I was there for Jerry's memorial in Golden Gate Park 30 years ago! I was at quite a few Dead shows but didn't appreciate it as I should have! Would have been fun to see this 50th anniversary gig!
05.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming March 17, 2026!
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
04.08.2025 16:21 — 👍 171 🔁 35 💬 7 📌 0
Humans And Neanderthals Hooked Up Three Times. Here’s Where It Happened
We kept coming back for more.
Spoiler: it was an annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Article does not mention if players were weak or strong.
04.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 63 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 1
Just realized I have been listening to the same Grateful Dead song for the last three days!
04.08.2025 15:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just for the record, no one can accuse me of ever having done philosophy in a smokey voice! Mine is more of a vapey voice 😮💨
31.07.2025 22:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just saw an online comment that said I am their favorite philosopher and I was very surprised. I hadn't realized the AI bots were already scraping the bottom of the barrel!
30.07.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a visual illusion: what appears to be some strangely shaped pink pieces of cloth are actually the background on which several forks are laying
these are forks
26.07.2025 20:10 — 👍 94 🔁 26 💬 10 📌 5
BBLDrizzy approved 😂
23.07.2025 20:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Big Merla
@MichaelJackson @AlienAntFarmChannelHEHE🍼🐣Check on your mom friends the kids are taking us OUT
You: "Been listening to any new stuff lately?"
Me: "yeah, Big Merla!" lol
youtube.com/shorts/8KR41...
12.07.2025 09:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attention robustly dissociates objective performance and subjective visibility reports
Attention generally enhances both visual performance and subjective appearance. Yet, at matched performance, unattended items can appear more visible than attended ones, a phenomenon called “subjective inflation.” Inflation, however, has only been narrowly tested near detection thresholds, making it unclear whether attention regularly dissociates objective and subjective aspects of perception with broad implications for everyday vision—where attention is usually unevenly distributed—and for studies of consciousness. Here, in four experiments, we tested inattentional inflation over varied stimulus and task conditions, spanning threshold to suprathreshold regimes. Using a new analytic approach to relate objective and subjective reports over full psychometric functions, we measured subjective inflation over wide ranges of matched performance. In all experiments, inattention inflated subjective stimulus visibility. But when subjective reports specified visibility of the task-relevant feature, we only found evidence for inflation at threshold. Thus, what we think we see may regularly dissociate from what we can visually discriminate. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Templeton World Charity Foundation, https://ror.org/00x0z1472, 0567
Very happy to have played even a small part in this awesome work!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
08.07.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A student asked me what is philosophy? I said that I have an hour video lecture on that topic and they asked for a summary. So I said it is the quest to understand the nature of reality and our place in it using Human tools, by which I mean Reason and Observation. Not to bad, I think
26.06.2025 19:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How I explain frequentism vs Bayesianism to my students
24.06.2025 12:29 — 👍 94 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 1
Started reading Rakesfall and, while I was expecting something strange following The Saint of Bright Doors, I was not expecting this! Captivating, strange, beautiful, thought-provoking and wonderful to read!
20.06.2025 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just worked out a deal to pay off my sleep-debt over the next 20 years
18.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
you know it!
04.06.2025 12:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
this is phenomenal!
03.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Grades of Mind: Agency, Memory, Sentience
“In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide…
Excited about the Grades of Mind workshop at LSE today! Hosted by @birchlse.bsky.social and featuring Nick Shea, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and more.
My talk will be about agency and moral standing, challenging the view that robust agents but not basic agents matter for their own sakes.
Join us!
28.05.2025 10:27 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Very happy this is finally out 🎉. In this paper, we show that conf. reports are biased by a visual illusion, an asymmetrical base rate and a payoff scheme. Crucially, we show that only the visual illusion affects subj. experience, suggesting decision bias leaks onto confidence reports.
22.05.2025 10:53 — 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
Today's commuting playlist included tracks from:
Exodus
Incantation
The Motet
Municipal Waste
Katalepsy
Dexter Gordon
Mad Professor &Marcelinho Da Lua
Jimmy Cliff
Tenacious D
Air
Dark Funeral
Lady Gaga
Dark Angel
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, & Emmylou Harris
Corrupted Ideals
Pat Metheny
Phish
🔥🎵🔥
21.05.2025 18:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Received a notification that Consciousness Live! is in the top 30 podcasts on consciousness. Really??!! There are over 30 podcasts on consciousness? I find that unbelievable
19.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Should I be grading papers right now? yes, yes I should be...
17.05.2025 17:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can now submit a commentary on our paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... We're very much looking forward to reading your commentaries and discussing our hypothesis with you!
16.05.2025 14:07 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
YouTube video by thelonelyisland
Threw It On The Ground
Mood: youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL...
14.05.2025 14:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
While I get (and approve of) the joke, some of us are full professors teaching 4(+1)/(+2)/4(+1)/(+3)=15 classes at a community college while also publishing (admittedly crappy work) which is rarely invited. In addition we are expected to sacrifice family time for pointless meetings.
13.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by onemorebrown
Consciousness Live! S7 Ep8 -Discussion with Maja Spener
Next up on Consciousness Live! Maja Spener...I haven't done a 5:30 am interview in a while! Nice to be back on UK time, haha
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5p-...
12.05.2025 19:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm a little late but I *finally (!!!)* beat the Nameless Puppet and achieved the Rise of P ending...ok, deep breath, aaaannnddd back to work!
10.05.2025 18:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Consciousness Live! S7 E6 -Discussion with Jake Quilty-Dunn
YouTube video by onemorebrown
Today at 1 pm Eastern join me for a discussion with Jake Quilty-Dunn. And tomorrow, May 7th, I will be doing an in-person episode with Andrei Buckareff as part of the LaGuardia Undergraduate Philosophy and Social Science conference! Very exciting/exhausting!
youtube.com/live/sn4gfo6...
06.05.2025 11:16 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Cognitive Science at UC Davis. Philosophical Shark Jumper ®️ 🦈
Assistant professor of philosophy @ Purdue.
Professional PDF enjoyer.
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Account of the Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Athena Demertzi (co-EiC) @ademertzi
Thomas Andrillon (co-EiC) @thomasandrillon
Ben Kozuch (DepEd) @benjikozuch
Philosopher. Here to watch
SF writer / computer programmer
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Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, He/him, Brother of the Night's Watch 🏰🐉, Professor @uwaterloo and @Perimeter
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Postdoc fellow @Yale | Previously @NYU @UCLA Memory, auditory cognition, consciousness, machine learning
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
philosophy postdoc at rutgers, sad charlotte sports fan
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Philosophy Prof at University of Oslo. Writes all things attention - from psychology to politics and back. Author of "Structuring Mind" (OUP). PI of GoodAttention. He/His
https://www.sebastianwatzl.com/
Philosopher (consciousness, panpsychism, IIT, causal powers)
Philosophy and Psychology professor in Cincinnati. Embodied cognition, AI, social cognition, phenomenology, critical theory. (he/him)
Loser ape with a poor grip on self control
Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/GutsickGibbon
Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland, College Park
Neuroscientist interested in cognitive-emotional brain
Author of The Entangled Brain, MIT Press, 2022
Author of The Cogitive-Emotional Brain, MIT Press, 2013
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon (YouTube)
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Philosopher and Pro-Rector at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
