For the academics, Claude Opus Extended is absolutely superior for doing reference-backed analysis of science-based queries. So far it has not hallucinated any papers and I only rarely disagree with its interpretations. Major upgrade.
Sorry - I pasted this over from the "other" place and didn't update my colleagues addresses for here. They are @beargoldstein and @shannon47burns.bsky.social
Across the dataset we saw that our CRQA measures accounted for significant variance in behavioral and self-report measures, while ISC and WTC did not
Excited to share new work from @bear_goldstein, @shannon47burns & my lab! We’re introducing a dynamic analytical approach for Hyperscanning called Cross-Recurrence Quantification Analysis (CRQA) that captures the complex coupling traditional methods often miss.
Just in case you weren't sure if the latest version of Grok went from being Elon's biggest critique to his biggest fan gizmodo.com/11-things-gr...
Gemini 3 is blowing my mind. I've been using it to edit my writing and it is on a whole other level compared to ChatGPT and Claude. It is a vastly deeper "thinker".
Very excited to share this amazing work that @beargoldstein.bsky.social just published from our lab. He did amazing work including creating a new technique that does for time series what MVPA did for spatial detail in the brain.
I appreciate the kind words. I think that will be someone else's book. My next serious book will be about consciousness.
2023 version
Tomorrow I am teaching Searle's Chinese room in my consciousness class and to add a bit of irony, I have this AI teach it. In the first comment, I have the 2023 version. Pretty amazing how far AI video has come.
Scientists may have found the genetic mutation that led humans to have bigger brains. If it can be modulated that would have huge consequences for the future. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Pretty awesome for all of UCLA's Jewish faculty to wake up today to find out all of our grants have been suspended because Trump is fighting anti-Semitism - an issue near and dear to his heart.
You get about 100 million breaths. So does every other animal big or small. Don't waste them. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tell me you have no prefrontal cortex without telling me you have no prefrontal cortex
Favorite new TikTok channel. I could teach a whole class on this www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hAY4d5/
Smart piece on AI and college degrees: "students cheating with ChatGPT aren't lazy—they're rational actors in an irrational system They're using 21st-century tools to game 19th-century assessments for 11th-century credentials. The real scandal is that we're still pretending the old game matters."
This is where all the social psych folks are these days, right? Does anyone know if Zimbardo got the idea for the Stanford Prison Experiment from the Third Wave Experiment that took place in Palo Alto (where Stanford is) 4 years before. Never seen a connection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thi...
Is someone you love applying to college in the next 3 years? The lessons I learned in my new substack post including: the statistics you can find are mostly meaningless (Lesson 6) and early decision (ED) is mostly a scam (Lesson 12). Here is the link: open.substack.com/pub/matthewl...
This is pretty brilliant on multiple levels
Wisdom of the crowd takes 5 time world chess champion to a draw www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/s...
Mental health interventions in the classroom do not help and sometimes makes things worse www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Integrating with other NCC models (Fig 2): RPT handles unstructured sensory experience → CEEing stitches them into coherence pre-reflective experiences → GNWT/HOT broadcast select bits for reflection & report. 8/8
That pattern fits my CEEing model: gestalt cortex fuses raw input with memories, motives & expectations, yielding coherent effortless experiences that feel “given,” not constructed—like invisible AR glasses painting meaning onto the world. 7/8
Meta-analysis of differential synchrony studies (Fig 1) highlights Gestalt cortex & posterior medial cortex, where sensory inputs meet personal context. 6/8
Neural synchrony measures how two brains’ signals rise/fall together while they watch the same story. Regular synchrony shows shared experience; differential synchrony zooms in on where groups diverge, isolating their unique p-interpretations. 5/8
Subjective experience also integrative: moments blend across time, space, & meaning. Your brain weaves memories, motives, & context together with sensory input, so the now already carries bits of then and next. 4/8
Subjectivity is idiosyncratic: what seems like plain fact to me may be “interpretation” to you. Hidden, effortless p-interpretations flow beneath the surface; deliberate r-interpretations float above. 3/8
Most neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) work asks “did you see the flash?”—great for stimulus detection, terrible for capturing what the moment felt like. My new TiCS piece focuses on the stream of consciousness itself & why people see things differently. Link bit.ly/4doNZhT
Excited to share my new TiCS paper, currently free to download. After 40 years since I was first obsessed with consciousness, I finally wrote a paper directly about it. A thread on the paper's plot line below. 1/8
