in case you missed my discussion with Kati Balog here it is...now I really *really* need to have @keithfrankish.com on to respond! youtu.be/fH9OmyUihSk

sure, Newton's "hypotheses non fingo" is cool, but have you tried philosophy's "hypotheses solum fingo"

This is the future for every party

NNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

fyi: your God is a Transhumanist

Arnold Zuboff Live Join me for a discussion with Arnold Zuboff as we discuss his views on the nature of the self -universalism or the idea that there is just one subject of experience: everyone.

Next up on Consciousness Live! Katalin Balog youtube.com/live/p6h8cJR...

MONKWEH! MONKWEH!

Brown on Animals and their Treatment I am coming up on the 20th anniversary of starting this blog. I started blogging over at Brain in 2007 and then started this blog shortly afterwards, so in has been about 19 years of blogging at this point. Over that time I have written very little about my…

Back to back Consciousness Live! episodes tomorrow Friday Nov 7 first upSusanna Schellenberg at 11 am youtube.com/live/cTij6p3...

😂https://youtube.com/shorts/v0qFwx3nkd0?si=XpCKdNZkTdqjQSnu

I regret to inform you that I have now listened to and enjoyed a Megadeth song...really unfortunate timing but there it is

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

This Friday November 7th I have my first ever double header on Consciousness Live! with the second half of my discussion with Susanna Schellenberg at 11:00 am followed by my regularly scheduled discussion with Barbara Montero at 2 pm (all times giving Eastern). Should be fun!

I am not exactly sure what is happening but from my feed I am assuming that a World Series is the ordering given by the A-theory of time and that a Dodger is one who is an ungrounded member of this series who we may call the Missing Shade of Blue Jay...am I getting this right?

Was just alerted to the fact that Frege was a scorpio and now so much of his work makes sense to me

My goad, why does Sarmat rule so hard?!???

#philosophy #academia #spooksky

Next up on Consciousness Live! -Susanna Schellenberg later today at 2 pm! youtube.com/live/-kzah5Z...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Thank you @jhuartssciences.bsky.social magazine for featuring this work! This project — the largest ever study of inattentional blindness — was led by Makaela Nartker, in collaboration with Howard Egeth and (senior author) @ianbphillips.bsky.social

In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought. 🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...

My version of self-care is finally beating Sword Saint Isshin in Sekeiro

I am not a fan of either of these guys but this is AI, right???? youtu.be/eZvUgQgKjMc?...

Not that I expect anyone to believe me (not sure I do myself!) but I will be talking with Biyu He this Thursday and then Susanna Schellenberg on Friday! youtube.com/live/qeimhzf...

Just finding out about Queen Omega in 2025 is crazy but I am here for it!

In what is surely one of the great all-time coincidences worthy of Douglas Adams, I am once again having to reschedule my discussion with Biyu He...so, third time's the charm?

Videos from the Natural Philosophy Symposium are coming online at last! We start with the opening plenary by David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social: Can There Be a Mathematical Theory of Consciousness? Commentary by Ryan Smith. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsve...

Philosophy-science collaborations as rare chances to adjust the normal focus of the lens- zooming in and out to examine different levels of analysis

Are there any academic philosopher who are also tattoo artists?

This Thursday (for real this time)! youtube.com/live/W-K5dQ9...

That's amazing!! I'm trying something similar with BAMXi (cf. below) although for more mathematically minded folks. The hope is to create a virtual space for all those of us who are scattered around the globe to interact. A sort of virtual coffee room. Using @matrix.org. bsky.app/profile/joha...

An extremely online take onemorebrown.com/consciousnes...

I have had to reschedule my discussion with Biyu He until next Thursday...sorry about that but check back next week!

I suddenly just noticed that I seemed to be in a tense state of readiness while sitting at my desk and reading. "That's weird," I thought right before I noticed that Sekiro was on downstairs with it being in the upper dojo (at dusk)...really changes the whole tone of the paper I was reading!

"Perhaps we evolved to spend most of our lives asleep, in a plant-like vegetal state, waking only when necessary to satisfy essential, vital needs, and then regressing back to our ancestral, primal condition." -I always hated sleeping, now I know why ;)

I feel bad for the ordinary person who looks to purportedly respectable scientific figures for insight into the wonders of the universe, only to be met by absurd speculations that an interstellar comet is alien technology. (It is not.) No better than anti-vax nonsense. imgur.com/gallery/theo...

Next up on Consciousness Live! -Biyu J. He -Thursday Oct. 16 1:30 youtube.com/live/W-K5dQ9...

my take on Sapere Aude

man, I am not good at this, haha: youtube.com/live/LDd1Guh...

new url for today's stream: rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2

Brownapalooza -The Consciousness Live! 100th Episode Spectacular Extravaganza!! I recently realized that I am coming up on the 100th episode of Consciousness Live! The frequency of these has varied from year to year, sometimes having weekly conversations, sometime bi-weekly, or monthly, etc., but…

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

This is a cool paper “chemical synapses have a major role in brain rhythms…post-synaptic neural firing requires rhythmic action of populations of neurons…waves of ion fluctuations in the chemical soup surrounding the neurons are important” #neurosky @pessoabrain.bsky.social @earlkmiller.bsky.social

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 Is consciousness tied to biological brains? Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper! October 23, noon USA eastern #neuroskyence Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Next up on Consciousness Live! Graham Priest -Friday October. 10 12 1 pm eastern Join us as we discuss everything and nothing at all youtube.com/live/-6SsL24...

I was reminded today of the what is still the best introduction that I have read about myself!...maybe there is something to 2012 nostalgia ;0

It’s a shame Jane Goodall has to trend with Stephen Miller, but maybe it’s a good reminder that there are chimpanzees out there with more love and humanity in their hearts than that wretched anal wart could ever hold or produce. R.I.P. good doctor. Thank you for showing us how we’re all connected