Michael D. Kirchhoff received his PhD at the Macquarie University in Australia. Now he works at the university of Wollongong His research is located in one of the most exciting and fast moving areas of research in contemporary philosophy.His recent research focuses primarily on exploring to possibility of diachronic inter-level relations of dependence in cognitive systems and in dynamical systems more generally. He’s currently working on a proposal for a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award with the Australian Research Council. He intend to explore issues such as micro-temporality, the free energy principle and the self, and work on second-wave arguments for the hypothesis of extended cognition.