Scientists have successfully reconstructed videos purely from the brain activity of mice, showing what the mice were seeing, in a new study led by @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social researchers
i wrote a paper on two senses of medium independence: the haugeland sense & the garson sense. the haugeland sense is like putnam's multiple realizability & the garson sense is like piccinini's medium independence. they are different and the difference matters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Our symposium, #“Aphantasia_and_Consciousness,” has been accepted for the upcoming @assc2026.bsky.social! Speakers include @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social, Lu Teng, and myself (Chair). Looking forward to great discussions — come join us if you’ll be there! theassc.org/assc-29/
Adam Mael’s LEGO replica of Michigan Football’s 2023 National Championship trophy.
Adam Mael’s LEGO replica of The Cube.
Adam Mael’s LEGO replica of the heart of U-M’s Central Campus.
Adam Mael, a graduate program coordinator at Michigan Engineering, completed a LEGO replica of U-M’s Central Campus in 2020. Since then, Mael has continued working to bring Michigan-themed landmarks and celebrations to life: myumi.ch/e3Nqz
A Neural Model of Conscious Mental Imagery and Aphantasia, out in Neuropsychologia (open access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Yes, we now have a model to study unconscious and conscious mental imagery. Looking forward to your thought!
Very excited about this work looking at the emergent mechanisms that vision language models use to perform structured visual processing, mirroring a computational strategy (visual indexing) proposed in cognitive science, but here learned by VLMs. Check out the paper/thread for more details!
Title page of our paper: "Bears, all bears, and some bears. Language Constraints on Language Models' Inductive Inferences"
“All bears have a property”, “Some bears have a property”, “Bears have a property” are different in terms of how the property is generalized to a specific bear – a great example of how language constrains thought!
This holds for kids, adults, and according to our new work, (V)LMs! 🧵
I'm excited to share that my first paper "Guessing and its Limits" is forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research!
Thread below. TLDR: I present a novel puzzle for a recent "question-sensitive" theory of guessing/belief in multi-question scenarios.
philpapers.org/rec/FANGAI-2
New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
this has to be the cutest conference poster I've ever seen 😭
Call for papers open for a thematic workshop on phil of emotion at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — deadline is next week! More details:
philevents.org/event/show/1...
🧠 Join us for the 4th annual Philosophy of AI Conference (21–22 May 2026), focusing on Reasoning and Agency in AI. Spaces are limited—register to secure your attendance!
@sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Very much looking forward to this series of workshops on the computational ingredients of reasoning. We have an amazing lineup of speakers from diverse backgrounds, and there will be lots of opportunities for discussion. Please consider attending!
Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Entertaining and wide-ranging panel discussion on consciousness at the @crick.ac.uk hosted by @profbriancox.bsky.social and featuring me, @anilseth.bsky.social @kathaschmack.bsky.social and @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social
Check it out, let us know what you think!
www.lnk.to/AQOSConsciou...
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
Excited to share my essay with @carrot0817.bsky.social, Kaia Gao on the representational substrate of world-reasoning in both humans and machines has been accepted to the SpaVLE Workshop at #NeurIPS2025✨
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I’m not saying we should ignore the biological details. I think the details matter a lot for implementing the right functions. But if you think biology matters beyond that, just give me a *biological* property that reliably distinguishes conscious from unconscious states.
"Intuitions of mathematical curves in young children's drawings"
In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲
#CoreCognition #LLM #multimodal #GrowAI We spent 3 years to curate 1503 classic experiments spanning 12 core concepts in human cognitive development and evaluated on 230 MLLMs with 11 different prompts for 5 times to get over 3.8 millions inference data points.
A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅
A non-value-based system in the brain automates decision-making and frees up cognitive resources for other tasks, a new study in mice suggests.
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...
super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Hanbei Zhou, a @jhu.edu undergraduate, giving a talk at @vssmtg.bsky.social! #VSS2025
A visual advertisement of VSS projects from the Firestone Lab
It's @vssmtg.bsky.social! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues.
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
