Benjamin Stucky

No, chatbots are not scientists I can’t believe I need to write this, but apparently, I do. Many journals and preprint sites are now overwhelmed with chatbot-generated submissions. This is bad, but at least it gets characterized …

No, chatbots are not scientists
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A new optical.illusion was recently discovered: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Upon fixation the dots turn purple:

this sounds great

To Save Nature, Make It Sacred | NOEMA Beyond science and policy, the key to protecting Earth’s most vulnerable ecosystems may lie in the human capacity to treat certain places as sacred.

Enjoyed reading this piece about the role of the sacred for environmental health. The state of consciousness we are in affects how we treat everything around us:
www.noemamag.com/to-save-natu...

Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness The neural basis of consciousness is confounded by the mismatch between what participants report about their experience versus what they actually experience.

Thanks for sharing, also found this recent study that could be connected: elifesciences.org/articles/102...

I guess it can be different in many ways like memory capabilities, connectedness, content, or even beyond content to phenomenological aspects like Jennifer Windt has recently proposed.

You are right, the individual an methodological differences in probing consciousness is also important for anesthesia. Here the additional problem might be that people cannot always be awakened to collect experience reports. But maybe people can be trained to recall more? What do you think about it?

Thanks a lot Andre. Just discovered your wonderful article "Are we really unconscious in 'unconscious' states?". I agree with you and suspect sleep to be a conscious state as well, just a different mode of consciousness with lots of forgetfulness and periods of unresponsiveness to the environment.

I would be really interested in connecting with you, would you be open for a Zoom call in the coming weeks? My work email is benjamin.stucky@pharma.uzh.ch
Best wishes
Benjamin

You make some similar points in the paper, so it would have been nice to include it 🙈.
I only used the metadata of the DREAM database, so I can't say much about the EEG part of it. But it is really wonderful to have this data openly available. Thanks a lot for contributing to it 🙏

Wow, thanks a lot Bjørn for pointing me to this wonderful work of yours and collegues. I sadly missed it, otherwise I would have cited it.
Presenting one of your insightful EEG Lempel-Ziv complexity papers in a journal club lead me to do this review and analysis.

Sleep is a more conscious state than assumed. We analyzed 69 recent awakening studies with dream reports and found that:
1) deeper sleep leads fo forgetting ones dreams—not a lack of consciousness
2) gentler awakenings show 20% more dream recall in NREM sleep
tinyurl.com/sensecon

#consci #dreams

The Mind-Consciousness Conflation When the Mind enthrones itself.

Feeling pain is not the same as thinking where that pain comes from. Despite that simple experiential difference, the words "consciousness" and "mind" are often used interchangeably.
@marco-masi.bsky.social has a great article on this.

Thank you Santosh for this wonderful summary of current affairs and the remedy, a change of consciousness.

Did you know some people have four types of cones in their retinas? Michael Newall has suggested this may allow them to see colors that most of us with three cones do not perceive:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Why neuroscience does not disprove free will While the question whether free will exists or not has concerned philosophers for centuries, empirical research on this question is relatively young. …

Thanks for sharing. And even the Libet experiments do not prove that there is no free will. For example the brain activity before a decision could also reflect a decision process:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a power law. These...

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exactly, and it pushes reality to some unknown other without answering what reality would then be. Maybe some are attracted to this concept since they feel helpless and want to have a reason for it?

YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science Humans Vs. Ants: The Maze

Humans are good at solving such puzzles as an individual, but ants work well collectively: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHpu...

We are the sensors of consciousness! A review and analysis on how awakenings during sleep influence dream recall Purpose Since the 1930s, researchers have awakened people from different stages of sleep to record what they have experienced. While some aspects, including asking whether participants had dreams or t...

How often do you dream? I reviewed 69 studies that woke up participants and found that dreaming occured most of the time, even from deep sleep. The awakening method, the sleep environment and participant characteristics all shape the amount of dreams reported.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...