A review of 18 studies found no consistently reproducible subtypes of schizophrenia, suggesting that differences in brain structure across patients may reflect a spectrum rather than discrete biological categories.

A summary of my thesis.

I’ve shared my PhD thesis on PhilPapers: “Collective Consciousnesses: A Gradualist Approach to Protopsychist Monism.” I argue that invertebrate colonies may be natural forms of collective consciousness, grounded in synchronized electromagnetic fields. philpapers.org/rec/FONCCA-3

Publiquei minha tese de doutorado no PhilPapers: “Consciências coletivas: uma abordagem gradualista do monismo protopsíquico”. Defendo que as colônias de invertebrados podem ser formas naturais de consciência coletiva, baseadas em campos eletromagnéticos sincronizados. philpapers.org/rec/FONCCA-3

After four years of research, I defended my doctoral dissertation entitled “Collective Consciousnesses: A Gradualist Approach to Protopsychist Monism.” It was a moment of learning and exchange—very rewarding.

Galen Strawson responds gracefully and with good humour to my dig at panpsychism in @thetls.bsky.social @michaelpollan.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

We think that consciousness is just a matter of running the right code—Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith disagrees—Research into animal minds suggests that consciousness arises not from software but from electrical oscillations moving rhythmically across cell membranes… iai.tv/articles/stu... #philsky

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

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In April, I will defend my thesis entitled “Collective Consciousness: A Gradualist Approach to Protopsychist Monism.”

Do you think that panpsychism manages to escape the idealism charge or not? Can physical structure truly be mind-independent if it is grounded in consciousness? Would admitting that panpsychism is a form of idealism strengthen or undermine the view? #philsky

Please guys can we stop calling complex systems "more than the sum of their parts?" I'm guilty of this word crime myself, but I did my time by writing this post. 🧪

Is panpsychism a theory that should be taken seriously?

Publicado o livro Deus Ex Machina, com o qual contribuo, mais Gustavo Leal Toledo e Ana Grein com o capítulo intitulado "As duas vidas de Alan Foster: Um experimento mental sobre a identidade pessoal e a edição genética". Link: www.unifeso.edu.br/editora/cont...

My article on collective consciousness in social insects. open.substack.com/pub/anderson...

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Neste artigo, Julian Michels, filósofo da consciência, a partir do meu estudo sobre consciência em colônias de invertebrados, propõe a consciência como campo organizador. philpapers.org/rec/MICPCI-3

Segundo dia, sessão 2, do lançamento do livro "As Colônias de Formigas são Conscientes? - Are Ant Colonies Conscious?", comigo e Vald Mont, está disponível no canal do GEMA (Grupo de Estudo da Mente Animal), no Youtube. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjU-...

Segundo dia do lançamento do livro "Are Ant Colonies Conscious?", sessão 1, com Aryel Goes e José Camilo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0788...

Primeiro dia do lançamento do livro "Are Ant Colonies Conscious?" sessão 2 com @eschwitz.bsky.social , Sophie Nelson, Robert Rupert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35n...

Está disponível no canal do GEMA (Grupo de Estudo da Mente Animal), a sessão 1 do evento de lançamento online do livro "As Colônias de Formigas são Conscientes? - Are Ant Colonies Conscious?" com @lukeroelofs.bsky.social , @mlflumic.bsky.social e Daniel Friedman. youtu.be/BJ-PAt3cqf4?...

Coming up: We do mind-reading all the time—why not also also mind-sharing? Josh & Ray ask @julianje.bsky.social, Director of the Computational Social Cognition Lab at Yale University. 🎧 Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & kalw.org ❓More at philosophytalk.org/shows/mind-sharing #PhilSky

I was interviewed about my research and my experience with the viral response to my DPhil viva! Video here 👇 youtu.be/v_46GqZDZCk?...

Pioneering Neuroscientist has Mystical Experience. philipgoff.substack.com/p/pioneering...

Interencephalic Correlation as the foundation of the Superorganism Mind www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Interencephalic Correlation as the Foundation of the Superorganism Mind- Correlação Interencefálica como fundamento da Mente do Superorganismo. philpapers.org/rec/FONCIC

Interencephalic Correlation as the Foundation of the Superorganism Mind- Correlação Interencefálica como fundamento da Mente do Superorganismo. philpapers.org/rec/FONCIC

Meu artigo "Correlação Interencefálica como fundamento da Mente do Superorganismo" publicado em Perspectivas em Filosofia da Mente e da Informação, Coleção XX Encontro Anpof. drive.google.com/file/d/1DcQt...

O biólogo Arellano publicou o pré-print de um artigo em que busca responder a um problema que apresentei em meu artigo sobre a falta de um princípio de organização que responda se a colônia de insetos é um organismo. www.researchgate.net/publication/...?

A new article has been published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism and the science of consciousness: “Neurophenomenal Structuralism as a General Theory of Consciousness?” by Jakub Mihálik and Tomáš Marvan.

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻–𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 This looks like a major one! doi.org/10.1038/s415... #neuroskyence

New preprint ! Baby steps in conscious experiences - I explain why every single step matters when we climb the mountain of our embodied conscious life Check it out : it involves also drinking red wine versus seeing red wine 🍷 And thomas Nagel versus my grandma 😎😅 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Do bees see nothing? Primates with damage to the visual cortex have no conscious visual experience, but display adaptive visual behaviour (a phenomenon called blindsight). Here I team up with two primate researchers to ask if bee vision could be similar to blindsight. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.

So freaking proud of @maxlevy.bsky.social for his AAAS Kavli Gold 🏆 award for his feature about electrostatic ecology — how small creatures interact with electrostatic forces. Quanta's first Kavli Gold! Thanks to the whole team! www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-w...

Here's a short piece on de-extinction that just came out in Ethics, Policy, & Environment: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DKVRV...

The ant you can save Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far? | By Jeff Sebo & Andreas L Mogensen aeon.co/essays/an-an... #animals #pain #ethics #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...

My lecture on Collective Consciousness and Invertebrate Animal Colonies www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA7p...

Arrived today: My 2024 Clarkesworld story “How to Remember Perfectly” reprinted in Joe Stech’s Think Weirder: Year’s Best Science Fiction ideas. Some great company in the ToC!

Is matter conscious? app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/144378...

Consciousness as constrained superposition in a quantum network of mitochondria: https://osf.io/frket