My book on consciousness at Oxford University Press is now available! It is titled House of Mirrors: The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness. The (open access) pdf can be downloaded for free on Oxford Academic: academic.oup.com/book/62981 Printed copies should be available at the end of July.

People are for some reason wary of Friday the 13th when, obviously, Monday the 13th is much more scary

A Note for Students Interested in Working with Me I love working with graduate students and am always happy to take on new students, however my situation is somewhat unique. I am a philosopher in the cognitive neuroscience program and so don't have a lab. Students in the M.S. program in Cognitive…

My reply to @liadmudrik.bsky.social et al.'s proposal that we should reengineer @neddo.bsky.social's famous phenomenal/access distinction.

new paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: How Seriously Should We Take AI Welfare? Constraints from the Epistemology of Consciousness philpapers.org/rec/LENHSS

Lots of fun to read this very interesting paper and see Consciousness Live! cited in PPR! philpapers.org/rec/LENHSS

Mortalis -Old School Death Metal -1993-1995-ish Those of us who came of age in the 1980s and were young adults in the 1990s usually rest assured that the antics of our younger selves were largely undocumented. But every once in a while someone cleans out a closet, or a finds an old shoe box, or…

Honored to come across this review of my book by the indomitable and indefatigable Benji Kozuch this morning...very cool way to start the day academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...

Final, fancy, official program available for @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2026!! Can't wait to see everyone in Baltimore!! It's been such a blast organizing this program with the wonderful @joshrottman.bsky.social !!! www.socphilpsych.org/pastprograms...

To many of us, myself included, the greatest puzzle in neuroscience is how our brains give rise to our very rich perceptual experience of the world. But studying the neural correlates of rich perception is difficult, so we usually resort to very simple stimuli. 1/3 #neuroskyence

People who care about sports ball: get a life and care about something important...FFS

come witness Chard Caruso complete his skate across America! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ70...

Academic Year 2025-2026 -and another one! My spring semester has ended and the spring semester is about to end as I finish up the spring semester and prepare for my summer teaching. No, that is not a typo! That is three different spring semesters! NYU's spring semester ended in the second week of…

If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

I can't decide whether I should've submitted a longer abstract or a longer portrait photo 😆

SSNAP always ends with a final conference, open to the public--both in person and online. Here are the zoom links for this afternoon, for those who want to connect. Feel free to share widely! Jorge Morales (Northeastern): duke.zoom.us/j/99919297471 Zoe Drayson (UC Davis): duke.zoom.us/j/91565535456

"somewhere in Silicon Valley, a fruit fly is living its second life inside a computer, totally unaware that it is living in the insect Matrix." I cannot begin to tell you how utterly disgusted I am with the state of science reporting at the very few remaining venues with a veneer of respectability.

Great review (though when you see the author thanked, is that a bit like seeing the 'I waive my access' box not checked on a letter of recommendation?) ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/conc...

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...

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...