Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta

Originally trained in visual neuroscience, Mazviita Chirimuuta is a philosopher at Edinburgh University who writes about the history of ideas behind the mind/brain sciences.

Her book on colour vision and perceptual reality, Outside Color, was published by MIT Press in 2015. This was followed in 2024 by The Brain Abstracted, about the ways that the theories developed in neuroscience are a vast simplification of the underlying complexity of brain, mind and body.

She is currently doing research on the biological basis of cognition and the philosophical origins of the AI programme.