Congratulations @adriendoerig.bsky.social and @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social. Some worthy notes in here, and glad more are pursuing thinking in this direction. Onward and upward!

Sneak peek of what I think will be an amazing workshop on tests for consciousness 😊, made possible by @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @aidaelamrani.bsky.social! You're cordially invited to join us! 𝗖-𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 June 8 – 10, 2026 Online (Zoom) www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

A good time to Paris..

The amount of times I have used LLMs and noticed them severely lacking in critical analyses with many incorrect assumptions, particularly on the edge-cases of knowledge, is astounding. If reviewers are using AI to help review articles this is a tragedy for new ideas and science! I beg, don't.

We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.

Given my *obvious* predilections, this will be a keen and interesting read. ✌️😅

No more power ups please. I just wanna chill and do my thang. I’ll be AI generating my way right into the stone age if this continues.

Absolutely agree

Love this, "Posture follows movement like a shadow" (quoted from Sherrington). Why the F***(@!#!@#) is it not acceptable to write such beautiful, moving lines in papers these days? 🫠

Thanks!! 😊

Just a reminder that it was slop before AI

🎉 📜 NEW #PREPRINT !! 📜 🎉 Spearheaded by Adam Barrett we tried to tackle some of the challenges of IIT. We confront aspects worth delving into, with an incredible team of collaborators, inc. Pedro Mediano, @frosas.bsky.social, Daniel Bor, Lionel Barnett, and @anilseth.bsky.social.

Hello dreamers, I would like to crowdsource how we test for consciousness(?) Do you know of any papers exploring these topics. Feel free to link anything, even if you think I'm aware of the paper (i.e., Bayne et al.'s paper, etc.). #consciousness #neuroscience #sentience

Very nice! Will be looking into this with interest..

In episode 886, I talk with Dr. Randall Beer about autopoiesis, enactivism, dynamical systems, and evo-devo approaches in #Biology. #CognitiveScience #Science youtu.be/1YcSgczYqKk

Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

It was a privilege to be able to talk on our view of synthetic consciousness for the @activeinference.bsky.social. Thanks for the questions! I'm excited about what we are attempting to do here. If you're interested in some hints of extensions and future work we have planned, do have a listen.

Happy to share our preprint mapping the structure of theories of consciousness and their predictions, with @edenelbaz.bsky.social, @shaifischer.bsky.social, @maorschreiber.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social. Accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Supplementary: osf.io/9xug8/overview

This will be top! C'est top! You should definitely apply to give a kick ass talk, hang out with fellow mathy nerds, and chat cool stuff. #MoC7 #AMCS #slay

If you were interested in the original paper, but no longer have time for reading or just like videos, I recently gave a talk hosted by the kind and erudite @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, which you can now view on his youtube channel. Thank you enormously for having me! @jaanaru.bsky.social

Seems very nice and relevant..

A behind-the-hood metric of synergistic emergence applied to neurodegeneration. Well done @keenandown.bsky.social and team! A next step would be to apply this to firing rates underlying the fMRI (totally not hinting at a collab) ;-)

Quantifying emergence in neural populations. Great to see this preprint out by Hardik and co! Very nice results. I love the use of the Izhikevich neuron. Complements nicely prev. work colleagues and I published on a *different* measure of emergence in biophysical neural models (see next comment)

An absolutely precision-oriented read from the wider team of @canalesjohnson.bsky.social and co. on the information processing of prediction errors--an already high feat. They go further, relating it to environmental stimuli across sleep stages.

This is shaping up to be a great event with top speakers. If you’re interested in the continuity of minds it’s well worth checking out.

www.universite-lyon.fr/nos-domaines... A Chinese student holding a Master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience and a strong interest in meditation research is eligible to apply for this PhD scholarship at the University of Lyon before February 23, 2026. Details are provided below.

A fun, very Jaan-like, and inspiring discussion about some principles outlined in our most recent paper on #biological #computationalism. The clear mind of @jaanaru.bsky.social at it for @thetransmitter.bsky.social

This is quite the paper!

Writing is *not* thinking. I've heard the counterargument to this, used recently to save writing from saturated #LLM usage. But, all it does is give more credence to LLM architectures and their instantiation of mind. It is a Chomskyan fallacy to equate #language and #thought. They are not the same.

Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a full thread, see: x.com/_victorbarne...

New preprint! with @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ve6c5_v1 Consciousness seems central to moral status debates, from AI to animal welfare. But is consciousness necessary for moral status? Is it sufficient? We surveyed >1000 people to find out. 🧵 1/n

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2601.14096 @chrisfields38.bsky.social @bhartl.bsky.social Leo Pio-Lopez "Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: a fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems" 🧪

📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5

What is the difference between autonomy and agency?

Thanks @pessoabrain.bsky.social !!

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

Under challenging conditions, human vision turns into iterative problem solving. Typical deep learning algorithms don't do this. Our paper out now in Plos Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... work led by @tarunkhajuria.bsky.social #visionscience #neuroAI

Preprint time: “Symmetries at the origin of hierarchical emergence” arxiv.org/abs/2512.00984 On how symmetries generate hierarchical macroscales and shape the structure of our beliefs, making high-dimensional inference tractable

🚨 New preprint on cortical slowing, stroke, and attention **Sleep-like slow waves in wakefulness index post-stroke behavioural alterations** Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @dreamteamicm.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social 🧠🧪💤

This place..

The process of writing feels like a never-ending process of not being able to deliver. A constant regurgitation of ideas that one is never satisfied with once vomited out. It is not satisfaction that deems the work complete, but the inability to stomach the bile any longer.

Beeping the hive-mind: Has there been anything published as an exposition of, *if* and *how* GNWT aligns with functional computationalism? ..Or is it primarily based on unofficially assumed relations?

Doom scrolling BlueSky recently, I love that @earlkmiller.bsky.social single-handedly stirred you all. ..On whichever side of the argument you sit on. ;-) Keeping it Punk whilst retaining rigour. Solid move, if you ask me.

If we continue like this, a degree will soon be nothing more than a driving licence for AI.

This looks really nice!

I am super happy to share that our project on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now published in Nature Methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wow

Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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