As previous guests, David Papineau, Alex Kiefer and I interviewed Richard Brown for the 100th episode of Consciousness Live! Available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4iZ...

Oh boy. You're in luck as I've got the link here. It's part of a longer documentary, so Dennett's part starts around the 30 minute mark and it's almost 30 minutes long!

The goal of philosophical writing is not to make one's view clear to the 'nasty, brutish, and short' reviewer 2...that is impossible as one will always be misunderstood. The goal of philosophical writing should be to write in such a way that one will be misunderstood in profound ways.

Counterpoint: Or the massive sucess of actually measuring the latent variables of cognition in the brain 😊. So many examples. Like this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Cognitive Science is the Creationism of the mind" -B.F. Skinner's last keynote at the APA 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0fs...

I survived (just barely)!! onemorebrown.com/2026/04/09/b...

Dropping out of community college did not stop Xiomara Bryan from achieving her dreams. It only solidified her path in becoming who she is today, a cognitive neuroscience master's student at the Graduate Center. Read her story www.gc.cuny.edu/news/she-wen... @gc-cogneuro.bsky.social

Noice! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

what do researchers mean when they say they measure 'consciousness'? do they mean 1) subjective experiences, or 2) just general cognitive capacities? to those who say 1, perhaps they think Alzheimer patients are zombies, or they are actually confusing 1 with 2 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41574278/

went to the dentist to have old filling replaced with modern filling and my face is very numb...only problem is I keep feeling an itch on my lip/chin and when I scratch/rub it I feel nothing. The net result is a persistent itch I can't scratch...feels like itch is there but my chin is not. Not cool!

Nerds: This is basically an amazing open ended RPG set in important scenes in philosophical history. Pedagogy nerds: This is like Reacting (to the Past) simulations but single player. And philosophy. It’s not generic LLM generated but based on lots of research into academic and popular sources.

Last session of the MIT Consciousness Club 04/16! @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social will give a talk on "Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain". More information (including zoom link for those joining online) here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

some April fools www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1h...

Can you spot the odd one out? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAd...

out Reviewer-2'd my Reviewer 2 -new super power unlocked

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

The Unparalleled Majesty of Slo-lene never ceases to amaze me www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrf...

it's cool how you can raise a thinking, feeling being under torturous conditions, then kill it, dismember it, and cook it, and because this is all normal, when you post pictures of the results on here the good people of this website will be like "yes that is perfectly morally fine"

Kenneth Williford Live! Join me for the thrilling conclusion of season 8 of Consciousness Live! with Kenneth Williford, Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, as we discuss the nature of self-consciousness, the role of representation and modeling in theorizing about…

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

Eastern APA tenure track job interview, circa 1997

My course on consciousness is now online: six 90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too. I speak in French (College de France oblige) but slides and subtitles are in English tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3

Vienna had its circle, New York had its Consciousness Collective www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfb...

Sam Coleman Live! Join me for a discussion with Sam Coleman, lecturer at Birkbeck College University of London, as we discuss pan-qualityism, representation, consciousness, and a whole lot more! Sam's work on PhilPapers:

I am extremely proud of what Camilo, Moritz, and the whole team have put together for this year's Models of Consciousness #MoC7. Stellar choice of topics and speakers, and an amazing social programme aimed at true exchange among participants. Come join us! #ConSci Talk application is now open.

Cortical circuits are often thought to be specialized, but the same large-scale activity patterns can arise from different circuit architectures. In other words, different instruments can play the same tune, and the same instrument can sometimes play different tunes. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

youtu.be/gh0YMGuoiiY @petemandik.bsky.social remember this gem? I forgot all about this! ...simpler times

Can't believe this is still up on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI3H...

I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...

Katalin Balog Live! Join me for a discussion with Katalin Balog, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University – Newark, as we discuss the metaphysics of consciousness and mind with a focus on Kati's Dialectical Monism or the view that dualism and physicalism are somehow both correct, illusionism…

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Amazing! eon.systems/updates/embo...

Barbara Gail Montero Live! Join me for a discussions with Barbara Gail Montero, Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, as we discuss themes from book in-progress on physicalism in the real world. Barbara's website:

Susanna Schellenberg Live (again)! Join me for further discussion Susanna Schellenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University & Executive Council Faculty, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), as we continue to…

I'm hiring again!! Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp - to work with me! Deadline: March 20, 2026 More info on PhilJobs

Q. Why was the tree a minimalist? A. Because it was sycamore

I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3u... 👀🔥

Susanna Schellenberg Live! Join me for a discussion with Susanna Schellenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive ScienceDepartment of Philosophy, Rutgers University & Executive Council Faculty, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), as we discuss themes from her…

must not feed the trolls...must not feed the trolls...

Physical science is all about what stuff does. But when we're trying to explain why a system feels, we're not trying to explain its behaviour or the behaviour of its parts. The idea of a physical explanation of consciousness is a category mistake.

Unless one of the successes of science is explaining consciousness...why not give science a chance before dismissing it altogether?

Uncharles is the hero we need

Excited to share our new preprint! A massive (~400k trials) multi-site effort to test "subjective inflation," the influential but under-tested idea that subjective experience in the unattended periphery can be inflated beyond what objective performance would suggest www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The astrocyte reckoning is nigh! www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...