Bjørn E Juel

Let me know if you want to come for a #consciousness #science workshop on the southern coast of the Oslo fjord one day.

How about brown Oxford's vs brown hiking boots? 😉

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Luckily I still get the pleasure of seeing the weird plushy purple peppers for split second every time I scroll past this post! The magic is not yet gone 🎉

I spoiled it by reading comments...

I have a very complicated relationship with Wyna Liu...

Thanks for sharing. This looks great!

This looks really fascinating! Looking forward to reading it 👍

It's all to do with a combination of frontoparietal connectivity, complexity, excitation-inhibition balance, and meta stability. Don't worry about it!

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Nothing.

If not, look to the physical structure of the system underpinning whichever algorithm is implemented and use that to make an inference based on your best available theory of consciousness.

Do you think it feels like anything to be a modern AI? Why? And Which algorithm do you have in mind?

Hoping there'll be a summary with pdfs of posters here later 🤞
For those of us that couldnt go to the conference this year

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'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

How so? Any highlights/take-homes regarding this? Unfortunately I am missing out on assc this year...

#consci

#consci

㊗️ 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...

Hope you recover quickly! 🩷

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...

I just finished the regional FENS conference here in Oslo, and my key takeaway was that spikes cannot possibly be the right level (or kind of thing) to account for the presence, or properties, of experience. It is just way to erratic, noisy, fast, and underconstrained.

Looking fwd to the paper

These are great!
Lovely example of what's lacking in today's AI systems: world models/physics/causality. Probably in part due to being trained on observations, as opposed to interventions testing it's predictions (ie They passively watch rather than actively engage). thus, they don't understand!

I'm here. Not much though 😊

The deadline for commentary proposals (just ~500 words) for our BBS paper is June 28! You can submit it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....

I'd ask something I'm genuinely curious about, and avoid citing facts.
For example, something like "How many deaths that would be prevented from modern medicine do you think is an acceptable sacrifice to return to your more 'nature based' alternative approach (less vaxx, no pasteurization etc)?"

Pain and pleasure: unravelling the complexities of opioids Podcast Episode · ECNP Podcast series · 02/06/2025 · 42m

Academia is a lot like a lottery - an uphill race, & if you win, more rewards

My first huge plenary talk - at ECNP last September- yielded a meeting with an editor, invites for papers & new talks, plus a podcast interview w/ Chiara Montitro out now:

podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/e...

Vamos carlitos!

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good!
Let us know how your experience was after :)

Have thought about the same, but never tried it. Good luck!

I have tried different topics and remain underwhelmed. I haven't exactly tried hard to engineer optimal prompts or whatever, but I'd characterize the reports it spits out like "decent student summaries" of the topic I ask. Not bad (except when it fails, which it sometimes does) but also not profound