Alberto Liardi
Imperial College London
Alberto Liardi is a co-author of Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness. Cambridge lists his affiliation as the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. The Open Peer Commentary appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 49, e321, on 17 September 2026. The other authors are George Blackburne, Jeremy I. Skipper, Pedro A. M. Mediano, and Fernando E. Rosas.
The publisher’s abstract links subjectivity and substrate through the different ways nature can support new dynamical laws at higher scales. It suggests that autopoiesis may require and promote a kind of emergence necessary but not sufficient for consciousness. The accessible abstract and author details do not identify Liardi’s job title, individual contribution, or broader philosophical commitments. This profile does not infer those from his affiliation.
Our account of compatibilist emergence separates this shared proposal from its editorial assessment. A possible relation between life and emergence still needs evidence about which systems possess the proposed condition and what else experience requires.
Known for. Co-author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
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- Pedro MedianoImperial College London and the University of CambridgeIntegrated Information Decomposition, and the revised non-negative measure of integrated information
- George BlackburneUniversity College London and Imperial College LondonFirst author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
- Jeremy I. SkipperUniversity College LondonCo-author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
- Fernando E. RosasUniversity of Sussex, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, and PIBBSSCorresponding author of the BBS commentary on compatibilist emergence
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