aspects of the…
Ritual anti-structure as an alternate pathway to social complexity? The case of ancient Teotihuacan, Central Mexico
There is growing dissatisfaction with the traditional approach to the evolution of complex societies, which treated it principally as a sequence of transformations toward political centralization d
The Pandemic Experience
The Pandemic Experience: A Corpus of Subjective Reports on Life During the First Wave of COVID-19 in the UK, Japan, and Mexico
Capacity for social contingency detection continues to develop across adolescence
The capacity for dynamically coordinating behaviour is assumed to have largely matured in infancy. In adolescence—another sensitive period for social development—the primary focus on individual social cognition as the main driver of interaction has prevented the study of actual social interaction as behavioural coordination within dyads. From a dynamic perspective, however, capturing real‐time social dynamics is essential for the assessment of so…
On the spatiotemporal extensiveness of sense-making
Scientific Observation Is Socio-Materially Augmented Perception
There is an overlooked similarity between three classic accounts of the conditions of object experience from three distinct disciplines. (1) Sociology: the “inversion” that accompanies discovery in the natural sciences, as local causes of effects are reattributed to an observed object. (2) Psychology: the “externalization” that accompanies mastery of a visual–tactile sensory substitution interface, as tactile sensations of the proximal interface …
The pandemic experience survey II
In August 2021, Froese et al. published survey data collected from 2,543 respondents on their subjective experiences living under imposed social distancing measures during COVID-19 (1). The questionnaire was issued to respondents in the UK, Japan, and Mexico. By combining the authors’ expertise in phenomenological philosophy, phenomenological psychopathology, and enactive cognitive science, the questions were carefully phrased to prompt reports t…
From tech to tact
El enfoque enactivo. Bosquejos teóricos desde la célula hasta la sociedad
Hay una pequeña, pero creciente, comunidad de investigadores que abarca un espectro de disciplinas unidas en su rechazo al aún dominante paradigma computacionalista en favor del enfoque enactivo. El marco teórico de este enfoque se centra en un conjunto de ideas, como la de autonomía, creación de sentido, emergencia, corporeización y experiencia. Estos conceptos están encontrando aplicaciones nuevas en un rango de áreas diversas. Un tema candente…
The generative role of noise in shaping social habits
Social habits are most readily associated with synchrony, coordination, and the smooth flow of social interaction. This paper offers a complementary perspective, proposing that noise – moments of desynchronization, error, perturbation, stress, surprise – can be a generative force that drives the emergence and maintenance of social habits. We develop our account by drawing on recent work exploring the conditions necessary for noise to play a gener…
Sense-making reconsidered
The role of regularity detection and prediction in the exploration of sense of agency
We examined the effect of updating the internal model on the exploration of the sense of agency. • The sense of agency did not change before and after updating the internal model. • Our results suggest the sensory predictions from the internal model are not dominant in exploring the sense of agency. • Regularity detection is likely a dominant factor in the emergence of the sense of agency during control exploration. The Sense of Agency (SoA) refe…
Quantifying What Is Efficacious Yet Not Observable
Cognitive neuroscience faces a measurement problem: core features of the human mind cannot be directly observed in the brain. For example, intentions are efficacious in behavior generation yet cannot be reduced to the sub‐personal quantities of neural activity without losing their purpose‐driven, normative character. This instrumental limitation is fundamental yet remains insufficiently recognized. To bring this issue to the forefront and reorien…
Psychology (12 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (10 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (9 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works)