Ishan Singhal

A big thank you to @anilseth.bsky.social for supporting this workshop via an ERC grant (CONSCIOUS), and to both BAMΞ and AMCS for invaluable infrastructural support :D

The workshop is co-organized by @robertchisciure.bsky.social @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social @kathrynnave.bsky.social @quantummoxie.bsky.social @johanneskleiner.bsky.social and me!

We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇

This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)

Applications are now open!

www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

Officially out in the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences:

"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social

Philosophical debates often resemble trench warfare: both sides are so busy defending their positions that they not only fail to notice the battle ended a long time ago, but also that the points they were defending are now so riddled with holes that they are no longer worth fighting for

Dynamics of mental imagery Phenomenology of mental imagery can reveal the structure of underlying mental representations, yet progress has been limited because of its private na…

hi, been following your work on this since the non-committment in imagery paper, love it all! For the step-size questions, perhaps something of relevance here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Are you into VR and cognitive rehab? Looking for a research technician to work with me in Pamplona @unav.edu on developing a multimodal XR system for stroke rehab (VYSIUM HEALTH).

This project is financed by the Government of Navarra and FEDER.

Apply here or DM me!

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

I feel bad for Panpsychism. Too many of its contemporary proponents give it a bad name as a lazy rhetoric humping polemic proposal. I sometimes wonder what would happen if a good philosopher picked it up and brought this idea into the 21st century.

You can really hear the silence.

Absolutely brilliant! #consci

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

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” 🧵

A wrinkle in and of time: Contraction of felt duration with a single perceptual switch The way we represent and perceive time has crucial implications for studying temporality in conscious experience. Contrasting positions posit that tem…

Really cool work! Liked the discussion on the issue of differentiating perception vs. recollection of time. A way out is via a phenomenal contrast. We did this to show that time contraction was due to perceptual boundaries and not memory (specific to our study) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Is this an in-person event that is open for attendance? I'm down in Brighton. Would be interested in knowing if I can attend.

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Is someone running a study to see how consciousness researchers react to crazy emails about AI, metaphysics, and or consciousness? I have run out of explanations for why I am getting so many random emails with manuscripts on this topic asking for feedback.

It is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short.

bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de

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New preprint!

"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"

(by Li, Hammond, & me)

link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary

Identification of brain-like complex information architectures in embryonic tissue of Xenopus laevis organoids Understanding how populations of cells collectively coordinate activity to produce the complex structures and behaviors that characterize multicellular organisms, and which coordinated activities, ...

New paper!
This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title.
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇

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There is no need to simulate multiple alternatives according to an internal model and then select one in order to navigate the environment. F&M articulate their view of perceptual consciousness in terms of this kind of implicit model-based planning, which we think does not exist. (4/7)

Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates - Nature Neuroscience The face reveals more than just emotion. Cazettes, Reato and colleagues show that subtle facial movements reveal hidden cognitive states, reflecting the brain’s ongoing computations and offering a noninvasive window into unexpressed thoughts and decisions.

🐭 Mouse faces reveal hidden thoughts

Researchers found that subtle facial expressions in mice reflect not only their current decisions but also unexpressed cognitive states, offering a new window into brain activity.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪

What does postdiction show about the speed of consciousness? In this forth. piece in BBS, I respond to @smfleming.bsky.social + @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's claim that postdiction shows consciousness is slow -- too slow for its purpose to be online action guidance. 1/3 philpapers.org/rec/PHIPAT-14

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