New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘 Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵

"... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis." "... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. " www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Internationaler Strafgerichtshof ersetzt Microsoft Office

"... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis." "... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. " www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Die Antwort auf die Kleine Anfrage zur #Patientenakte, die auch mich in den letzten Tagen schon ziemlich hat staunen lassen, ist jetzt öffentlich. Sie ist nicht sicher und es ist auch nicht verhinderbar, dass die Gesundheitsdaten in den USA landen. Wow.

This is relevant for applied ethics: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

“Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth,” he told me. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"An account as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject." @publisherswkly.bsky.social reviews "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna." On sale tomorrow:

Zur Erinnerung: DAS ist das Problem der deutschen Automobilindustrie. (Grafik von Ember) Sie hat die Elektro-Revolution verschlafen und will jetzt verzweifelt Zulieferer retten, die nur Teile für Verbrenner herstellen können. Innovator's Dilemma in Reinkultur.

Powerful scientific clues to the mystery of consciousness are emerging from its very absence. Advanced meditation research seeks to scientifically understand profound and powerful shifts in consciousness that can arise from contemplative mastery. One such shift, which we call...

It's release day for STRANGE ATTRACTOR, the first and surely the definitive biography of Terence McKenna! @gmantic.bsky.social did an incredible job on this book. It's one of the best biographies I've ever read. Get it today! mitpress.mit.edu/978026204957...

Charlie Kirk, der neue Held von Spahn, Ulf Poschardt und Nius, wurde von Bob Vylan als „Stück Scheisse“ bezeichnet. Aber da ist mehr: Kirk gibt vor Trumps Putschversuch am 6. Januar zu, 80 Busse voller gewaltbereiter Schläger organisiert zu haben! Ein wahrer Meinungsbefreier - mit Fäusten.

The rise of generative AI chatbots has led to the creation of tools that purport to offer people the opportunity to speak directly with religious figures, such as Jesus Christ go.nature.com/4n8ggxb

Israel has officially begun annexing the West Bank by forcing residents of several Area C towns to obtain special Israeli permits to pass through the checkpoints at their entrances. It starts in villages northwest of Jerusalem: Beit Iksa, Nabi Samu’il, and Khallayleh. www.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...

Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia

Your PDF is here: www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/re...

Now available in English: The German National Academy's Proposal for Social Media & Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: www.leopoldina.org/en/publicati...

Der Vorschlag ist eine der Handlungsempfehlungen aus dem Leopoldina-Diskussionspapier „Soziale Medien und die psychische Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen“. Zum Papier: www.leopoldina.org/publikatione...

The deadline for submissions for the 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize (€20k) is soon: Sept 30th. For the best contribution to neuroscience that substantially advances our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the experience of pure awareness. For details, see screenshot!

@anilseth.bsky.social @metzinger.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social @karlfristonnews.bsky.social

Zum Diskussionspapier „Soziale Medien und die psychische Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen“: www.leopoldina.org/socialmedia-kinder

🚨 New article in #NCONSC! Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity @antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

Not such a bad summary at all.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=k72T...

A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Another amazing Special Issue in @phimisci.bsky.social! 👇

I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Was a pleasure to present!! 🎉🤓

16-hour surgery.... How many animals have died for this year's William James prize at #ASSC28? I didn't have this in mind when Bernard Baars, William Banks, George Buckner, David Chalmers, Stanley Klein, Bruce Mangan, David Rosenthal, Patrick Wilken, and me created the ASSC in 1994.

Enjoying the atmosphere at @assc28.bsky.social here in Crete! It's great to be around a lot of researches focused on our actual experience. Also looking forward to Edmundo Lopez-Sola's poster coming up and @matthewsacchet.bsky.social 's talk this afternoon on advanced meditation. :) #assc28

Meanwhile, everywhere: "Things aren't just getting worse. They are getting worse faster." The Extreme Weather Report, Jun 26, 2025.

Seems like it’s time to think about #Hexit - here driven by the EU, not one Member State wanting to leave. This ongoing strategic erosion from inside with support from Russia and other autocrats has to finally meet a clear response. centraleuropeantimes.com/hungarys-dec...

Wenn die Union damit durchkommt, ist das ein epochaler Skandal. Man kann mitten in einer eskalierenden Katastrophe nicht Gelder,die zur Bekämpfung der Katastrophe eingeplant sind, stattdessen zur Beschleunigung der Katastrophe einsetzen.

OpenAI Seems to Be Making a Very Familiar, Very Cynical Choice www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

Action speaks louder than words. Danish Minister of Digitalisation @carolinestage.bsky.social wants to phase out Microsoft from the ministry to reduce the dependency on US tech. This will be a long process. But actual action, not just talking points, is noteworthy!