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…

To combat the heresy spread at the annual associationist meeting, the Association Association (philevents.org/event/show/1...), I propose a yearly meeting of Fodorians and other nativist thinkers. Naturally, we shall be called the Language of Thought League of Thinkers (the "LoT LoT").

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90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too.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…

The process has always been the core of what matters. Somehow, many academics seem to have forgot that we are not purveyors of content or sellers of ideas. I feel like some Greek and Aramaic philosophers might have made points like that. But you don’t have to buy their arguments to get the point…

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