The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With @daniellametti.com and David Green

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1

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!

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flick…

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work.
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience

Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️

direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

☎️ DM me for more details.

A multimodal transformer-based tool for automatic generation of concreteness ratings across languages - Communications Psychology This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages.

Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today

📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science
💶 They take time and money to collect
⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flicker (Ganzflicker) and sensory deprivation (Ganzfeld...

The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

Beautiful work from @joannakuc.bsky.social @rosmcalpine.bsky.social, @rhizoqualia.bsky.social, Amelia Sellers, & @daniellametti.com 👏🎉.

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649217v1

You feel closer to AI when it exhibits psychological traits similar to your own. 👏🥂

Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper

“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan...

#philsky #langsky #consky

We've gone on holiday by mistake.

I feel like a pig shat in my head!

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We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

More!

The world is made of language.

Terence McKenna

I also see the words fall, they come from up above, as if they were little luminous objects falling from the sky, the language falls on the sacred table, falls on my body, then with me hands, I catch word after word

Maria Sabina as quoted by Allyson Grey

Words are not ... facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world ... so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

J L Austin

I am impressed by the inadequacy of language to express our conscious thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

The map is not the territory ... Words are not the things they represent... To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Alfred Korzybski

the word... overwhelms or at least covers over the delicate and fugitive impressions of our individual consciousness.

Henri Bergson

We believe that when we speak of trees, colours, snows, and flowers, we have knowledge of the things themselves, and yet we possess only metaphors of things which in no way correspond to the original entities.

Friedrich Nietzsche

there lies in words no power to explain the nature of things

Francisco Sanches

whatever we say of God is not true, and what we do not say of Him is true

Meister Eckhart