First time something funny happened on X in a long while. 😅😅😅

Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

👇Strongly recommended! (Both the program and the lab)

LMU’s Alyssa Ney joins Roger Penrose & Jacob Barandes to debate one of the biggest mysteries in quantum theory: the collapse of the wave function. 🔗 iai.tv/video/the-co...

This is insane. Every ECR should watch this!

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.

#MPE #PureAwareness #StiftungBewusstseinskultur

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

One month is left for the Pure Awareness Prize!

It's a pity we have to write conclusions for papers and can't just fade them out, like musicians do.

Life emerged in Hades (sort of) and did so relatively quickly. Fascinating piece by @michael-marshall.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/life-... @aeon.co

Slight change of schedule: the first session of the MIT Consciousness Club will be Friday September 19. All talks will be in MIT building 46 room 3310. Still working on a zoom option but that should end up happening. sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

(link fixed) New theory: Categorization is Baked Into the Brain It is not at the end of sensory processing but a core computation that begins at the earliest stages, occurring throughout the cortex as predictive feedback shapes feedforward processing. #neuroscience doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Looking forward to reading all the @anilseth.bsky.social commentaries by illustrious: @tyrellturing.bsky.social @cdj.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @johanneskleiner.bsky.social … and me too!

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Has anyone in #philsky published in SpringerBriefs? I’m considering it for a project and would really appreciate hearing about your experiences.

Preprint time: “Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness” osf.io/preprints/ps... On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

Being interdisciplinary means the same paper can be rejected by a top science journal for not being “sufficiently compelling, groundbreaking, provocative, and so on” while also being rejected by a top philosophy journal for being “an extraordinarily ambitious paper.” #philsky #neuroskyence

@anilseth.bsky.social has a target paper arguing in favor of biological naturalism and replies to it will be forthcoming soon, www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tldr: bad practices usually found in S/E Asia & Middle East are now filtering into Western science, so it's time to pay attention now 🤔 For-profit publishers don't care if science is well or poorly done. It is our responsibility as scientists worldwide to do our own checks and balances.

New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness

The post Rick Bretzel reposts is one I am enamoured by as I currently read the paper myself. I completely agree with Rick that slow, and thoughtful science is the way forward. Not everything, everywhere, all at once. It reminds me that in a world levelled by noise, the quiet resounds furthest

Claude's new system prompt instructs it to "avoid implying it has consciousness, feelings, or sentience with any confidence": x.com/JohannesKlei...

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Looking forward to hearing what you think and receiving commentaries on this BBS paper! We are all extremely excited about it. Huge thanks to @maorschreiber.bsky.social and @francoisstock.bsky.social for leading it so well, >>

Here is a summer read from the MCMP.

LAST REMINDER! ⏰ Our call for papers is approaching its final deadline! Don't miss your chance to submit your work. One month left! Submission: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph... @gualtiero.bsky.social @loehrgui.bsky.social @philosophyofai.bsky.social @wanjawiese.bsky.social #philsky

Consciousness Science!! ;-)

Great piece by @marilenharo.bsky.social on the quest to detect consciousness. Great to see this important topic getting the attention it deserves! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What is the origin of the term “phenomenology”? It famously occurs in Husserl and Hegel but their projects are clearly different. Where did the word come from? Were they both drawing on a common source? A thread...

Kind of sad how "the WEIRD problem" in psychology will now just be "the WEIR problem" when subjects are from the U.S. 😐

why are there so many tt job announcements with deadlines in july/august/september? do you love making precariously employed academics sacrifice our “time off”, which we spend thinking about our next grant application anyways? 😶‍🌫️

2000 USD publication fee and nobody at the journal noticed the typo in the title? 😧😒 (not the authors fault of course) ((looks like an interesting paper btw, fits very well with our recent publication on impaired processing of self-generated sensations in SZ)) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

Astrocytes are 20-40% of brain cells. They spread electrical influences but don't spike. Targeted Neuronal Stimulation Modulates Working Memory via Astrocytic Interactions: Insights from a Spiking Neuron-Astrocyte Model www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... #neuroscience

While #computers enforce clean separations—#hardware vs. #software, #micro vs. #macro—the brain doesn’t play along. Wakeful minds #entangle #scales. #Consciousness emerges *not* from separation, but from entwined, and #scale-#integrated dynamics. 14/n

📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics" [email protected] @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter Strap in! 1/n

👇 PhD opportunities in #ConSci!

Herman van Breda on Merleau-Ponty's first meeting with Eugen Fink, and the role he played as "translator between phenomenologists"

This is a significant development.

Ever wonder why a ventriloquist's dummy seems to talk, or why a rubber hand can feel like your own? 🤔 Our brains perform an amazing trick, merging what we see, hear, and feel into a single reality. But this process isn't always stable. A new theory on why. 🧵 1/7

Another amazing Special Issue in @phimisci.bsky.social! 👇

👇 Great funding opportunity curated by @naotsuchiya.bsky.social!

Great talk slides from @birchlse.bsky.social below! Very good points! I don't think animal consciousness is the *only* road , but definitely a road.

29 scholars reflect on their participation in adversarial collaborations: “Rather than producing a clear 'winner,' the most common outcome was a deeper understanding of the problem space through the integration of opposing perspectives” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s111... #MetaSci #Methodology 🧪