Léa Moncoucy

5/ ... is also shaped by the preference-driven subjective value associated with items, situations, events or other agents. Do not hesitate to check out this proposal; and the other of this Special Issue!

4/ Our answer: We argue that phenomenal experience—what it feels like—is what gives intrinsic value to such behaviour. Phenomenal experience expands an organism’s ability to act, not only according to the objective value of an extrinsic evolutionary cost function, but...

3/ The question: How do organisms go from acting upon reasons explained by extrinsic evolutionary cost functions to acting for reasons of their own—even engaging in behaviour that may be detrimental to their own existence?

2/ « How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things? » asked DC. Dennett (personal communication, 2020). We took this question one step further, building on a proposal from Cleeremans and Tallon-Baudry (2022)...

1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @RSocPublishing in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axelcleeremans, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Krzysztof Dolega, and myself. 👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2… ⬇️ Summary below:

Why are we conscious? Don't say "I know the answer". Instead, come help us figure out the best way of asking the question. To do so, join the fab @erc_experience team. Extra credit for a computational cognitive neuroscience background. crcn.ulb.ac.be/news/opening-o…

The academic year is starting and we're back with a new series of CONNEX seminars 🎉 The first one (available online) will be on Tue 19th September! Stay tuned to discover our first speaker 🔥 @crcnULB #crcn #connex

Together with my colleagues @LMoncoucy & @AmerioPietro we are bringing you a series of captivating seminars held by scientists in the fields of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, philosophy and ethology, also available online - stay tuned! @crcnULB

Sunday 25th, a strong closing from: 11:15 @AmerioPietro presenting on “Featural blindsight in a 2-Interval Forced-Choice task” in room 204 While @LMoncoucy and Inès Mentec will present their joint work titled “Valence colors all our perceptions” during the poster session!

Saturday, the 24th: two of our members will be presenting back to back in room 206 14:00 @krysdolega will present “Hidden in plain sight: on the elusive nature of valence in perceptual experience” 14:15 @axelcleeremans will 🤩 us with tales about “The value of consciousness”

Today, the 23rd we have: 11:30 Nicolas Coucke presenting on “The role of metacognition in embodied joint decision making” in room 202 11:45 @ivan_ivanchei will talk about the “Dynamics of confidence in implicit learning” in room 206

Talking about metacognition in implicit & reinforcement learning at the Metacognition session (room 206) around 11:45 today @ASSC26nyc. Drop by if interested in confidence and prediction errors! #ASSC26

Make sure to follow @erc_experience to find out *how* we we are trying to address the *why* of consciousness (made by my great team @krysdolega @LMoncoucy @ivan_ivanchei & Inès Mentec)

@danieljhicks @DerekSkillings here's the link: easychair.org/account/signin…

@cedric_p If the problem is that it is very time-consuming (and it is), you can start with Next generation, which has most of the time stand-alone episodes. You can pick just a few episodes to watch, I would advise in between seasons 3 and 6, (with one exception, s2 e9, my favorite one).🖖

I have never had any desire to watch Star Trek (whether the multiple TV series or movies) or Babylon 5. My (unjustified) feeling is that they're very long/complex/convoluted given their possible payoff. What am I missing?