Matthew Lieberman

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone Grok explained:

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.

An ancient enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage promotes neural development and cognitive flexibility HAR123 is a conserved enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage that exerts neural functions.

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

Best memories start at BARBERCHOPS TikTok video by Barberchops

Favorite new TikTok channel. I could teach a whole class on this www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hAY4d5/

What Good Is a College Degree When AI Knows Everything? Grab the Job Skills That Matter in an AI World We live in a hyper-inflating knowledge economy, and everything we think we knew about jobs and college is eroding. So what do we do? This post lays out a path forward for an AI future...

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

Magnus Carlsen held to draw by 143,000 opponents in largest ever online chess game after 46 days of competing | CNN Magnus Carlsen is vastly successful against just one opponent. And even when he came up against many more, the Norwegian showed he can hold his own.

Wisdom of the crowd takes 5 time world chess champion to a draw www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/s...

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University

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

Synchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness Human subjectivity, our first-person conscious experience of the world, is among the deepest scientific mysteries. This opinion article lays out an approach to examining the neural correlates of subje...

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

New Twist on Famous Marshmallow Test: What Happens When You Add a Second Kid? New research gives the famous marshmallow test a makeover, showing that having support from a buddy makes children more likely to resist temptation and wait for a bigger reward.

Cool new "marshmallow" self-control study. It's about interpersonal emotion regulation. gizmodo.com/new-twist-on...

The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

Maybe we shouldn’t be so doom and gloom about students using ChatGPT for learning. This is consistent with my own experience. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Awesome work from @mollycrockett and co on the limits of the limits of introspective accuracy

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The cuts to NIH and NSF will cost 100s of billions in the short term and will reduce GPT by ~7% over the next 25-30 years

The scientific catastrophe has formally arrived. This is what Trump's budget would do to science funding in the US. Science funding after WWII is what made the US the powerhouse it is. Is there any US advantage Trump won't squander?