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This co-occurs with a bifurcation of the experiential field into subject and object, knower and known.
Finally, we take a step towards a two-dimensional active inference account of selfing that can explain both the organismic and identified-with self, and the relationship between them.
We show how awakening-focused insight meditation targets the elimination of the identified-with self but not the organismic self.
The identified-with self is shown to be a product of identifying with certain self-related aspects of experience, resulting in their perceptual masking.
With co-authors Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Yair Dor-Ziderman, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social and @kevinberryman.bsky.social, we solve the puzzle by pulling apart two distinct yet conflated notions of selfing.
We call these the 'organismic self' and the 'identified-with self'.
I'm excited to share our preprint: "Selfing without a self: The missing dimension of identification in computational accounts of selfhood"
The puzzle:
How can meditators claim persistent selfless experience without dysfunction when computational accounts claim it's maladaptive? 🧵
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New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social
Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness
Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Congrats to Nicolas Decat!
This one. Feels like the old Twitter. Surfaces content you are likely to want. Allows some low-follower accounts to go viral with good posts
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And awesome that it's open access, excited to read it!
It's finally out!!
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.
I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
🚨 New article in #NCONSC
Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
@anikokusztor.bsky.social
@qualiastructure.bsky.social
#consciousness
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📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne.
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
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We're hiring a Program Manager to join the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to be in the thick of our efforts. You would work closely with us to drive our current projects forward....
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Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration & Philosophy and Neuroscience Mentorship Program applications are due 2.28.26. Visit our website for more information.
For anyone interested in the mechanisms behind "letting go" in meditation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ndy...
This was a really fun conversation to have, thanks Josh! (www.linkedin.com/in/joshricha/)
Hagar did an excellent job on this and it was really fun to be involved with the project. :) Thanks to Matthew @matthewsacchet.bsky.social , Lars and Malcolm @malcolmnz.bsky.social for all their work in making this happen as well!
A lovely Christmas present: this paper led by Henrik Röhr is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YCJX8T...
In this paper, we predict on a single-trial level whether someone is practising a self-boundary dissolution meditation practice on the basis of their EEG data
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
I'm biased, but I think Neuromatch has done a lot of good in helping make computational science education accessible. Please consider donating to help us continue!
Very excited to announce that our new paper “Are Dreams Narrative Experiences? How Assumptions About Fictional Narratives Shape Debates on Dream Experiences” is officially published in Topoi.
I am truly honoured to have collaborated with my supervisor, Jennifer Windt, on this work.
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Hey all,
Thomas Metzinger has a new book out, have a look: www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0FZ...
@metzinger.bsky.social
Looking forward!
Definitely, odds are I'll be findable beside the coffee station ;-)
#contemplativescience #neuroskyence
The work on the self is a collaboration with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Yair Dor-Ziderman, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social and @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
Excited for the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP) 2025 Conference next week in Melbourne 24-25 Nov.
I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference.
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25!
Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇
#philosophy #neuroskyence
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