New episode of the Fathom the Mind podcast: I spoke with philosopher of science Prof. Michel Bitbol about phenomenology, the “hard problem” of consciousness, and why revisiting common assumptions may be exactly what scientists need to make progress.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ynr...
What is the objective world? Prof. Piet Hut on the history of material science.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZC...
On the first episode of Fathom the Mind, a new podcast produced by @the-ccr.bsky.social, Prof. Piet Hut discusses his new research program to bridge matter and mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOD...
#consci #contemplativesci
Episode 2 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGa...
I’ve been wondering the same!
Here is a relevant piece by Matthew Butterick:
practicaltypography.com/billionaires...
This online series of talks regarding contemplative science begins in two days.
If you're interested in #meditation #yoga #breathwork #psychedelics or other #mindbody research, this is your conference! Stay tuned for more info. #contemplativeresearch #contemplativescience #contemplativeneuroscience
Thank you for sharing!
reminder that you can attend this great symposium on zoom! talks from heavy hitters, just a stellar lineup. grateful to be included. tomorrow & friday, Jan 16-17, pacific time. #neuroskyence #psychscisci #consciousness #neuroscience #philosophy #theory #psychology
www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...
I‘ll be giving a talk titled “What is contemplative science?” on February 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. PST, as part of the online series The Dawn of Contemplative Science, hosted by Les Cèdres Bleus.
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
I'm grateful to have won the Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind! And it's for "A Theory of Sense-Data," where I defend one of the most unpopular, ill-reputed, and disparaged views in all of philosophy. philpapers.org/rec/LEEATO-3
…or artificial conation, for that matter.
doi.org/10.1002/1520...
A hand-drawn diagram showing the relationship between the objective physical world and the subjective, mental world of a person.
For anyone interested in the mind, I strongly recommend Prof. Piet Hut’s new blog “FEST” (= Fully Engaged Science and Technology — or, alternatively, Fully Empirical Science and Technology).
piethut.substack.com
“The crucial point here is that we do not have empirical access to any form of matter, where empirical is defined as given in experience”
—Piet Hut
piethut.substack.com/p/empirical-...
In a new chapter published by Routledge, B. Alan Wallace and I discuss how professional contemplatives can work with neuroscientists, psychologists, and even physicists—not just as study participants, but as true colleagues who help frame the research.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#consci
"Nobody pulls out a clock to know what time is, only what time it is." Robert Crease's perfect summary of our analysis of time (including the Bergson vs Einstein debate) in The Blind Spot. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
Now out in Nature: Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri.bsky.social and edited by the supremely talented Mary Elizabeth Sutherland
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Not only does this imply that we have to take consistency of mathematics, as we understand it today, on faith. It also suggests that there’s actually no objective criterion as to which axioms we should choose for doing mathematics.”
iai.tv/articles/mat...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwC...
“…avoid the thought that a new metaphysical understanding would invalidate any of science. It may invalidate some assumptions you made about how those scientific observations come to be. But the observations reflect true regularities…” —Bernardo Kastrup
“Considerable non-replication is thus to be expected even with the best reporting practices, and generalizations from single studies are rarely if ever warranted. … And that means we should treat statistical results as being much more incomplete and uncertain than is currently the norm.”
“Thus, a clear-cut distinction between subjective and objective measurements is neither advantageous nor useful, provided that the correct methodology is applied to rule out possible biases and other phenomena.”
—Fabrizio Benedetti
Placebo Effects, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2014.
#consci
“In this view, reality is not a pre-written script but a participatory drama, with each observer playing a crucial role in shaping their experience. As Fuchs put it in a lecture earlier this year, in QBism, ‘when I take an action on the world, something genuinely new comes out.’”
#consciousness
“Even within the subfield of neuroscience where talk of consciousness is accepted, the number of scientists actually working with an open mind on new scientific theories of consciousness is extremely small.”
#consciousness
MIT Press now has all the blurbs up for our book The Blind Spot!
A screenshot of text that reads in part: "With its expansion, the Home Test to Treat program will now offer free testing, telehealth and treatment for both COVID-19 and for influenza (flu) A and B. It is the first public health program that includes home testing technology at such a scale for both COVID-19 and flu. The program initially will provide the LUCIRA® by Pfizer COVID-19 & Flu Home Test, the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration-authorized test that can detect both viruses in a single test at home. For those indicated, treatment must begin within a limited window from onset of symptoms, underscoring the importance of continuity of care, from diagnosis to treatment. In addition, providing these services virtually, while individuals remain at home, is intended to expedite the time to treatment and the convenience of accessing services virtually from home. Any adult (18 years and older) with a current positive test for COVID-19 or flu can enroll to receive free telehealth care
Are you feeling sick?
NIBIB says it has expanded its free "Home Test to Treat program" beyond just COVID-19
Adults will now be able to get Pfizer's Lucira molecular home tests, which were authorized by FDA earlier this year for both COVID-19 and influenza
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
(2/2) Some researchers argue that we can’t know what people subjectively experience. All we know is what people *think* they experience. This drives skepticism towards consciousness research. I show that these worries are unwarranted. We can objectively know what people see.
(1/2) I have a new paper related to the problem of objectively determining what people consciously experience. It's here: philpapers.org/rec/MICTOA-2. Published in a book coming out soon on 'Conscious and Unconscious Mentality'. The book looks really great!
