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Tomko Settgast

@settgast.bsky.social

PhD student at the University of Würzburg investigating brain-computer interfaces and how to improve them by acknowledging different states of mind 🧠 Hyped about consciousness science, brain criticality, and 4E-cogniton. He/him. Opinions my own.

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In this case we would expect a difference for German speaking philosophers, don't we? :)

03.08.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an interesting thought. Just to be sure I understood you correctly: you assume that philosophers - at least in English speaking countries - do not consider themselves scientists, therefore they do not feel included in "consciousness science"?

03.08.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's interesting. I did not know that. Did these groups also have ideas on how to change that? :)

31.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed a good question. To be fair, I think it is just what I heard the most. But I also like that it stresses that it is its own discipline that can include very different viewpoints on the same subject (e.g. not only neuroscience, psychology etc. but also philosophy and more). :)

30.07.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would refer to it as consciousness science :)

29.07.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome! :)

22.06.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sonja Kleih-Dahms and @settgast.bsky.social from WΓΌrzburg University, discussed the use of brain criticality to predict BCI performance in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

08.06.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for the opportunity to present my work! It was big fun presenting and the others' work was super interesting. :)

08.06.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On my final stage of the journey to the Rocky Mountains: Calgary -> Banff. Cannot wait for #BCI2025. See you soon :)

01.06.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So you can find my poster more easily :) #BCI2025 #BCI

31.05.2025 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so excited to meet familiar and new people and to learn everything new in BCI :) That will be fun I'm sure. See you soon! ✌️ #BCI #BCI2025

31.05.2025 05:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On my way to #BCI2025 presented by @bcisociety.bsky.social. I will present my work on resting-state brain criticality and subsequent BCI use. If you're interested step by my master class presentation on Monday (16:45-17:45, KC210), my poster on Wednesday, or the workshop W19 on Thursday :)

31.05.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would like to be added if this is still possible :)

03.12.2024 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! ✌️

24.11.2024 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh may I be added? :) I am taking in a rather practical point of view on consciousness research but the detection of neural "signs" consciousness (in forms of mental states) are the most important part of my work :)

24.11.2024 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would like to be added :) even though I am coming from a more "applied" point of view, my research is heavily influenced by basic research in neuroscience, and I like to raise its importance in my field :)

24.11.2024 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is a starter pack with research tools for cognitive (neuro)science! This is still very preliminary, so please repost widely and let me know what else to add, so we can rebuild a helpful community over here!

22.11.2024 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If possible I would like to be added too:) thanks for taking care of that!

21.10.2024 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#neuroskyence #complexity #psychscisky

07.10.2024 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Although this is only an initial investigation, the neural correlates found may prove to be useful predictors of BCI use in healthy subjects in the future - an area of research that has been largely neglected for P300-based BCIs.

07.10.2024 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brain Criticality and its Relation to BCI Operation | Request PDF Request PDF | Brain Criticality and its Relation to BCI Operation | This paper reviews existing results that may link brain criticality and BCI operation in healthy subjects and those diagnosed with.....

The increase in brain criticality prior to improved BCI performance is well in line with what would be expected based on theory and supports our hypothesis of its potential relevance for BCI use that we made earlier this year: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

07.10.2024 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) Resting-State Brain Criticality and Performance with P300-based BCIs PDF | Here we present correlations between criticality-related measures calculated from resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) recordings and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

Paper alert: In this conference paper, we show correlations between two measures thought to reflect brain criticality, calculated from resting-state EEG measures and the subsequent BCI performance with a visual P300-based BCIs in healthy participants.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

07.10.2024 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tbh this is a current one. More generally: where and how does "mind" emerge and how to detect that :) and many more πŸ˜πŸ™ˆ

18.09.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What/does something happen(s) to consciousness in neural disorders and how to detect that?

18.09.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Upper part of my poster for the Graz BCI conference showing the title.

Upper part of my poster for the Graz BCI conference showing the title.

Hi everyone! When any of you are attending the Graz BCI conference please come around my poster (no.32) on Thursday and talk with me about brain criticality and its potential role in BCI use. I'd be happy to discuss it! #BCI #GrazBCI

09.09.2024 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dem kann ich nur zustimmen. Leider fehlt es zumeist an Raum und Zeit in den Curricula der naturwissenschaftlichen StudiengΓ€nge metaphysische Annahmen zu vermitteln und zu diskutieren. Ich versuche es dann immer dann unterzubringen wo es gerade passt πŸ˜πŸ™ˆ

05.07.2024 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ich glaube - als Naturwissenschaftler sprechend - es ist wichtig, erst einmal zu erkennen, dass viele ontologische Theorien ΓΌberhaupt metaphysisch sind. Als Literatur dafΓΌr kann ich "The Blind Spot" von Frank, Gleiser & Thompson (2024) wirklich empfehlen.

05.07.2024 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. β˜ΊοΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’–

14.06.2024 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 44189    πŸ” 17270    πŸ’¬ 1332    πŸ“Œ 757

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So for the rest of June, I ask you to commit to using BlueSky before the mess called X.

Please retweet and tag people!

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07.06.2024 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 173    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9

I would like to be added to the list. Although I am rather working on BCI than HCI and more of a reader than a contributor, it could still be interesting to me :)

02.05.2024 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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