Advanced meditation is increasingly a critical test case for neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, philosophy and computational modeling of the mind. In doing so, it’s pushing us to rethink how we both study and understand our own subjective experience and the processes through which... ⤵️

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨 Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache Illustration: Ana Yael. 1/n

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize mpe-project.info/wp-content/u... for 2025 with this contribution: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited for the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP) 2025 Conference next week in Melbourne 24-25 Nov. I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference. sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25! Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇 #philosophy #neuroskyence sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

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

If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow. I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.

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...

completely agree; indeed our recent paper on mind-wandering & mind-blanking confirms task-disengagement / internally-oriented cognition does not simply correspond to increased interoceptive processing www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I was once told: "never try EEG+fMRI!" It was sound advice... but we did it anyway! Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in #EEG to patterns of hyperconnectivity in #fMRI. 🧠🧪💤

Absolutely thrilled to announce that My Three Circles is now available for download on Apple! Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...

It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

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....

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

New paper with @ManuKirberg 💭 Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Free access link authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgsH4sIRv... #neuroskyence

A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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

I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.

Great to work with @franciscorr25.bsky.social and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...

🚨 New article in #NCONSC! Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity @antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

When you mind goes blank! 🧠🧪 Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science! With the fantastic @ademertzi.bsky.social! www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

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...

My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics" [email protected] @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter Strap in! 1/n

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!

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

New preprint modelling suppression depth in binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression with Hugh Wilson, @macshine.bsky.social, & David Alais

New Episode! What is addiction, and how does it show up in everyday habits? Dr. Keanan Joyner (@keananjoyner.bsky.social‬ ) joins Ava & Beth to talk dopamine, disinhibition, and why addiction isn't just about choice. Plus: EEG bias, screen use & science with compassion. 🎧 Links below!

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

@monash-m3cs.bsky.social #neuroskyence

My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...

🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the #emergent dynamical structure in #biophysical neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart; @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Pleased to announce that @sdpbht.bsky.social, @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, Feiyi Wang and I published this work in @pnas.org last month. A particularly intricate project I'm thankful to have been part of! Going from unstructured text to an attribute repr. of decisions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

On this note, together with @hohwy.bsky.social, @corcorana.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social we wrote a chapter on some of the ways phil of science intersects with consciousness studies: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23829/ It doesn't want to be comprehensive, there's much more to explore here

New systematic review just published from our lab, led by @joshkugel.bsky.social ! First review on psychedelic-catalysed insight — central yet under-researched process within PAT. In addition to comprehensively collating all research on the topic, this review provides fascinating new discoveries!

The first paper from my PhD has been published! Insights on Psychedelics: A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Effects www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

The inimitable @cdfrith.bsky.social on the neural basis of consciousness www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great piece by antipodean philosopher extraordinaire @timbayne.bsky.social - including lines such as "the scrotumtightening sea" (though to be fair that's a quote from Joyce)

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

This paper is pretty incredible! Simultaneous invasive recordings of cortex and thalamus *in humans* during a visual awareness task strongly suggest that HO thalamus plays a gating role in awareness. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...