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🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaaanaru and I confront this challenge head on. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/n

Really glad and honoured to have been part of this cohort of CIFAR Winter School on the neuroscience of consciousness. It was really an amazing experience, both the science and the warmth of this community.

Had a blast with @CIFAR_News buddies in Cancun. It was great fun and very exciting science program. Got to meet so many students during the Winter School on Consciousness. @anilkseth @introspection @Comadork @ChrisKrupenye @meganakpeters @Liad_Mudrik @drmichaellevin @StanDehaene

ChatGPT refuses to say the name “David Mayer,” and no one knows why. If you try to get it to write the name, the chat immediately ends. People have attempted all sorts of things - ciphers, riddles, tricks - and nothing works.

My first monograph is going to the printer next week! For those interested in William James, pragmatism, decapitated frogs, mechanical automata, hemipelegic patients, self-experimentation involving wads of putty shoved into one's own eyeball sockets, etc; the usual fare.

So happy to see our paper finally out in @CurrentBiology ! 🥳 Link: cell.com/current-biolog…

This study offers empirical support for one of the core claims of EXPERIENCE: affective processing requires awareness

Here's our latest initiative to make research on consciousness engaging for young readers!👧👦 We just published an open-access paper in Frontiers for Young Minds 🌟 with contributions by Inès Mentec, @LMoncoucy and @axelcleeremans from our team. 👏 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our results indicate that valence computation may occur in early visual processing and that valence is involved in similarity judgments, corroborating recent claims for the functional role of conscious experience.

Leveraging representational similarity analysis, we compared human valence and similarity judgements with activation of deep neural networks' layers to better understand the role of valence in the similarity space.

We are very excited to share our new preprint about the role of emotional valence in conscious perception (manuscript currently under review). 👉osf.io/preprints/psya…

Has anyone cracked 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (good/bad)? Evolutionary argument seems necessary. But there will always be some who argue that it does not explain why it *feels* bad or good. So we're back to the starting point of having to determine why anything has to feel like something...

We have a small armada of presentations at the forthcoming @ASSC27tokyo, with a symposium, three talks and four posters lined up 😃🇯🇵⚡️. Details and schedule here: erc-xp.ulb.be/2024/06/25/erc…

We just lost a titan of philosophy. Cheers to Dennett.

@erikphoel Perhaps consciousness is the primary function of consciousness, but what is the function of consciousness? That’s the question we’re asking erc-xp.ulb.be

1. Not much going on today, so here's a personal magnum opus on how neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic and its results are not even wrong. (link in image, also a 🧵) theintrinsicperspective.com/p/neuroscience…

Ours too 😀 thanks ++

“Millions are dead around the world and the most likely cause is an accident during a risky experiment in a laboratory. Should we not be learning lessons from that?” MUST READ new piece by ⁦@mattwridley⁩. spiked-online.com/2023/12/20/the…

The spread of LLMs has accelerated debates on whether AI could be conscious. While experts have weighed in on this issue, in a new study (preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…) we surveyed the general population on whether they attributed consciousness to LLMs. A thread: (1/n)

I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again

On the fence whether you should submit your abstract? Wait no longer, and submit today! Deadline is tomorrow, and we're looking forward to reading your contribution!