looking back on Chalmer's famous, "Facing up to the problem of consciousness" (consc.net/papers/facin...)
If we examine the landscape of c-sci today, it appears to be largely the same, except theories that actually address consciousness are considered pseudoscience.
25.04.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“It is common to see a paper on consciousness begin with... the mystery of consciousness... the topic is clearly the hard problem... in the second half of the paper,... the author’s own theory is outlined... this theory is [one] of reportability, of introspective access, or whatever.”
25.04.2025 11:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1
I love this passage from Merleau-Ponty (quoted by Sarah Bakewell), on being free through being you:
16.04.2025 09:26 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 1
I know some people instinctively find it distasteful to accept Trump voters who are having doubts, but emotionally it can actually feel a lot better than being mad all the time at them, and practically it is obviously necessary.
It is in fact a main goal of all the noise making and protests.
13.04.2025 14:14 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
from what i’ve seen, it typically refers to a specific subfield, centered around DMF/Hopf/Wilsan-Cowan/Stefanescu-Jirsa/etc models of whole-brain dynamics
the idea being for conditions like epilepsy/coma, in-silico “surgeries” can be done as proof-of-concept
09.04.2025 09:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who could have predicted it? Unless we stand up and say no, right now, the authoritarian will just keep coming and unlawfully destroy our civil society. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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Cognitive scientists who work across levels of analysis should be called Marr's Rovers
06.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 76 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
🌟🧠The MESEC Winter School 2025 was a huge success!🧠🌟
A week filled with insightful talks, hands-on tutorials, and incredible discussions on consciousness.
We are grateful for the tutors & participants who made it so special. Until next time!🥳
#MESEC @ibroorg.bsky.social
04.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
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The final batch of #MoC5 recordings is now online! 🥳
A huge thank you to all speakers! 🙏
#consci
27.11.2024 17:37 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Projects for 2025 entry – UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation
PhD project!
For those interested in NeuroAI: "Using large scale neural network models to bridge the translational gap from animal models to human insights in autism spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders"
Apply here: www.ai4biomed.io/research/pro...
26.11.2024 18:56 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
@qualiastructure.bsky.social and @naotsuchiya.bsky.social are now on BlueSky, I recommend to follow if you’re interested in consciousness research and the qualia structure project specifically!
24.11.2024 13:15 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
was hoping to find this! thank you for sharing <3
23.11.2024 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
hi everyone! im interested in complex systems approaches to neuro & psychedelic research. previously @ centre for eudaimonia & human flourishing, MSc maastricht university. right now, searching for PhD positions & upping my skills in preparation for more ML/AI research. 🧠
22.09.2023 17:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
29th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Santiago de Chile June 30-July 3 #ASSC29
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre aims to discover the fundamental principles of how the brain drives behaviour. Based at UCL, funded by Gatsby and Wellcome. https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/
https://unireps.org
Discover why, when and how distinct learning processes yield similar representations, and the degree to which these can be unified.
•PhD student @ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby 🧠💻
•Masters Theoretical Physics UoM|UCLA🪐
•Intern @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social|
@SapienzaRoma | @CERN | @EPFL
https://linktr.ee/Clementine_Domine
Consultant Clinical Academic studying human movement disorders @ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/ and Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences.
Computational Movement Disorders Lab
https://sadnickalab.org
Funded by @ wellcome.org/
Research Physiotherapist interested in hyperkinetic movement disorders
PhD Student @ Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
I study stochastic processes and their application to modelling neuronal dynamics.
UCL NeuroAI fosters collaboration between our neuroscience and AI communities. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/ucl-neuroai
Incoming postdoc @ProbAIHub, hosted @warwickstats @Princeton @orfe. PhD @GatsbyUCL. Works on universality and ML theory. He/him. 🌈
kevinhanhuang.page
London-based neuroscientist 🧠 & research software engineer 💻 developing free and open-source tools for studying brains & behaviour, @neuroinformatics.dev @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social at UCL.
Committed to open, collaborative, and reproducible science.
Lecturer @GatsbyUCL; Previously Applied Scientist @AmazonResearch; PhD @MPI-IS @UniTuebingen
Senior Research Fellow @ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby & sainsburywellcome.org
{learning, representations, structure} in 🧠💭🤖
my work 🤓: eringrant.github.io
not active: sigmoid.social/@eringrant @eringrant@sigmoid.social, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
Computational neuroscience PhD student @Gatsby unit, UCL
Postdoc with Andrew Saxe at the Gatsby unit.
Head Research Engineer at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL. I lead @neuroinformatics.dev & @brainglobe.info. We build open source software for neuroscience and machine learning.
Runner, cyclist, sandwich enthusiast.
https://adamltyson.com
Assistant Professor Chalmers and Göteborg University 🌱 ML + CogSci + StatPhys 🔎 stefsmlab.github.io 🌐
Systems neuro PhD student at SWC/The Crick (UCL, London). Cell types and decision-making.
Znamenskiy lab, Mrsic-Flogel lab
Researcher in statistical physics and machine learning @UCL Gatsby | Previously @EPFL | Physics PhD @UnivParisSaclay | BCG The Future Makers | ASP XI
https://antonioscl.github.io/
