Trump signs executive order encouraging psychedelic drug research YouTube video by CNN

US fördert weiter psychedelische Forschung. Auch Deutschland sollte hier aktiver werden, denn es gibt noch viel zu tun. www.youtube.com/live/GoHoG9c...

Awesome workshop on neural correlates of consciousness! Join, in person or online: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

Yes. The special
Issue is part if this volume.

@andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I differentiate between a wide understanding of structuralism that emphasises the role of structure in determining phenomenal character, and stricter forms where structure is ALL that we can know of (methodological) or there is to (ontic) consciousness.

I am very proud of the special issue on „Structuralism in the Science of Consciousness“ that @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I edited for @phimisci.bsky.social. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.

#PhiMiSci has released a Call for Papers, inviting submissions for a book symposium on Frances Egan’s new book, „Deflating Mental Representation“. The symposium will be edited by Ken Aizawa, and the submission period runs from November 15, 2025, to April 15, 2026. For more information, see here:

#PhiMiSci recently published a new article: „Attention and collective interests in artificial intelligence: In search of a regulatory framework“ by C. Dicey Jennings & C. Montemayor explores the role of attention in #AI and argues that we should understand these systems as collective agents.

Kind & Nickel Awarded Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Daily Nous The German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology, the largest continental European national association for psychiatry, has announced the winners of its Prize for Phil...

Wonderful that these two young researchers are being honored. Congratulations! A privilege to know them: Lea was my student aid, while Adrian finished his PhD under my supervision. Outstanding enthusiasm, diligence, and shrewdness in both. Cudos, Lea & Adrian!
dailynous.com/2025/11/26/k...

COMPAIN PROJECT COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and ​Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)

Join us today at 12 CET for the talk by Hadeel Naeem on #AI and the complexity of #pain, the newest entry in our #COMPAIN lecture series:

compain.weebly.com

Wonderful! Congratulations!

COMPAIN PROJECT COMPAIN Project Website : A project on the Complexity of Pain and ​Its Normative Implications By Germany (FAU & UoM) and Taiwan (NYCU)

Join us all for the ongoing COMPAIN lecture series on the complexity of pain. Today’s speaker is Saulius Genusias. The whole series and link to the ZOOM link can be found here: compain.weebly.com
(supported by #BMFTR and #NSTC)

Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrücklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kündigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwächen. Für Resilienz braucht’s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Have a contemplative UNESCO WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY, everyone.

COMPAIN Lectures: The Complexity of Pain and Its Normative Implications

The Taiwanese-German research group COMPAIN (compain.weebly.com) invites you to join the COMPAIN Lecture Series featuring talks on pain from philosophical, medical, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Daily Neuron comments on The Multiple Generator Hypothesis In a recent paper published in Neuroscience of Consciousness, researchers Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Sascha B. Fink, and Morten S. Overgaard propose a paradigm-shifting alternative. They reject the old ass...

A press release by Aarhus University on our paper on the multiple generator hypothesis (Kirkeby-Hinrup, Fink, & Overgaard 2025)

neurocampus.au.dk/display/arti...

The Multiple Generator Hypothesis Could Revolutionize Our Search for Consciousness - Daily Neuron The multiple generator hypothesis challenges the idea that only one theory of consciousness can be right, suggesting multiple pathways exist in the brain.

Our article on the multiple generator hypothesis for consciousness has been talke about at „The Daily Neuron“. Have a look:

dailyneuron.com/multiple-gen...

Join the „Philosophy of AI“ Conference in Amsterdam (23-24. October 2025):

www.pt-ai.org/2025/

And join the associated Society for Philosophy of AI while you are at it.

Philosopher Wins Open Access Award - Daily Nous Adrian Kind, a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and psychology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is one of the winners of the 2025 Open Access Award. The award is given by Open Library of ...

@philpsy.bsky.social Adrian Kind just won the Open Access Prize by the OLH.

What a great achievement! Congratulations, Adrian! And all of you: Check out his other work.

dailynous.com/2025/09/25/p...

Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness A group of scientists are trying to track down how it works in the brain

And Asger got a shout-out by The Economist for this idea already two years ago:

www.economist.com/science-and-...

The multiple generator hypothesis of consciousness Abstract. It is well known that in interdisciplinary consciousness studies there are various competing hypotheses about the neural correlate(s) of consciou

What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators?

Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!)

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

I just quit academia.edu. Even trying to get such a permission – together with AI-screening of my uploaded articles being ON per default – is a no go. All of my newer stuff is open access anyway and I will move it to philpapers.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Germany Approves EU’s First Psilocybin Access Program Germany has given the green light for two medical facilities to offer psilocybin to adults with treatment-resistant depression.

Forbes reports that Germany established a psilocybin access programme. That is quite big news for psychedelic research and therapy in Europe.

Lovely that this little programmatic article is now out in #Gastronomica!

Many thanks to Brandon Ashby and all member of project SENSOR (Derek Brown, Jack Lyons, & Fiona @macpherson.bsky.social ).

Watch out for more on #SensoryEngineering! Bon appétit!

CoRN 2025 We would like to invite submissions of abstracts to be presented at the 5th Meeting of CoRN to be held August 6-8 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Please submit an abstract no longer than 1800 ch...

What a great conference of the Consciousness Research Network (CORN) in Bangkok! The whole team at Chulalongkorn (under the lead of Chaipat Chunharas and Kanit Mitinunwong Sirichan) were such excellent hosts and organisers. Thank you to all participants for the great discussions and all the fun!

Thank you, Adrian, for posting this. Beside our editors and advisors, we are grateful to all authors that have trusted us with their manuscripts.

Sascha Fink: „Nicht Schmerz ist das Interessante, sondern schmerzinduziertes Leiden” Der Erlanger Philosoph Sascha Fink fordert eine neue Sprache für Schmerz, einen neuen Fokus auf Leid und neue Ställe für Schweine.

Das PHILOSOPHIE MAGAZIN hat dieses kurze Interview publiziert über unser COMPAIN Schmerzprojekt. Humor wurde leider rauseditiert, aber ich danke Nils Althaus (dem Interviewer) herzlich für das tolle Gespräch! www.philomag.de/artikel/sasc...

The programme of the upcoming workshop on conscious AI is up:

emw.flu.cas.cz

#consci

Really great resource for all people interested in illusions:

www.illusionsindex.org

Ohne Transparenz regiert sich’s leichter — besonders ins eigene Tascherl. Deswegen: Halten wir’s a bisserl schwerer. Ist eh noch undurchsichtig genug.