A thread on the new Behav. Brain. Sci. paper “The Emperor’s new Markov blankets,” a critical assessment of Markov blankets in the free energy principle literature, by @JBruineberg, @krysdolega, Joe Dewhurst, and Manuel Baltieri x.com/JBruineberg/st… 1/23

Love to see another learn-to-jhana journey! Second-order effects often dwarf first-order effects, and the jhanas are no exception -- the mentality of abundance that comes from pleasure on-demand could be the biggest mental health win we see in our generation.

Out at last..! Receptor-informed network control theory links LSD and psilocybin to a flattening of the brain's control energy landscape. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Having "multiple selves" helps learning agents explore and adapt in complex changing worlds In non-stationary environment, training a single RL agent < training multiple with different objectives biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tulpamancy, EEG studies of Jhāna, heartfeltness, and a crumpled up poster from across the sea… Some highlight from today at #ISCR2023 🍄✨🧠

A phenomenologist goes into a room mostly full of cognitive neuroscientists and starts rambling on about transcendental constitution...

On Monday 13th March (6pm GMT) Jonas Mago will join us at UCL for a talk on #jhana meditation - join online or in-person🧘‍♀️

Maybe the generative passages Francisco Varela kept talking about were the friends we made along the way...

Our new preprint lead by Jonas Mago is a promising step towards formally modelling pure awareness using active inference. A brief 🧵

Well done Jonas Mago!!! Check out their new computational framework using Bayesian Binding to understand minimal phenomenological experiences🧘‍♀️

⚠️ Photosensitivity Warning: 5-MeO-DMT Replication by Symmetric Vision

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 What happens when consciousness is stripped to its core? Explore the review of Thomas Metzinger's The Elephant and the Blind! 🧠✨ Book Review The Minimality-Opacity Paradox osf.io/preprints/psya…

Stoked to announce another podcast release: --> Dialogues with/avec Laure Marin de la Vallée --> Presence and Consciousness in Theory and Practice dialoguespodcast.com/episodes/jonas…

Today, we're excited to announce a beta release of Zonos, a highly expressive TTS model with high fidelity voice cloning. We release both transformer and SSM-hybrid models under an Apache 2.0 license. Zonos performs well vs leading TTS providers in quality and expressiveness.