Sascha Benjamin Fink

Daily Neuron comments on The Multiple Generator Hypothesis In a recent paper published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Sascha B. Fink, and Morten S. Overgaard propose a paradigm-shifting alternative. They reject the old ass...

A press release by Aarhus University on our paper on the multiple generator hypothesis (Kirkeby-Hinrup, Fink, & Overgaard 2025)

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The Multiple Generator Hypothesis Could Revolutionize Our Search for Consciousness - Daily Neuron The multiple generator hypothesis challenges the idea that only one theory of consciousness can be right, suggesting multiple pathways exist in the brain.

Our article on the multiple generator hypothesis for consciousness has been talke about at „The Daily Neuron“. Have a look:

dailyneuron.com/multiple-gen...

Join the „Philosophy of AI“ Conference in Amsterdam (23-24. October 2025):

www.pt-ai.org/2025/

And join the associated Society for Philosophy of AI while you are at it.

Philosopher Wins Open Access Award - Daily Nous Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. The award is given by Open Library of ...

@philpsy.bsky.social Adrian Kind just won the Open Access Prize by the OLH.

What a great achievement! Congratulations, Adrian! And all of you: Check out his other work.

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Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness A group of scientists are trying to track down how it works in the brain

And Asger got a shout-out by The Economist for this idea already two years ago:

www.economist.com/science-and-...

The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou

What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators?

Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!)

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I just quit academia.edu. Even trying to get such a permission – together with AI-screening of my uploaded articles being ON per default – is a no go. All of my newer stuff is open access anyway and I will move it to philpapers.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Germany Approves EU’s First Psilocybin Access Program Germany has given the green light for two medical facilities to offer psilocybin to adults with treatment-resistant depression.

Forbes reports that Germany established a psilocybin access programme. That is quite big news for psychedelic research and therapy in Europe.

Lovely that this little programmatic article is now out in #Gastronomica!

Many thanks to Brandon Ashby and all member of project SENSOR (Derek Brown, Jack Lyons, & Fiona @macpherson.bsky.social ).

Watch out for more on #SensoryEngineering! Bon appétit!

CoRN 2025 We would like to invite submissions of abstracts to be presented at the 5th Meeting of CoRN to be held August 6-8 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Please submit an abstract no longer than 1800 ch...

What a great conference of the Consciousness Research Network (CORN) in Bangkok! The whole team at Chulalongkorn (under the lead of Chaipat Chunharas and Kanit Mitinunwong Sirichan) were such excellent hosts and organisers. Thank you to all participants for the great discussions and all the fun!

Thank you, Adrian, for posting this. Beside our editors and advisors, we are grateful to all authors that have trusted us with their manuscripts.

Sascha Fink: „Nicht Schmerz ist das Interessante, sondern schmerzinduziertes Leiden” Der Erlanger Philosoph Sascha Fink fordert eine neue Sprache für Schmerz, einen neuen Fokus auf Leid und neue Ställe für Schweine.

Das PHILOSOPHIE MAGAZIN hat dieses kurze Interview publiziert über unser COMPAIN Schmerzprojekt. Humor wurde leider rauseditiert, aber ich danke Nils Althaus (dem Interviewer) herzlich für das tolle Gespräch! www.philomag.de/artikel/sasc...

The programme of the upcoming workshop on conscious AI is up:

emw.flu.cas.cz

#consci

Really great resource for all people interested in illusions:

www.illusionsindex.org

Ohne Transparenz regiert sich’s leichter — besonders ins eigene Tascherl. Deswegen: Halten wir’s a bisserl schwerer. Ist eh noch undurchsichtig genug.

Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und wir haben keinen Zugriff? Ein ziemlicher Skandal, denn schließlich haben wir für diese Forschung ja mit unseren Steuergeldern bezahlt! Bei MAITHINK X decken wir heute auf, wie milliardenschwere Verlage die Wissenschaft im Würgegriff haben! Schaut rein! 🧐

#PhiMiSci announced a Call for Papers for the special issue "Philosophy and Chemosenses", edited by G. Martina & B. Young. It aims to stimulate research on perception, experience, and cognition in the chemosenses, covering established and under-explored questions. Submission deadline: Sept 1, 2025.

#PhiMiSci just announced a Call for Abstracts for a book symposium on “The Brain Abstracted. Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” by Mazviita Chirimuuta, which offers a novel philosophical study of the brain sciences. Deadline: 15th of April 2025.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students perceived as Hamas supporters, Axios reports The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who are perceived as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

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No kant do: Eurovision bars Malta’s entry over title’s similarity to C-word Singer Miriana Conte told to change title and lyrics owing to suggestive play on Maltese word for ‘singing’

As a philosopher, I stand with the Maltese entry to #Eurovision: We should hear Conte’s song “KANT”, no matter how BBC announcers feel. #DivaNOTdown #conte #KantBringMeDown

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The 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced.

The 2025 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize has been announced.

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"

To apply and for more details, please see:

RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

CDU Anfrage zielt auf #Greenpeace, #Foodwatch, #PeTA, #BUND und #OmasgegenRechts. Man munkelt “Schattenstrukturen”. Ziel ist es, Förderungen in Frage zu stellen. — klar, die Gefahr für die Demokratie kommt ja von Omas gegen Rechts, etc….

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Zu den Urnen! Gegen den Rechtsruck.

Fascinating. I would guess that the answer to 50 could be “fire”. Are all the answers known?

Teamassistenz am Lehrstuhl für Theory and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (m/w/d)

Das Centre for Philosophy and AI Research sucht eine Teamassistenz. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 28.02.2025. Wir freuen uns über jede Bewerbung.

www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...

Results The Lens - Free & Open Patent and Scholarly Search The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

If you want to forego commercial science platforms, consider „The Lens“ instead of „Scopus“. (I would be grateful if universities were to make the shift as well when considering promotions.) Our journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (@phimisci.bsky.social ) is indexed there as well.

Why do we dream? 🤔Are they just random neural firings, or do they serve a deeper function? M3CS researcher & lecturer, Dr Manuela Kirberg, joins 'The Briefing' to unpack the science & philosophy of dreaming. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jo3...

This is such a funny complaint from them lmao