i mean, i get why these demos are interesting, but you know.. if "the rays are not coloured", then how could the paint be? (point being, there aren't really 'blue things' or 'grey things', rather just 'blue appearances', etc)

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

These LLM AIs are all suffering from a sort of synthetic Anton's syndrome - they have absolutely no capacity for spatial experience (or simulation of it) and yet are unaware of it - they have all the "high level" stuff you get from seeing, so why not behave as though it's *all* really there?

great thread but this is my favorite part

At first I read this blurb and got all defensive and nitpicky about the obvious misconception of "seeing in N colors" - like "no, color vision is N-d but not in N colors" - but then I thought about it a moment and I think I really like this way of putting it

this method is neat and i want to learn to use it; but seems to me that the study is basically a demonstration that orientation is really important for recognition (like.. yeah!?)

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

Great illusion (for me) www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/c...

Good night, sweet prince of Darkness

I spent an hour this morning procrastinating by writing this one pager "(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia" osf.io/hr6w5/?view_...

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

great piece, makes me think about how much and in what ways this same critique applies to experimental psychology (with all its brain data and brain explanations) and, in particular, to study of consciousness (having just returned from #ASSC28, I can attest to there being *lots* of "brain talk"....)

Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...

Contribute to #NCONSC, the journal of the @theassc.bsky.social, by becoming a reviewer! Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible. To make things simpler, fill in this quick form to register your interest in reviewing for #NCONSC!

I don’t j know about you people, but I’m preparing for #ASSC28 by rereading ‘House of Asterion’ for the 67th time

Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...

Huge if true! #philosophy #PhilPerception theonion.com/study-people...

I agree with this in spirit, yet it seems to me that most of the critiques of an AI reviewer here would also apply to many human reviewers- and also that “reheated leftovers” is an apt description for many scientific publications themselves.

Our latest paper has been published on Neuroscience of Consciousness! Ellia and Tsuchiya 2025: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Retinotopy in the millimeters-wide optic lobe of the octopus brain! This is really amazing

This group did visual receptive field mapping in the octopus occipital lobe and now I'm obsessed with studying the computations involved in cephalopod vision. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Does neural computation feel like something? In our new paper, we explore a paradox: if you replay all the neural activity of a brain—every spike, every synapse—does it recreate conscious experience? 🧠 doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

after so many conversations with imagery people and other "non aphantasic" vision people where i come away feeling like i sound like a complete crank, it's such a relief to see this kind of view held by others

"Did you notice anything unusual?" "No." "Well, something unusual appeared; where do you think it was?" … Our new @elife.bsky.social paper on inattentional blindness finishes this dialogue in 25,000 subjects, with implications for the relation between attention and awareness. See below!

Paper finally published in JEP General! Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007: osf.io/preprints/os... A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery... a 🧵 1/8

New publication in Journal of Vision! 📢 doi.org/10.1167/jov.... Orientation-tuned surround suppression isn't 'hard-wired', but only works when the surround appears to be part of the same 3D surface. Great work Jessy Possel 💪. #neuroskyence @nin-knaw.bsky.social @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social

The tone of the responses from the research team (www.reddit.com/user/LLMRese...) is impressively inhumane and unapologetic, yet I get the feeling it was (mostly) written by a real person. It's chilling.

“Human V4 size predicts crowding distance”. @jankurzawski.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at U Maastricht, led a big effort over a few years. We used individual differences in object recognition and the size of brain maps to identify a perceptual bottleneck. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differences in psychologists’ cognitive traits are associated with scientific divides https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02153-1 New in NHB #metascience #metaresearch

Would you expect the optimal tilt illusion stimulus to be a ring-center of a specific width, against a surround? Has it been tried? @willjharrison.bsky.social

every couple of weeks i get a paper request on ResearchGate from a fake account, not only are they all very obvious and similar, but they always have this 99 (or qq) symbol in the profile - anyone know what it means? @researchgate.bsky.social

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

Nao Tsuchiya - Is My “Red” Your “Red”? (TSVP Talk) youtu.be/ye3C_7KrdcQ?... @YouTube The talk I gave at OIST is uploaded. There are also a bunch of interested talks available in TSVP talk series in their channel!

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

lead the way, Harvard, good luck and god speed

Our tlab MTG guest talk by Andrew Haun on "Seeing Cards Peripherally" youtu.be/FCtwEMfLzYM Though some people seem to believe that people can't see much (some claim anything, especially colors) at the peripheral vision, Andrew's experiments clearly shows that's not! @andrewhaun.bsky.social

1/ We are excited to share our new manuscript. Here, we provide a nanoscale connectome of the human foveal retina. Our dataset represents the first connectome of any complete neural structure in the human nervous system.

this seems like great technical work but pinning "conscious perception" to detection of a target leads to conceptual problems. like.. isn't the subject conscious of the black background, in the stimulus region, at all times? where's the signature for that - is it also being "gated"?

lol

OMG, found the perfect dataset to teach factor analysis! Ratings of 52 personality traits of 2802 pet cats, leading to a 5-factor structure (the 'Feline Five'). doi.org/10.1371/jour... The dataset is freely available here: doi.org/10.4226/78/5...

A short paper in AP&P - from yours truly - on a study of partial-reporting of positions in random dot displays: rdcu.be/eehcH

Imagine measuring 8 neurons in your favorite brain area directly involved in "producing" an experience. If 1=spike, 0=non-spike, and x=dead neuron (i.e. can't spike), would the two neural states below contribute differently to the overall content? (Assume all else is equal) 11010001 and 11x1xxx1

Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps... It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT

i would recommend reading the pieces in reverse order: Gomez-Marin & Seth; then Tononi et al; then "Concerned".

1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's one slice after another. Just this year, my lab at @uwmadison.bsky.social was forced to convert our subject payment system from paper checks recorded in a spreadsheet ledger, to a cloud software system from a contractor ("advarra")

1) couple of fun flu anecdotes: came down with it Saturday, spent Sunday in bed, haven't slept well for 3 nights. last night i'm there waking up for the 9th time, it's 3am, and i'm wondering "why can't I sleep"? the night before it was clear enough why: fever, pain, alternating chills and sweats..

Looks amazing! If I were a student I'd apply immediately.

Check this out and share it widely!! #neuroskyence #Consciousness