Do the thinking models think?
https://bytesauna.com/post/consciousness
#HackerNews #Do #the #thinking #models #think? #consciousness #AI #models #thinking #technology #innovation
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Do the thinking models think?
https://bytesauna.com/post/consciousness
#HackerNews #Do #the #thinking #models #think? #consciousness #AI #models #thinking #technology #innovation
DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/24/JNEUROSCI.0344-25.2025
#HackerNews #DMT #self-dissolution #criticality #neuroscience #consciousness
New in our electronic collection:
➡️ Who is Conscious? A Guide to the Minds of #Animals
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197818657.001.0001
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon #consciousness #AnimalWelfare #zoology #ecology
See also:
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction by Susan Blackmore, 2005
Challenges readers to reconsider key concepts such as personality, free will, and the soul. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion?
New in our electronic collection:
➡️ Who is Conscious? A Guide to the Minds of #Animals
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197818657.001.0001
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon #consciousness #AnimalWelfare #zoology #ecology
Protect Your Consciousness from AI
https://jordangoodman.bearblog.dev/protect-your-consciousness-from-ai/
#HackerNews #ProtectYourConsciousness #AI #Ethics #Consciousness #Awareness #Technology #Safety
First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks
#HackerNews #dyingbrain #memoryflashbacks #neuroscience #consciousness #humanexperience
#Consciousness – The Brain’s #UserIllusion, Explained!🧠✨
What if consciousness isn’t the “captain” of our #thoughts — but just the dashboard we use to navigate them?
📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#Zoomposium #DanielDennett #Consciousness #UserIllusion #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Qualia #FreeWill #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Embodiment #Functionalism #Materialism #Naturalism #MindAndMachine #Cognition #IllusionOfSelf
#Consciousness – The Brain’s #UserIllusion, Explained!🧠✨
What if consciousness isn’t the “captain” of our #thoughts — but just the dashboard we use to navigate them?
📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#Zoomposium #DanielDennett #Consciousness #UserIllusion #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #Qualia #FreeWill #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Embodiment #Functionalism #Materialism #Naturalism #MindAndMachine #Cognition #IllusionOfSelf
From Nao Tsuchiya @ Monash University
YouTube videos for the 2025 summer school for Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory
Dear all, (who contributed to our summer school projects in the past!)
We are starting to upload 2025 Qualia Structure IIT summer school lecture videos in this Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPGZ1CacVU&list=PLEP8weJRxEPbn_D22O-RmWIZbxOPDO-Vu
PLEASE spread the words to your local networks (email list, social media, etc).
It would be really great if we can reach STUDENTS (from high school to PhD), early career research or more. (Nowadays, it's very difficult to reach the relevant audience!)
We are particularly interested in reaching the younger generation, who might be interested in joining the future summer school (we will organize it again, possibly in 2026 Sep or 2027 Feb).
For those who have not been exposed to the basic and interdisciplinary consciousness research, Day 1 talk by Christof Koch will be a great introduction.
For those who are interested in Integrated Information Theory, the gentle introduction by Matteo Grasso will be particularly informative.
#connectionist #consciousness #videos #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Summerschool
After this https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/113544420424754480
today in Bologna was the last day of shooting by director Michal Lam of a documentary, shot with a 360° camera explicitly for planetariums...and I apparently was the main character.
I think I nailed it - a role for which I trained all my life.
"Can you look in the right screen? Can you click some button? Type something on the keyboard?"
And I just did, so natural, not even using stuntmen. 😅
RE: https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/113555829850124788
Last year a filming team visited me in #Bologna to shoot a few scenes for a documentary about the #Universe and the #Brain to be shown over 360° on the dome of the planetarium in #montreal
Now it's out!
https://hubblo.ca/en/bounds-of-infinity/
With a catchy trailer, in which yours truly appears at 30s:
https://youtu.be/v6rjKBWD5o4?si=4bXSYZCHRl9NX_Fg
The documentary is directed by M. Lam, and it features a few other researchers, artists, and neuroscientists (A. Seth and my friend A. Feletti).
#physics #science #consciousness
After this https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/113544420424754480
today in Bologna was the last day of shooting by director Michal Lam of a documentary, shot with a 360° camera explicitly for planetariums...and I apparently was the main character.
I think I nailed it - a role for which I trained all my life.
"Can you look in the right screen? Can you click some button? Type something on the keyboard?"
And I just did, so natural, not even using stuntmen. 😅
RE: https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/113555829850124788
Last year a filming team visited me in #Bologna to shoot a few scenes for a documentary about the #Universe and the #Brain to be shown over 360° on the dome of the planetarium in #montreal
Now it's out!
https://hubblo.ca/en/bounds-of-infinity/
With a catchy trailer, in which yours truly appears at 30s:
https://youtu.be/v6rjKBWD5o4?si=4bXSYZCHRl9NX_Fg
The documentary is directed by M. Lam, and it features a few other researchers, artists, and neuroscientists (A. Seth and my friend A. Feletti).
#physics #science #consciousness
LSD and the #Mind of the Universe (Part Two)
LSD and the #Mind of the Universe (Part Two)
LSD & the Mind of the Universe is my review & summary of the deepest study of LSD I have encountered. Over a period 20 years, Bache , a professor of philosophy for 33 years, took high doses of LSD 70 times, each time with a guide, blindfolded, over the ear headphones, and a curated musical setlist.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/136417424
...more to come
LSD & the Mind of the Universe is my review & summary of the deepest study of LSD I have encountered. Over a period 20 years, Bache , a professor of philosophy for 33 years, took high doses of LSD 70 times, each time with a guide, blindfolded, over the ear headphones, and a curated musical setlist.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/136417424
...more to come
Here is an #Introduction. My current project is about #emergentBehavior in #animalNetworks. I also study consequences of #climateChange. I often wonder how to explain basic concepts of #ecology and #statistics to students. What else: #consciousness (with #panPsychic bias), #seti and #youWouldntLikeToKnow
A visionary essay on DNA, morphic fields, and collective intelligence—
exploring resonance, evolution, and the quantum roots of memory.
https://metapsychosis.com/dna-symphonies-surreal-spillovers/
#Consciousness #QuantumBiology#VisionaryScience #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/dna-symphonies-surreal-spillovers/
A visionary essay on DNA, morphic fields, and collective intelligence—
exploring resonance, evolution, and the quantum roots of memory.
https://metapsychosis.com/dna-symphonies-surreal-spillovers/
#Consciousness #QuantumBiology#VisionaryScience #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/dna-symphonies-surreal-spillovers/
10 A Geometry of Consciousness, The Pribram Bohm Hypothesis
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