Consciousness - tlab

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure Paper presentation on Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system by Kox et al. (2014)

Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system by Kox et al. (2014) youtu.be/qKBfGTlIi_s?... via @YouTube This is an interesting paper - basis of the Wim Hof method.

Preprint: Consciousness and Qualia — How Do Consciousness and Symbols Relate? osf.io/preprints/ps... a book chapter to appear in "Symbol Emergence Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discussion about Cognition, Language and Society" edited by Tadahiro Taniguchi, Springer

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure Paper Presentation on Beyond the gaze: Communicating in Chronic Locked in Syndrome by Lugo et al

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Student presentation by Ashreye Chopra on Lugo et al. (2015). Beyond the gaze: Communicating in chronic locked-in syndrome. Brain Injury. youtu.be/KYd2TpkSpG0

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure [informal journal club] Intrinsic meaning, meaning, perception and matching @Oist, Froese lab

[informal journal club] Intrinsic meaning, meaning, perception and matching @Oist, Froese lab @DrTomFroese youtu.be/OnfoYV74LTk?... via @YouTube

Original paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.21111 by William G. P. Mayner, Bjørn Erik Juel, Giulio Tononi

👇 Great funding opportunity curated by @naotsuchiya.bsky.social!

We expect individual and team participation by young, female, and non-Japanese researchers in the open call for research.　Please spread the word to those who might be interested!

"... We expect participation from researchers in the humanities and social sciences (especially those
dealing with ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise in consciousness research, linguistics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, linguistics, art, etc.)

3) relations between the unconscious and consciousness without focusing on any particular qualia, and research that targets changes in qualia structure accompanying changes in self-consciousness and consciousness levels.

Expected research examples: those dealing with 1) subjects and methods that planned research does not deal with,
2) qualia other than perception and emotion but uses a structural approach

As in the previous call for proposals, we do not expect to receive conventional consciousness research (so-called NCC-type research), but rather Qualia-focused or structural approach-focused research.

This time, the quota is 5 million (JPY) x 7, 3 million x 10, and 1.5 million x 10. The 1.5 million quota was created to make it easier to submit as a cost-effective humanities/individual research project.

Page for downloading Application Procedures and Application Form for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research-KAKENHI- for FY2026（Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas（A）（Publicly Offered Resear...

Qualia Structure Open Call for Publicly Offered Research (2nd phase. Deadline 9/17)!

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"I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense"

(Darwin's autobiography, p. 13),

Fink 2016 Frontiers "NCC-theories more like toothbrushes than anything else: everybody has their own, and one hardly wants to use someone else's"
- cited by Alex Gomez-Marin at TSC Barcelona. One of the high points in the conference!

Top left: Flies were dorsally fixed to a rod and placed on an air-supported ball. Isoflurane was administered through a rubber hose. Top right: Local field potentials (LFPs) are obtained during wakefulness and anesthesia using linear multi-electrode arrays inserted laterally into the fly brain. Bottom left: At a given channel and time-series feature, they compute feature values for every epoch from each fly (each entry in the image plot corresponds to a scaled feature value from one epoch). Bottom right: As a weaker form of generalization, the authors also assess within-fly effect direction consistency by finding, for each wake epoch, the proportion of anesthesia epochs which have greater or lesser feature values.

Awake, asleep or drugged? This #PreRegistered study in flies by @naotsuchiya.bsky.social &co uses a data-driven approach to search for markers that can determine the individual performance of time-series features in distinguishing levels of #consciousness @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44xzIeE

Third Annual Noetic Sciences Research Prize to Explore Conscious AI | IONS The $100,000 Linda G. O’Bryant Prize will recognize new research frameworks for designing and testing conscious artificial intelligence.

100,000$ prize!
IONS proudly announces the third annual Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. "how to design, develop, and assess artificial intelligence systems that may demonstrate actual conscious awareness noetic.org/blog/third-a...

Wakefulness can be distinguished from general anesthesia and sleep in flies using a massive library of univariate time series analyses Varying levels of consciousness correlate with multiple time-series features. This pre-registered study uses a data-driven approach to search for markers that can determine the individual performance ...

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Very happy to see PLoS Bio paper accepted in Stage 2 registered report!
Title: Wakefulness can be distinguished from general anesthesia and sleep in flies using a massive library of univariate time series analyses
Leung, Mahmoud, Jeans, Fulcher, van Swinderen, Tsuchiya

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure The Future of Psychiatry: Exploring Psychosis Biotypes with Jesse Ring

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Student presentation by Jesse Ring on Clementz et al. (2016). Identification of Distinct Psychosis Biotypes Using Brain-Based Biomarkers. American Journal of Psychiatry. youtu.be/Ct0QOy88VDE via
@YouTube

㊗️ our paper was finally accepted by Nature Communications! Data & paper are already accessible from here:

DREAM: A Dream EEG and Mentation database osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks all coauthors for contributing the data! It was a really long journey to arrive here...

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure Paper Presentation 'Failure to See Money on a Tree' by Hyman, Sarb, and Wise Swanson 2014 By Harleen

Paper Presentation 'Failure to See Money on a Tree' by Hyman, Sarb, and and Wise Swanson 2014 By Harleen youtu.be/76u35At6ExA?... via
@YouTube

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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Three arguments against metaphysical structuralism in consciousness research - Synthese Phenomenal structuralism is the view that understanding consciousness requires describing its relational and structural properties, a perspective that can have implications for both explaining why exp...

Here is my paper on phenomenal structuralism and its (metaphysical) limits: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm grateful to @qualiastructure.bsky.social for organizing the summer school that inspired this work

Any feedback welcome!

Our latest paper has been published on Neuroscience of Consciousness!

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

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure The Qualia Structure paradigm & the Quantum Qualia hypothesis @ CatTheory Workshop 2023 Apr16 Oxford

In this video, Nao Tsuchiya talks more in-depth about the paper (unpublished at the time) and connects it with the @qualiastructure.bsky.social approach.

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thanks @cam-signorelli.bsky.social for organizing this event!

Copenhagen (16 June 2025, 14:00-18:15)
Free event with limited spots (Deadline 7 June)
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Models of experience and implications for AI
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How much can children see and report about their experience of a brief glance at a natural scene? osf.io/preprints/ps... via @qualiastructure.bsky.social

Beyond accommodation: on the structural turn in computational functionalist theories of consciousness url:https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf014/8159763 Francesco Ellia , Naotsugu Tsuchiya

thanks @cam-signorelli.bsky.social for organizing this event!

Copenhagen (16 June 2025, 14:00-18:15)
Free event with limited spots (Deadline 7 June)
eventsignup.ku.dk/workshopmode...

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Home The INTREPID Symposium: Unlocking Consciousness through Adversarial Collaborations Date: July 10-11, 2025Location: Atlantis Aquila Hotel, Heraklion, Greece As INTREPID nears its finale, we are brin…

Are you coming to #ASSC_2025? If so, you might want to stick around for a couple more days for this symposium where the results of the INTERPID adversarial collaboration will be revealed! (+some meta-questions on the adversarial collaboration approach will be discussed)

arc-intrepid.com/symposium/

[Latest commentary paper from Q-str] Beyond Accommodation: on the Structural Turn in Computational Functionalist Theories of Consciousness By
@FE_qualia

osf.io/preprints/ps... To be published in Neuroscience of Consciosness.