🚨 How do collective behaviours (high-order interdependencies) *emerge*❓ Can systems with low-order interactions do it? What do these minimal synergistic systems look like? In arxiv.org/abs/2505.246... we show when and how synergies emerge when no high-order mechanisms are involved. Short 🧵: 1/N

🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Throwing this one into the virtual void in the hope there are a few hapless souls interested: Would anyone like to participate in an #Information #Geometry reading/journal/study club? Preferably in person, if you're in Paris. But, would consider doing an online one *for sure*.

Brighton feels as good as I remember it.

🧠 New preprint! 🧠 As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on: Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep osf.io/preprints/ps... with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social A brief 🧵!

This really does sound amazing. I'll be looking into this. Also, I absolutely love the colour pallette. :-) Congratulations!

The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555

📜 ¡New preprint! 📜 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪🧠 With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including: @zefanzheng.bsky.social @robertchisciure.bsky.social @jaanaru.bsky.social @bechir-jarraya.bsky.social

Thank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!

The rise of the machines or the age of digital-infantilism? I tried a thing.. Here I write on the current digital-situation we find ourselves in. With an optimistic view on our future, with wider-reaching - and hopefully biologically-centred - aspirations. It's fun, general, and personal writing

If #emergence is your thing, and, even if it isn't, here is a great annual workshop -- now on its third iteration(!) -- where you will get to hear some great presenters, of which, I am the least interesting. Really looking forward to it!! @sussexcogs.bsky.social

Today, Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu write in the @nytimes.com on the necessity for a deflation of idolising #AGI. Great piece.

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop: osf.io/preprints/os...

Great article by @markdhumphries.bsky.social here. Humphries’ work had a significant impact on my thinking. This is precisely what we attempt to do in our recent preprint, and in previous published neural modelling work. I’m sympathetic to the focus on dynamics in coarse graining.

The post Rick Bretzel reposts is one I am enamoured by as I currently read the paper myself. I completely agree with Rick that slow, and thoughtful science is the way forward. Not everything, everywhere, all at once. It reminds me that in a world levelled by noise, the quiet resounds furthest

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... 2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/ps... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

@thomasandrillon.bsky.social puts it brilliantly here. Maybe indeed, less, rather than more, is more.

The pleasure remains mine. 🤗

📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics" [email protected] @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter Strap in! 1/n

Was a pleasure to present!! 🎉🤓

1/ Today at @assc28.bsky.social from the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and friends: 9:50am, Kalokainouri Hall, @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social "Unfolding Sleep’s Emergent Dynamical Organisation in the Temporal and Spectral Domains"

We kick off #EmbracingComplexity with the inimitable @laurennross.bsky.social explaining two key aspects of emergence that cause philosophical and scientific challenges. Challenges we hope to tackle! @ifisc.uib-csic.es @rherzoga.bsky.social

We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to #Mallorca tomorrow at the @ifisc.uib-csic.es, for the #EmbracingComplexity: Principled and practical approaches to #emergence! It's going to be a stellar line-up, during what appears to be a few glorious summer days. See you tomorrow everyone! 🎉🎉

We need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤 If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then? Scientists know actually very little about this private moment. We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible! Here is the link: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

📢Alain Destexhe and colleagues from @neuropsi.bsky.social introduce a computational framework to study how molecular changes impact brain activity. #compneurosky #Neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Great piece of work by a tech-master of EEG analysis.

A huge proponent of this way of thinking. It is to me an absolute, that academia and ideas are at a complete loss without extended periods of mindwandering. Something I have always valued artist friends who were able to retain it, but better than us academics.

The belief that artificial consciousness is coming crucially depends on the assumption that consciousness is a computation. In this new paper, we'll try to convince you that consciousness cannot be a computation w Albert Gidon and M.Larkum www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #neuroAI #consci

🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the #emergent dynamical structure in #biophysical neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart; @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social **Where is my mind?** A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social

To go fast, one must go slow.

📣LIFE UPDATE📣 I’m incredibly excited to finally announce that I’ll be beginning a postdoctoral position at the Institut des Neurosciences (@neuropsi.bsky.social), CNRS (@cnrs.fr), with Alain Destexhe. 🥰🥳🍾 1/4

Just finished. This is a great piece.. along the right lines of thought!

E-fields doing their thing. Just sayin’..

Love stumbling across gems. Noise, is not just noise, lets stratify this notion more often:

What is a causal process?

2.5 years after ‘the great debate’ at ASSC Amsterdam, we revisit it: Lamme, @standehaene.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social , Boly and @anilseth.bsky.social present their theories, and Melloni and myself try to extract some insights and criticisms. >>> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you blinked this week, you could have missed two papers on mind blanking! A review: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And an empirical paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats @ademertzi.bsky.social and @parboulakis.bsky.social!

🏆 Embracing #Complexity: Principled and Practical Approaches to #Emergence 🏆 We are delighted to announce a first-of-its-kind workshop on emergence across scientific domains. Hosted on 23-27 June, 2025, @ #IFISC, Mallorca, Spain AND, WE WANT YOU TO COME! 🫵 🪧 ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS OPEN 🪧 Link 👇

Hearing @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu speak on EU’s AI future at the #AISummit in Paris sounds promising. But I would argue that a parallel with @cern.bsky.social should not be the direction. We should not be investing in larger data centres but rather better systems that use significantly less compute.

How is this a *shocking* surprise?

Ouff!! This sounds fascinating. May I ask, does this relate to at all, a form of coarse-graining as a mechanism for uncertainty reduction?

Is there anything written about the compatibility/differences between the constructor theory (a la David Deutsch) and Wolfram's computational universe program?

Can a "theory of everything" explain complexity from atoms and molecules to societies? The answer is negative, and even within physics, emergent, irreducible phenomena exist. Check this @pnas.org paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social co-founder David Pines and RB Laughlin pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Psychedelic-mediated Reversal of General Anesthesia and Restoration of Brain Dynamics in Rat doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience

Sounds like an amazing post.

Is it crazy that I think category theory should be taught in primary school?

An incredible tool, put together by maybe the most epic code-whiz I know. Laouen (Belloli) and co. have really outdone themselves with this one. If you’re specifically interested in applying synergy-based measures of HO aspects, I’d propose a careful read.