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Sascha Benjamin Fink

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Director of Research at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research @ Erlangen University. The usual: Doing philosophy, paying rent. Opinions are my own.

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Yes. The special
Issue is part if this volume.

15.02.2026 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Structuralism in the science of consciousness. Editorial introduction | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

@andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I differentiate between a wide understanding of structuralism that emphasises the role of structure in determining phenomenal character, and stricter forms where structure is ALL that we can know of (methodological) or there is to (ontic) consciousness.

13.02.2026 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

I am very proud of the special issue on โ€žStructuralism in the Science of Consciousnessโ€œ that @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I edited for @phimisci.bsky.social. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.

13.02.2026 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#PhiMiSci has released a Call for Papers, inviting submissions for a book symposium on Frances Eganโ€™s new book, โ€žDeflating Mental Representationโ€œ. The symposium will be edited by Ken Aizawa, and the submission period runs from November 15, 2025, to April 15, 2026. For more information, see here:

11.11.2025 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

#PhiMiSci recently published a new article: โ€žAttention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory frameworkโ€œ by C. Dicey Jennings & C. Montemayor explores the role of attention in #AI and argues that we should understand these systems as collective agents.

08.12.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kind & Nickel Awarded Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Daily Nous The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Phil...

Wonderful that these two young researchers are being honored. Congratulations! A privilege to know them: Lea was my student aid, while Adrian finished his PhD under my supervision. Outstanding enthusiasm, diligence, and shrewdness in both. Cudos, Lea & Adrian!
dailynous.com/2025/11/26/k...

04.12.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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COMPAIN PROJECT COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and โ€‹Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)

Join us today at 12 CET for the talk by Hadeel Naeem on #AI and the complexity of #pain, the newest entry in our #COMPAIN lecture series:

compain.weebly.com

27.11.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wonderful! Congratulations!

26.11.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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COMPAIN PROJECT COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and โ€‹Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)

Join us all for the ongoing COMPAIN lecture series on the complexity of pain. Todayโ€™s speaker is Saulius Genusias. The whole series and link to the ZOOM link can be found here: compain.weebly.com
(supported by #BMFTR and #NSTC)

20.11.2025 11:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrรผcklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kรผndigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwรคchen. Fรผr Resilienz brauchtโ€™s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

18.11.2025 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 182    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Have a contemplative UNESCO WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY, everyone.

20.11.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications

The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

28.10.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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)

neurocampus.au.dk/display/arti...

13.10.2025 07:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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 โ€žThe Daily Neuronโ€œ. Have a look:

dailyneuron.com/multiple-gen...

29.09.2025 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
PhAI 2025 โ€“ PT-AI & Related Conferences

Join the โ€žPhilosophy of AIโ€œ 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.

26.09.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Philosopher Wins Open Access Award - Daily Nous Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charitรฉ - Universitรคtsmedizin 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.

dailynous.com/2025/09/25/p...

26.09.2025 05:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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-...

24.09.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!)

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

24.09.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

24.09.2025 05:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

17.09.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1682    ๐Ÿ” 859    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 171
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Germany Approves EUโ€™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.

24.08.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Gastronomy as Sensory Engineering Is gastronomy a case of sensory engineering? Is sensory engineering relevant to gastronomy?We argue that gastronomy is a familiar and widespread example of sensory engineering. This has two consequenc...

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 appรฉtit!

17.08.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

12.08.2025 08:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

16.07.2025 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sascha Fink: โ€žNicht Schmerz ist das Interessante, sondern schmerzinduziertes Leidenโ€ Der Erlanger Philosoph Sascha Fink fordert eine neue Sprache fรผr Schmerz, einen neuen Fokus auf Leid und neue Stรคlle fรผr Schweine.

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

16.07.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The programme of the upcoming workshop on conscious AI is up:

emw.flu.cas.cz

#consci

26.05.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Home - The Illusions Index The Illusions Index is a fully searchable curated collection of illusions brought to you by the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience.

Really great resource for all people interested in illusions:

www.illusionsindex.org

22.04.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ohne Transparenz regiert sichโ€™s leichter โ€” besonders ins eigene Tascherl. Deswegen: Halten wirโ€™s a bisserl schwerer. Ist eh noch undurchsichtig genug.

26.03.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Steuerskandal: Wissenschaft hinter Paywalls Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und milliardenschwere Verlage profitieren. Bei MAITHINK X zeigt Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, was man noch tun kann.

Wissenschaftliche Artikel hinter Paywalls und wir haben keinen Zugriff? Ein ziemlicher Skandal, denn schlieรŸlich haben wir fรผr diese Forschung ja mit unseren Steuergeldern bezahlt! Bei MAITHINK X decken wir heute auf, wie milliardenschwere Verlage die Wissenschaft im Wรผrgegriff haben! Schaut rein! ๐Ÿง

23.03.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 984    ๐Ÿ” 310    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
Call for Papers: Philosophy and Chemosenses | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

#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.

11.03.2025 06:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0