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...

ICYMI: youtube.com/live/JnTc6Aj...

GLORB! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvYn...

🤘 youtube.com/shorts/Tvwos...

Biyu He Live! Join me for a discussion with Biyu He, a cognitive neuroscientist at New York University, as we discuss large-scale brain dynamics and consciousness, plus a whole lot of other stuff as well! Biyu's website: Biyu's lab:

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Surprised (not surprised) in a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy search for Hypatia (philosopher/mathematician) in the 14 pages of results there is only one result on page 10 for the actual person (not journal/book titles refs). And that’s to use her murder as context of an ancient bloke’s plight.

2 new papers on awareness and working memory "Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report" academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @theassc.bsky.social @matthiasmichel.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social (1)

Graham Priest Live! Join me for a discussion with Graham Priest, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as we discuss all things logic. Graham's website:

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? Almost always we average responses thus equating response variability with noise. Well, we shouldn't because variability is also signal, not noise to be entirely discarded. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Bas van Fraassen has won the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

SEP Entry on Higher-Order Theories Gets Worse I am currently very, very busy, and I am not just talking about my attempt to get the true secret ending in my NG+ play through of Black Myth: Wukong, or how many celestial ribbons I need to upgrade my gear 😉 But seriously things are pretty hectic for…

"Hume's Treatise is the foundational document of cognitive science: It made explicit, for the first time, the project of constructing an empirical psychology on the basis of the representational theory of mind; in effect, on the basis of the Theory of Ideas." -J. Fodor 👏👏🔥🔥🔥🥰😍🤩

people sure love to complain that it is hard to say what 'physical' means as a way of criticizing physicalism but doesn't the same problem plague 'non-physical' and dualism?

really disappointed in the APA, but then again why should they care? I stopped being a member long ago...if only there were a REAL APA...I'd probably not be a member of that either

I am suddenly realizing how nobody at all is talking about the Turing Test anymore, since, I suppose, we all just witnessed it being passed at scale?

New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

Brian Cutter Live! Join me for a discussion with Brian Cutter, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, as we discuss his argument from psychophysical harmony for the existence of God, and many other things! Brian's website

shit's about to get real www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd8i...

Bence Nanay Live! Join me for the kickoff of Season 8 of the podcast and a discussion with Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor (ZAPBOF), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp and Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, as we…

this paper on why biological computation is special (& necessary for consciousness) by @jaanaru.bsky.social, is as usual, very good & maybe the best one yet on the topic but why doesn't the argument apply to e.g. motor control too? 1/ linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0149763425005251

The post that started the Shombie Wars...simpler times onemorebrown.com/2008/04/07/n...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I am reminded that this still exists...from back in 2011 for the Online Consciousness Conference...In my defense, what would *you* do if *you* found out you had access to a green screen and video recording studio? youtube.com/shorts/Rv1iF...

meanwhile www.youtube.com/watch?v=b54g...

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 years in the making, great to see this important new study (actually many studies) now preprinted. 👏🏼👏🏼 @peterlush.bsky.social

Maja Spener Live! Join me for a discussion with Maja Spener, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, for the season 7 finale as we do a deep dive into the reliability of introspection for the mind sciences. Maja website: NDPR review of Maja's book:

@philipgoff.bsky.social strikes (out) again! youtu.be/7bk0XASRfTE

Modus Pownage

wait, wut??

My first podcast experience! 😅 Feedback welcome! :-) youtu.be/p9_i3gSMGhY

Timing is everything Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

Mind Chat is back! Join us live at 4.30pm GMT tomorrow when @philipgoff.bsky.social & I talk to host of Closer to Truth and creator of the Landscape of Consciousness project, Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Landscape format youtube.com/live/2o7RvGV... Portrait format (for phones) youtube.com/live/wzVGSzV...

Andrei Buckareff Live! Join me for a discussion with Andrei Buckareff, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist University, as we discuss skateboarding, pantheism, and more! This episode was recorded live as part of LaGuardia Community College's…

MIND CHAT IS BACK!!!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/live/wzVGSzV...

In case you missed the season 8 finale of Consciousness Live! with Kenneth Williford here it is...probably won't start the next season until May 2026 due to impending total swampage but stay tuned for announcements and stuff at some point youtube.com/live/nqo2n2t...

Bernie still ahead of the rest, but they better get on this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qS...

The Thankful Every once in a while I get an idea for a short story. Usually they pop in and out rather quickly and I just let them go but I recently decided to jot them down when they come. I don't think I'm a great writer, and definitely not a great story teller, but it is fun to write badly in…

Recording of a talk on "Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-human Animals" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz...) at the University of Michigan. Based on the recent BBS paper on sensory horizons and consciousness w/ @smfleming.bsky.social.

We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...

I decided to start a new YouTube channel just for consciousness Live! and will be re-uploading past discussions there until I can host live discussions on that channel. Here is the very first one, from all the way back in 2018 with @hakwan.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZbj...

This Friday is the Season 8 finale of Consciousness Live! with Kenneth Williford!