Very interesting take on the current state of consciousness science!!

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? 🧵

t.ly/vDv4n

Thanks @johanneskleiner.bsky.social ! @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming book chapter on C-tests. It might be useful because it surveys some of the literature on this. It's available here: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25164/

Hello dreamers, I would like to crowdsource how we test for consciousness(?)

Do you know of any papers exploring these topics. Feel free to link anything, even if you think I'm aware of the paper (i.e., Bayne et al.'s paper, etc.).

#consciousness #neuroscience #sentience

Our MOSAIC paper is out in @nconsc!
Turning first-person reports into interpretable phenomenological clusters using topic modelling and LLMs.

Organised by @ispsm.bsky.social

Please join us for this fantastic double-book symposium on @hohwy.bsky.social's and @kathrynnave.eurosky.social's books.

Register here for the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The ISPSM is happy to announce a double book symposium on: Kate Nave's A Drive to Survive & Jakob Hohwy's The Self-Evidencing Agent
May 12, H 10:00 CEST
Subscription form Here: forms.gle/NGkFaVYHS7Lk...
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

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

We have an exciting series of talks coming up this semester. Starting on April 22nd, Wednesday's 6pm Berlin time! Join us in going back to mental representations!

Yeah ASSC was fun, and really helpful :) if you have any thoughts we would be very happy to hear!

Thanks Johannes! Feel free to send comments, of course 😊

Thanks! Feel free to send comments 😊

Excited to announce that Prof. Alicia Juarrero just joined the fantastic line-up of Keynote speakers for the "Beyond Neuro-Computationalism" workshop.
CFA here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

The manuscript is not peer-reviewed yet, so changes are to be expected and any comment will be greatly appreciated - feel free to send feedback! :)

Happy to share our preprint mapping the structure of theories of consciousness and their predictions, with @edenelbaz.bsky.social, @shaifischer.bsky.social, @maorschreiber.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social. Accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Supplementary: osf.io/9xug8/overview

announcement of the models of consciousness conference 2026 at the university of copenhagen

The next Models of Consciousness Conference will take place in Copenhagen! 



We are excited to bring #MoC7 to the University of Copenhagen on October 12–16, 2026.

Call for Abstracts is now open on our website (link below!)

Excited to co-organize the next edition of @moc7.bsky.social in Denmark!

Important news for our Italian colleagues: #PhiMiSci has been recognized as a Class A journal by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) in area 11/C2. We hope this will make #PhiMiSci an even more attractive venue for your work!

It's a great pleasure to announce a second workshop on questions of measurement!

While our first workshop was dedicated to questions of measurement in #ConSci, this workshop focuses on the foundations of measurement across the sciences.

A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection Subjective comparisons of aspects of experience provides reliable and powerful numerical data, which can provide us means to characterize structures o…

[new paper!] A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection by Chuyin, Lipeng, Tsuchiya www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... PDF freely available!

This has shaped up to be quite an exciting event! Join us ( @johanneskleiner.bsky.social @jolienfrancken.bsky.social ) this Monday to explore different perspectives about measurement theory & consciousness science 🤓
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

I'm very excited about the schedule of next week's workshop! 👇 Come join us via Zoom, in case of interest!

#ConSci

Preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of severity in Popper’s philosophy of science or when deviations are allowed - Synthese One justification for preregistering research hypotheses, methods, and analyses is that it improves the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests. In this article, I consider two cases in which preregistration does not improve this evaluation. First, I argue that, although preregistration may facilitate the transparent evaluation of severity in Mayo’s error statistical philosophy of science, it does not facilitate this evaluation in Popper’s theory-centric approach. To illustrate, I show that associated concerns about Type I error rate inflation are only relevant in the error statistical approach and not in a theory-centric approach. Second, I argue that a test procedure that is preregistered but that also allows deviations in its implementation (i.e., “a plan, not a prison”) does not provide a more transparent evaluation of Mayoian severity than a non-preregistered procedure. In particular, I argue that sample-based validity-enhancing deviations cause an unknown inflation of the test procedure’s Type I error rate and, consequently, an unknown reduction in its capability to license inferences severely. I conclude that preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of severity (a) in Popper’s philosophy of science or (b) in Mayo’s approach when deviations are allowed.

An #OpenAccess article in 'Synthese' examines whether preregistration improves the transparent evaluation of severity in hypothesis testing. bit.ly/3MMHbBM @markrubin.bsky.social #PhilSci

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.

In case you're interested in foundations of measurement in #ConSci, you're cordially invited to join our upcoming workshop!

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A huge thank you to my co-organizers @ronyhirsch.bsky.social and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social on this occasion! #ConSci

The Self-Evidencing Agent What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

"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...

Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization Abstract. During an acute episode of depersonalization/derealization (DP/DR), people report a complex and idiosyncratic change in their perceptual experien

🚨 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
🧠🧪

A copy of "The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing" by Jakob Howhy on a plain background. The cover features a simple one-line illustration of a profile of a character painting a line that stems from their foot.

Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq

The next article in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism is out: “Linking the structure of neuronal mechanisms to the structure of qualia” by A. Maier and N. Tsuchiya. It surveys the key literature leading up to a structural approach to consciousness and rates the current state of the filed.