How Science and Music Blurred Politics One Day Back Home | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-go...

oops, i credited the wrong John Horgan as the person who interviewed me. The correct one is @jhorganism.bsky.social. Sorry about that @jhorganism.bsky.social

We've seen a wave of claims about consciousness in AI and animals. But what empirical evidence actually supports them? In a new Neuron paper, we discuss how basic perceptual or cognitive processes are often confounded with markers taken to index consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‪Joseph LeDoux‬ ‪@theamygdaloid.bsky.social‬ Thanks @johnhorgan.bsky.social for the great intro and questions. They were fun to respond to.https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/brain-explorer-rethinks-consciousness

Thanks to all who contributed to the special issue of Cerebral Cortex honoring my career academic.oup.com/cercor/issue...

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Here is the latest on our concerns about IIT as a theory of consciousness - this was long in gestation and has evolved since the preprint. I signed because I was not convinced by the claims of hegemony based on the adversarial collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Advances in neurotechnologies... are transforming neuroscience... A recent meeting highlighted the resulting challenges in global collaboration ... emphasizing the need for ... diagnosing and treating brain disorders." - co-authored by yours truly 🧠📈 🧠💻

i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈

I and three of my songs are in Werner Herzog's new film, Theatre of Thought Film Forum in NYC. Tyler Volk and I played one of our favorite Amygdaloids' Heavy Mental (mental not metal) songs, 'Mind Over Mattter', after the screening last night. Photo by Harold Crooks. Click ALT to expand the pic

For text and images from my Reitrement/75th Birthday see photos on @josephLedoux on Facbook. Here's a teaseer or two. Click on ALT to expand left pic and see Lenny Kaye, Ricard Barone, and Eric Amble, jamming with The Amygdaloids

Back to Bluesky after a hiatus.

Just out in the Nautilus Magazine feature about revelations authors have in the process of writing their books. See three revelations I had writing The Four Realms of Existence fb.me/e/3ghj9tjs2

Great time last night talking bout thr history of The Amygdaloids and playing some of our Heavy MeNtal mind brain songs with Supersmall i.e. Daniela Schiller and Colin Dempsey. Thanks BrainFacts.org

SFN 2023 attendees.  I will be speaking and playing my Heavy MeNtal music (about mind and brain) at the Right Proper Brewing Company.  All welcome.

The Biological Realm of Existence (Part 2 in a series of posts about my book, The Four Realms of Existence)

I have started making tee shirts that reflect themes in my books. For 'Deep History' the slogan was 'No self, No fear'. For the 'Four Realms of Existence, the slogan is

Yesterday was the launch of my new book. It was fun to do. As always, I learned a lot about myself and the world I live in by writing. I spend most days writing one thing or another. I couldn't ask for a better life.

I write blogs for lay readers and clinicians on the Psychology Today site. The first of several on my new book, "The Four Realms of Existence", is now posted. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-go...

Hakwan Lau on The Dissenter! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrWo...

Hello! The journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences will host a symposium on my book, Why Delusions Matter: philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... #philsky Consider participating!

Hot off the presses "finely wrought, thought-provoking feast for the mind.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "eye-opening journey into ... profound mysteries of mind and brain." Daniel L. Schacter " A terrific book!”—Owen Flanagan

I am really thrilled to be a recipient of the 2023 'Music Has Power' Award. More info coming soon.

Advancing Neuroscientific Understanding of Brain-Behavior Relationship: A Conversation with Nicole C. Rust awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-...

johnhorgan.org/cross-check/... Mind-body researchers are bickering over whether a popular theory of consciousness is "pseudoscience." amazingly good science journalism