INTERSTELLAR was released 11 years ago today. The 9th feature film of director Christopher Nolan, and one of the biggest science fiction epics of the 21st century, the story of how it was made will have you wondering at our place in the stars… 1/50

Thank you. An absolute honour and a huge pleasure too 🎃👇🏽

"Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software" | Clip of an interview with @anilseth.bsky.social and Michael Levin on Theories Of Everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZl...

And it was indeed a huge honour - and a great pleasure too. Thank you @humanists.uk and @andrewcopson.bsky.social 🎃🙏🏽👇🏽

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1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?” www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻

Good piece in @nature.com by Elizabeth Gibney on the @royalsociety.org Turing Test anniversary event. How did I not clock that Laurence Fishburne was in the crowd?? @garymarcus.bsky.social clear did :-) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

**Reminder of presentation+discussion this Thursday** Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social will elucidate if/how consciousness is related to biological brains. Join the discussion.

Note that all 5 hours worth of the @royalsociety.org 's recent symposium, "Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test," with Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, can be found on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK... (I'm gradually making my way through it...) #AI #science

#Hemispherotomy is a surgical treatment for #epilepsy by disconnecting a portion of the #cortex. Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, @anilseth.bsky.social, Marcello Massimini &co show that the isolated cortex has #EEG patterns resembling deep #sleep or #anesthesia @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3J9ci8X

Thanks @plosbiology.org - but this project was led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favoro, & Marcello Massimini - I was delighted to play a minor role in what I think is a terrific study 👇🏽

1/ "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" - out now in @plosbiology.org, led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, & Marcello Massimini. 🧠

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sleep is still a bit of a mystery! Beautiful article from @vyazovskiy.bsky.social! aeon.co/essays/two-b...

It's an honour to be speaking, in a few minutes, at the memorial symposium for the greatly missed, and the simply great, Daniel Dennett provost.tufts.edu/events/denne...

We can explain the universe — but not consciousness. Anil Seth on why the hardest mystery in science is us. 🎙 Dark Matter, Bright Minds | Kindle Cast @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness #darkmatterbrightminds #kindlecast

Reality doesn’t care about your brain. But your experience of it does. Anil Seth on dreams, consciousness, and how your brain creates entire worlds. 🎙 Dark Matter, Bright Minds | Kindle Cast @anilseth.bsky.social #consciousness #darkmatterbrightminds #kindlecast #reality

If you're in/around Sussex Uni, this Weds (15th Oct, 2pm-5pm) we have our annual research symposium for the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. More details and registration link here (in person only): www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

Do I really exist? /listen to this podcast and wait for the answer/

A few highlights from six days in magical Bhutan 🇧🇹

My commentary on Anil Seth's forthcoming BBS target article defending biological naturalism has been accepted. It's entitled "The Neurobiophysical Substrate of Consciousness": 1/

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

Looking forward to this! Thank you @pessoabrain.bsky.social for the invitation 🙏🏽👇🏽

Great summary- thanks Philip!

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Wonderful news and well deserved! Congrats Guillaume 👏🏼

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

Philosopher John Searle has died.

Could AI be, or become, conscious? Professor Anil Seth explores the mystery of consciousness in our Voltaire Lecture 2025. 31 October in London. Book now humanists.uk/events/volta...

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Finally published: “Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨

Via @keithfrankish.bsky.social

A poem about Dickie Bird by Ian McMillan which he read out on BBC Radio Sheffield earlier today: It's the final over Of the final test And Time is bowling The final ball; And the innings that stretched To 92 Will end just here 'Cos it's umpire's call.

New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in @pnas.org - led by @frosas.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/ @andrealuppi.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, me, & Dan Bor. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Neuromatch Academy 2026 is coming! ✅ Hands-on projects ✅ Global community ✅ Affordable fees Applications open Feb 2026. Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/ #ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI

Chatting with David Rutledge on ABC's "The Philosopher's Zone" about infant consciousness... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

My Mum's "Other Lives" obituary is in the print edition of today's @theguardian.com. I miss her terribly. The online version is here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'm delighted happy to feature on the homepage of Die Zeit @diezeit.bsky.social today, for the first in a new feature of theirs, called "Just One Question", launching across print, online, audio, video, & newsletter www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...

Our VR-based study investigating how the complexity of sensorimotor coupling rules affects visual awareness of 3D objects is now published in Consciousness & Cognition: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 👁️🪩 #VirtualReality with: D. Schwartzman, @anilseth.bsky.social @ksks.bsky.social 🎉

I'm delighted to be heading back to Oxford today, to talk about The Mystery of Consciousness with Jonny Thomson @philosophyminis.bsky.social @bigthink.com, 7pm at The North Wall Cultural Centre www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/big...

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...

A Kantian take on Integrated Information Theory - newly published in Philosophical Explorations by our very own @robertchisciure.bsky.social - and its #OpenAccess too 🎉👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13869795.2025.2550245

Excellent opportunity here to work with one of the best in the business 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Longitudinal characterization of electroencephalography features in consciousness recovery following severe traumatic brain injury: a case series study in male patients academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... #consciousness 🧠🧪💤

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