andrew haun

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

I should’ve just posted the image but I was lazy 😅

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Great illusion (for me)

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YouTube video by motörhead 4 life Ozzy Osbourne - Perry Mason

i mean, just listen to this. this song is so silly, and yet.. good fucking god: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFMQ...

Good night, sweet prince of Darkness

(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia Hosted on the Open Science Framework

I spent an hour this morning procrastinating by writing this one pager "(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia"

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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

great piece, makes me think about how much and in what ways this same critique applies to experimental psychology (with all its brain data and brain explanations) and, in particular, to study of consciousness (having just returned from #ASSC28, I can attest to there being *lots* of "brain talk"....)

Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...

Contribute to #NCONSC, the journal of the @theassc.bsky.social, by becoming a reviewer!

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I don’t j know about you people, but I’m preparing for #ASSC28 by rereading ‘House of Asterion’ for the 67th time

Take care of yourself, heatstroke is serious. Too bad for me I won’t have you for company at Crete..

The unfathomable richness of seeing Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue …

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The unfathomable richness of seeing Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...

Study: People Far Away From You Not Actually Smaller PRINCETON, NJ—According to a groundbreaking new study published Thursday in The Journal Of Natural And Applied Sciences, people who are far away from you are actually not, as once thought, physically ...

Huge if true! #philosophy #PhilPerception theonion.com/study-people...

maybe somewhere in the prosopometamorphopsia literature? that's where 'appearance' could really specifically matter. or something connected to the parvizi FFA stimulation studies?

I mean, I’d like to think my every paper has been fine cuisine judged by thoughtful, fair critics sensitive to nuance and originality. But somehow….

I agree with this in spirit, yet it seems to me that most of the critiques of an AI reviewer here would also apply to many human reviewers- and also that “reheated leftovers” is an apt description for many scientific publications themselves.

Our latest paper has been published on Neuroscience of Consciousness!

Ellia and Tsuchiya 2025: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Retinotopy in the millimeters-wide optic lobe of the octopus brain! This is really amazing

Functional organization of visual responses in the octopus optic lobe Pungor et al. use calcium imaging to measure visually evoked response properties in the cephalopod central nervous system. They demonstrate shared and novel aspects of visual function in the octopus, ...

This group did visual receptive field mapping in the octopus occipital lobe and now I'm obsessed with studying the computations involved in cephalopod vision.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

All we need is a luminance/illumination curve with a few control points, not so much to ask is it?!

Frontiers | Does neural computation feel like something? Artificial neural networks are becoming more advanced and human-like in detail and behavior. The notion that machines mimicking human brain computations migh...

Does neural computation feel like something? In our new paper, we explore a paradox: if you replay all the neural activity of a brain—every spike, every synapse—does it recreate conscious experience?
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after so many conversations with imagery people and other "non aphantasic" vision people where i come away feeling like i sound like a complete crank, it's such a relief to see this kind of view held by others

is a 'frozen physical state' even really a real physical state?

does the argument still work if you're slowing things down infinitesimally close to 'frozen'?

like, maybe there's no experience in a world without time or action, but maybe that's because such a world is nonsense

"Did you notice anything unusual?"

"No."

"Well, something unusual appeared; where do you think it was?"

…

Our new @elife.bsky.social paper on inattentional blindness finishes this dialogue in 25,000 subjects, with implications for the relation between attention and awareness. See below!

No dude, all information is ultimately just a subset of some primordial Information about the Big Bang - "there is nothing new under the sun", get with the program

Wow I thought *I* hated philosophy

Paper finally published in JEP General!

Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007: osf.io/preprints/os...

A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery... a 🧵

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