Why does consciousness (C) seem distinct from the physical--because it IS, or only SEEMS so? Here, I show that C intuitions shift--C sometimes seems nonphysical and sometimes physical. C intuitions, then, cannot be trusted to speak to what C is. academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…

Is your #brain playing tricks on you? 🧠 Here's how our #brains trick us into thinking consciousness can reside outside the body: ⤵️ bit.ly/3K3Iw2f

Cognitive science proposes plausible explanations of behavior. But did you know that some behavioral patterns logically imply that certain neural representations *must* exist? New paper w/ Randy Gallistel. Implications for neuroscience and machine learning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

It was wonderful chatting with the great David Edmonds !

Sad news to share. I was expecting Walid Saba to present a talk to my lab this past Thursday. Walid never showed up. I'm told he passed away. It's a terrible loss. He was a deeply thoughtful, original and independent scholar. I miss him greatly.

Here is a recent, interesting paper of his. I hope you will remember him by his words. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/no-ge…

How could #consciousness arise from physical brains? Here is why this "hard problem" is difficult. The reasons are demonstrably psychological. A new piece in Nautilus. nautil.us/consciousness-…

GPT's hallucinations drive me nuts. Not particularly surprising, but still....

A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping in a traditional society with no formal math, the Himba of Namibia #Number #MentalNumberLine Our paper on Nature Communications Elena @JosserandMathi1 Serge Esther Boissin #marcobuiatti #manuelapiazza nature.com/articles/s4146…

Is #dualism shaped by formative life experiences? This new paper shows that transgender people are far more likely to align the self with the mind than cisgender individuals. We conclude that the #sex-#gender contrast is partly a mind-body contrast. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Bravo!

The gender-sex incongruence is partly a mind–body incongruence | Interesting finding on the cognitive intuitions behind gender identity, by my longtime psycholinguistics collaborator Iris Berent and my Harvard Psychology colleague Jill Hooley | Scientific Reports

Thank you Steven Pinker for the kind words. These data really surprised me. The bottom line: there is so much more to transgender identity than sex (or gender)!

Great symposium on consciousness intuitions and illusions with ⁦David Chalmers⁩, ⁦Clara Colombatto⁩ and Matan Mazor at the ASSC, Crete.

Many people claim they are staunch physicalists. But when given a brief implicit association task, it turns out they are closet dualists. Thanks Gary Marcus for challenging us! Out in Open Mind. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…