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....

This is a core issue that I have with the recent paper on AI and consciousness based on computational functionalist theories. Also the term theory is very inflated nowadays. I am guilty of that myself, but something to think about.

Another preprint! By @zhangchuyin.bsky.social me and @naotsuchiya.bsky.social !

New preprint out! My friend @zhangchuyin.bsky.social is new on Bluesky, he is a brilliant student close to the end of his PhD, please follow him!

Check out our new preprint on theories of #consciousness!

New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n] www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness

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The spirit of Judo is enshrined in its two mottos, that roughly translates into “the maximum effective use of energy” and “mutual benefit” (but please correct me if you know a better translation). According to its founder, Kano Jigoro, Judo means following these principles in every aspect of life.

I wrote a commentary (mostly) disagreeing with the thought-provoking @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social BBS paper about consciousness arising during the transition of animals from sea to land. #consciousness #neuroscience #evolution

Already published the ‘Teorema’ #FreeWill book symposium on Sapolsky’s ‘Determined’, with contributions by @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and others. revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/te...

Our new book chapter is out, looking at self-awareness/personhood in nonhuman animals, and how it may relate to questions of suffering link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

If you are interested in bird behaviour or animal brains, our book has you covered. Available next week, you can order direct from @mitpress.bsky.social (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...) or wherever books are sold. #birds #neuroskyence 🪶🧠🧪🇨🇦 See more on it here: www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/articl...

I'm going to be no fun and suppress the impulse to make fun of that, because it actually raises an interesting point. Can the emergent macroscopic 'whole' reach down and control the otherwise random quantum goings-on within it?

Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself? We address this in our new preprint! @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

This looks good!

#psy3280 Student presentation by Ashreye Chopra on Lugo et al. (2015). Beyond the gaze: Communicating in chronic locked-in syndrome. Brain Injury. youtu.be/KYd2TpkSpG0

Very good point! We started from similar premises in our 2021 paper academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... And a similar claim was made more recently by Trachtenberg and colleagues journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Philosophy of psychiatry and neuroscience of consciousness have a lot in common!

This looks genuinely amazing. My streak of bad luck with conferences in 2025 continues because I won’t be in Kyoto at that time 😭

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures — a Comment article by Fernando E. Rosas, Andrea I. Luppi, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Morten L. Kringelbach, Luiz Pessoa & Federico Turkheimer #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very pleased that my commentary on Jonathan Birch's fantastic "The Edge of Sentience" has finally appeared. @birchlse.bsky.social and I agree on many things, but there was enough distance between our views to make this a productive exchange.

29 scholars reflect on their participation in adversarial collaborations: “Rather than producing a clear 'winner,' the most common outcome was a deeper understanding of the problem space through the integration of opposing perspectives” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #MetaSci #Methodology 🧪

Awesome!

I’m very sad to say that I had to cancel my flight to ASSC. Life is ironic: I had to overcome several challenges to attend this conference but when everything was ready, I experienced a severe heatstroke from which I haven’t recovered yet. Genuinely one of the worst experiences in my life.

Really great!

What makes you ... you? My conversation with the brilliant @chrisduffy.bsky.social, on How to Be a Better Human, out now on @ted.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

If you're interested in consciousness, please check this accepted chapter where I try to confront two major assumptions 1) the NCC is probably some type of pattern of spiking 2) we're close to figuring out the computations underlying consciousness arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485 #consci #assc28 🧵👇

I always thought that star wars episode III was the most important movie of the century. Twenty years later I can say I was right.

So sad I missed this! I would really love to connect with Japan Association for Philosophy of Science! And Sendai is truly beautiful!

🥳 The 2024 Impact Factor & CiteScores are now released. We're pleased to inform you that Neuroscience of Consciousness #NCONSC achieved an Impact Factor of  4.3 (2023 IF 4.1). We are very excited and thankful for our prolific community of consciousness science! #consci @thomasandrillon.bsky.social

Great summary by @faunalytics.bsky.social of our recent paper on welfare risks for cephalopods and decapods faunalytics.org/seafood-anim...

I am annoyed that people are treating the use of em-dashes as diagnostic of AI-generated text. I have always used em-dashes in my writing—to mark off a parenthesis or to signal a break within a sentence—not because I'm an AI, but because I learned how to punctuate.

Italian newspaper ilPost on mind blanking: www.ilpost.it/2025/06/12/v... featuring this recent article on TiCS: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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

Best tweet summary for a paper😂😅

This is a really good article to reflect on the importance of the substrate for consciousness. But what I liked the most, is the initial part on biases in attributing consciousness. Quite fundamental.

New talk from our lab by Kyoko Kusano! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPG4...

Amazing experience! Highly recommended!!

📢 The PhD call for "Mind, Brain, and Human Thought" (track: "Experimental Psychology and Psychophysiology") at the IMT School, Lucca is now open! Join us in the Sleep, Plasticity, and Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab to explore the science of sleep and dreaming. 🧠💤 Apply here 👉 mbht.imtlucca.it

I completely second this. My impression is that we all have crazy stories about this issue. And I think the broader issue is that there’s no respect for people’s quality of life. Not to mention if you diverge a little from the norm and have chronic conditions and traveling is painful by default.

A new installment of our (never ending) journal club on YouTube! youtu.be/z_xmNALhbUs?...

One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair

1/ Causal Supervenience: Supervenience suggests that higher-level brain functions (and hence causality) are determined by lower-level processes (like neurons or molecules). Highlevel functions aren't reducible to the sum of their parts. They emerge from the complex micro-level

will read later, but seems very good.

I think this will make a lot of sense for many people who have experienced chronic pain conditions.

I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences 😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Consciousness Radio Interview : Prof Tom Froese at OIST In this episode of Consciousness Radio, Nao interviewed a cognitive scientist — Dr. Tom Froese, head of the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit at OIST. youtu.be/Mn79Q74A8h8?...

Words are like seas: you must descend deep into the waters to see what lies in the bottom. For those content to gaze there is only beauty and tedium. The truth lies here. How it is accepted is only that: the truth for each man.

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