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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

I'm back at the Junkyard with some thoughts on the imaginative nature of psychedelic visions

Having lots of fun at the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind 2025 conference this weekend, with plenty more exciting talks yet to come. I’ll be speaking tomorrow about psychedelic "visions" — why and how they matter in psychedelic therapy.

We've got some amazing speakers lined up and a broad range of topics. It's going to be a very stimulating and interdisciplinary discussion so please join us if you can!

There is a chair in philosophy of mind vacant at the department of philosophy at Vienna:
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🌍 In Vienna today and no plans for the Evening? Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion:

Current Crises, Possible Futures

🗓️ When: Today! Thursday, May 8, 17:45–19:00
📍 Where: Aula am Campus, 1090 Wien

Explore the challenges of our time and the futures that await us. Details below! 👇

Great review by Joshua Kugel and his colleagues, showing how central insights might be to therapeutically beneficial psychedelic states

FYI online participation is also possible :)

Big thanks to @viennacogscihub.bsky.social and Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft for their support!

From Minds to Movements Interdisciplinary graduate conference

Join us for the graduate conference "From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism" on May 8-10, at the University of Vienna. The conference's schedule, alongside other details about how to register and find the venue, can be found here: mindstomovements.carrd.co

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Undisciplined: Reclaiming the Right to Imagine Undisciplined: Reclaiming the Right to Imagine, 'Undisciplined' is an odyssey into possibility. In a profound and heartfelt offering, Melz Owusu delves into the stifling impact of the education system...

Undisciplined by Melz Owusu is an incredible guide to imagining very much needed impossible possibilities. It's also a good antidote to political despair.

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From Minds to Movements Interdisciplinary graduate conference

CFP: The interdisciplinary graduate conference "From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism"
Date: May 8–10, 2025
Venue: University of Vienna
Application deadline: March 10, 2025
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Applications for the Summer University are OPEN!

New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Mind
Course date: July 1–10, 2025
Location: Budapest
Speakers: David Pitt, Clare Batty, Sam Coleman, Esa Díaz-León, Amy Kind, Howard Robinson, Charles Siewert, Wayne Wu

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Imagining Better Futures in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy — The Junkyard A post by Maria Fedorova Classic psychedelics, such as LSD and psilocybin, are both mind-altering and mind-revealing agents. They sharpen one’s sensations, induce illusions and hallucinations, distor...

This week at The Junkyard: A post by Maria Fedorova junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2024/11...