Francesco Ellia

We are very excited to share this new preprint @yutogashi.bsky.social @oizumim.bsky.social with the excellent video providing the idea! The paper explains how this approach actually goes into more details in revealing subtle individual difference and complex structures of color qualia.

Every time I upload a paper to #bioRxiv, I wonder why it can't be this easy at every journal 🧪

wonderful!

This paper and lecture by @wgpm.bsky.social address a long standing question about #IIT: if #consciousness is intrinsic, how does it relate to its #environment?

From our @qualiastructure.bsky.social Qualia Structure & IIT Summer School 2025!

(PDF) A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection PDF | On Dec 3, 2025, Z Chuyin and others published A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection | Find, read and cite all the research you...

If your stimulus set is so large that each participant can only use a part of it, do you know random selection is not a good way to distribute the stimuli? We introduced a methodology to collect data efficiently. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @qualiastructure.bsky.social doi.org/10.13140/RG....

Be mindful of the subjectivity of conscious experience!
Our poster "Free descriptions reduce friction between report and visual experience" at 2025 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference @ellia.bsky.social @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @qualiastructure.bsky.social
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Identity theory 2.0

Of course, if this model would be able to explain why a human brain is conscious in the way it is, why certain parts of such brain don’t look conscious, why consciousness seems to go away during certain physiological states, then I could take it more seriously.

I disagree, it’s an hypothesis that you cannot test and that it’s not embedded in an explanatory framework..

Goff position is not a theory nor explains anything. In fact, it’s no more a solution to the HP than claiming that there’s some magic involved.

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 1 Matteo Grasso: Introduction to Integrated Information Theory YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 1 Matteo Grasso: Introduction to Integrated Information Theory youtu.be/cwPGZ1CacVU?... Highly accessible!

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 1: Christof Koch: Introduction to the consciousness research YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 1: Christof Koch: Introduction to Consciousness and Brain youtu.be/rfYX8YVK7HQ?... via @YouTube

I will check this reference out! My understanding is that you can always push functions a bit further till the point you have a description of the substrate. Then either it collapse in identity theory or become a substrate relevant framework, such as the one proposed by @anilseth.bsky.social.

Congratulations!

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Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social

I couldn’t access my account since it was linked to my old institution email. I contacted the customer support and asked them to delete my account and they claimed they did so (oddly enough they didn’t ask any proof of ID). I suggest you to do the same, it’s a bad platform anyway.

New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in @pnas.org - led by @frosas.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/ @andrealuppi.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, me, & Dan Bor. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

This is a core issue that I have with the recent paper on AI and consciousness based on computational functionalist theories. Also the term theory is very inflated nowadays. I am guilty of that myself, but something to think about.

Another preprint! By @zhangchuyin.bsky.social me and @naotsuchiya.bsky.social !

New preprint out!

My friend @zhangchuyin.bsky.social is new on Bluesky, he is a brilliant student close to the end of his PhD, please follow him!

Check out our new preprint on theories of #consciousness!

We argue that there is a genuine, hard-to-reconcile (perhaps impossible?), schism, most likely given by the extrinsic and intrinsic dimension we highlighted.

Of course we aren't immune by our own biases! So we would be delighted to hear your feedbacks about this project. Since the scope of this paper is very broad there is a chance that if you work in #consci you might have something to tell me or @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @qualiastructure.bsky.social !

The potential lack of a 'common measure' (or #incommensurability) could be the reason why, many times, proponents of different frameworks seem to talk past each other, instead of *to* each other. This also prompted a reflection on #cognitivebias in consciousness science [4/n]

Notably, both clusters are differentiated for both foundational assumptions on what the scientific investigation of #consciousness should concern, and crucial questions to be asked by such research. [3/n]

We focus on three parallel debates concerning: #structures and #functions, #universalism and #'localism', and #extrinsic and #intrinsic #perspectives.

We argue that there are two emerging clusters, intrinsic-universal-structures and extrinsic-local-functions. [2/n]

(PDF) Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions PDF | Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks, structuralist vs. functionalist, universal vs. local,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n]

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..ok? As a human being, you have the freedom to not engage with me if you find me annoying. All is good.

No, I'm replying to the post, not to the paper. As you can imagine, there are so many interesting articles that it's difficult to find the time to read them all. So if something captures my interest, I try to understand what the topic is about.

Building blocks for theories of consciousness Consciousness science is brimming with theories attempting to explain what consciousness is and how it can be identified in natural and artificial sys…

New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness