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Letter to the Editor
Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social
25.06.2025 09:26 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
'Slopaganda' and its potential to upend elections on a knife edge
I'm calling it now. "Slopaganda" is gonna be @merriam-webster.com word of the year
@michalk.bsky.social
lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/apri...
24.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Can you imagine? If that happens I suggest we throw a slopaganda party somewhere near Tesla headquarters :D
25.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This may be of interest to IIT Concerned ppl @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @alanlee.bsky.social et al
16.04.2025 07:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OSF
new preprint available!
Trust from Mistrust: When is Trust Rationally Justified?
Co-authors @michalk.bsky.social @stevebland.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Drawing on insights from Nietzsche's Human All-too-human, we develop a framework for wisely placing trust 🧵
16.04.2025 03:04 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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20.01.2025 10:27 — 👍 362 🔁 165 💬 7 📌 21
Such a cool paper and study! Very excited to see Grimes getting the attention he deserves. One thing I would like to see with this study is more analysis of eye movements. If you are game let me know and I'd happily get our lab involved--we just finished some decision blindness experiments.
17.03.2025 09:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
OSF
Excited to share this new empirical work funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social, replicating & extending the work of John Grimes on change blindness during saccades: osf.io/preprints/ps...
It was a full team effort across two labs, with important contributions from proponents of HOT & IIT
14.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 1
I tend to give small emerging fields the benefit of the doubt. So folks may ask me why I speak out strongly against IIT. I do so because it is neither small nor emerging any more and moved from ideation to scale up essentially without any convincing evidence.
10.03.2025 17:38 — 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
@deanbuono.bsky.social I worry that this pivot to physics will lend plausibility to the idea that Giulio Tononi is like Einstein, IIT is like general relativity, and the critics of IIT are like 100 angry 'establishment' tribunals signing letters against. Astrology is a better analogy imo
12.03.2025 06:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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