New work led by Filippo out on Neurocomputing! W/ @ksks.bsky.social , @kanair.bsky.social and me. Does an agent need to be "aware" of its executed actions to learn to achieve a certain goal? In reinforcement learning, the answer is generally "yes". 1/

very first night in ASSC in Santiago

ASSC26 is started #ASSC26

@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social Congrats!

I've moved and rebuilt my website. New home, fresh look. Come take a look 👇 keisukesuzuki.org

Meet the Program Committee behind this year's Models of Consciousness conference: @joannaszczotka.bsky.social , @ksks.bsky.social , & Robert Prentner! Their expert curation bridges mathematics, neuroscience, & philosophy to advance rigorous consciousness science at hashtag #MoC7

cool paper on computational phenomenology with a unified framework on perceptual hallucinations! 🧠🍄🦄 using deep neural networks to generate testable predictions about altered perceptual phenomenology #NeuroAI 👇👇👇

@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @philcorlett.bsky.social @axc.bsky.social @metzinger.bsky.social

1/ New paper out today in Frontiers in Psychology 🧠 "Beyond the reducing valve: a computational neurophenomenology of altered states via deep neural networks" A unified framework for hallucinations, psychedelic experience & ego dissolution 🧵 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real’ with Nora Petrova, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

A new preprint Cognitive Feelings from Healthy Experience to Psychopathology: An Integrative Review Across Phenomenology, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Computation osf.io/preprints/ps...

New open-access paper out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science Francesco Ellia & Naotsugu Tsuchiya A thread 1/n🧵 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

and another preprint with Michael Timothy Bennett flame-challenge.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

A new preprint t.co/YtK1A9asrJ Beyond the Reducing Valve: Towards a Computational Neurophenomenology of Altered States via Deep Neural Networks

Braitenberg's vehicle (Type 42)

Tasting HUMMUS in Auckland now.

Finally out! @flowlifeox.bsky.social‬ used coupled haptic devices to study joint action between humans and human and AI agents.

Keisuke @ksks.bsky.social and I have been using coupled haptic devices to develop a platform for comparing the experience of embodied interactions with AI agents and with other humans. We have just published our first paper from this project! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

This idea was first empirically validated in Suzuki (@ksks.bsky.social) et al. (2017) with the Hallucination Machine: panoramic DeepDream videos presented in VR reliably induced altered states with similarities to psilocybin experiences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@naotsuchiya.bsky.social CHAINのクラウドファンディングです。土谷さんも応援してください！https://readyfor.jp/projects/chain2025

New preprint with super @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social ! Mathematical approaches to the study of agents osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper! Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects, w/ Paweł Moytka, DavidSchwartzman, me, and @ksks.bsky.social. Link below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ever wonder why a ventriloquist's dummy seems to talk, or why a rubber hand can feel like your own? 🤔 Our brains perform an amazing trick, merging what we see, hear, and feel into a single reality. But this process isn't always stable. A new theory on why. 🧵 1/7

🎉 Paper Published! 🎉 Our paper, "The Japanese version of the Phenomenological Control Scale," has been published in Neuroscience of Consciousness! If you're interested in individual differences in phenomenological control, please check it out!

御茶ノ水女子大学の今泉修さん との論文「現象学的制御尺度（Phenomenological Control Scale）の日本語版開発」がNeuroscience of Consciousness誌に掲載されました！ 現象学的制御の個人差にご興味のある方はぜひご覧ください! DOI: doi.org/10.1093/nc/n... (スレッドで解説します👇) #心理学 #現象学的制御

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Emergence of Goal-Directed Behaviors via Active Inference with Self-Prior arxiv.org/abs/2504.11075

Consider joining us at the ASSC Satellite Event on Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness 🏖️🕶️ 📣https://www.aliusresearch.org/qualius-retreat.html with @aliusresearch.org @qualiari.bsky.social @georgefejer.bsky.social @ksks.bsky.social

I'm involved in organising the upcoming ASSC Satellite Event on Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness. Applications are now open! www.aliusresearch.org/qualius-retr...

Can vagus nerve stimulation change body perception? 🧠⚡️ A new study suggests that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) makes people less susceptible to bodily illusions, enhancing real body awareness. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👇🧵

【1/8】📢 Communications Psychology has published our new paper yesterday! Haruki et al., (2025) "Attentional bias towards smartphone stimuli is associated with decreased interoceptive awareness and increased physiological reactivity" rdcu.be/edYM8

【1/7】📢 Communications Psychologyに、新しい論文がでました！Haruki et al., (2025) "Attentional bias towards smartphonestimuli is associated with decreasedinteroceptive awareness and increasedphysiological reactivity" rdcu.be/edYM8

A new paper was out today. The Vagus Nerve as a Gateway to Body Ownership: taVNS Reduces Susceptibility to a Virtual Version of the Cardiac and Tactile Rubber Hand Illusion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The snow is melting little by little. It feels like spring is on its way!

A view from our building in Hokkaido University

Just welcomed a new postdoc, Alesandoro — making three in total in the lab now! One of them is funded by the JSPS Fellowship (www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fe...). Interested in applying for this scheme to join us? Please feel free to get in touch!

Two papers are accepted!

Thank you to my dear friend Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social for hosting me in snowy Sapporo for a Japanese Winter School. We were junior postdocs together, and now I get to visit him in his amazing lab ✌️

日本バーチャルリアリティ学会誌2024年29 巻2号に、「能動的推論ー心、脳、行動の自由エネルギー原理（ミネルヴァ書房）」の書評を書かせていただきました。 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jvrs...

My talk at the recent "Aware & Alive" ASSC27 satellite symposium is now online... thanks @ksks.bsky.social & Katsunori Miyahara for hosting us in Sapporo ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9W...

We are delighted to announce a symposium delving into alternative approaches to consciousness, as a satellite event of ASSC27 (assc27.net). Explore more at sites.google.com/view/awarean... #AwareAndAlive

Rip Akira Toriyama

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀: 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 by W.C. Wimsatt One of coolest figures in a philosophy paper... And one of most spectacular papers ever! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philosophy

The paper on the computational phenomenology of different types of visual hallucination (with Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social and David Schwartzman) was finally out on Frontiers in Human Neuroscience www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... Short explainer thread below: