AI vision is insanely good nowadays—but is it really like human vision or something else entirely? In our new pre-print, we pinpoint a fundamental visual mechanism that's trivial for humans yet causes most models to fail spectacularly. Let's dive in👇🧠 [arxiv.org/abs/2504.05253]

Our new discovery reveals how anesthesia causes unconsciousness. This advances our understanding of consciousness and can help make anesthesia safer.

You can now submit a commentary on our paper here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…. We're very much looking forward to reading your commentaries and discussing our hypothesis with you!

1/ Can AI be conscious? My @BBSjournal target article on ‘Conscious AI and biological naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The deadline for commentary proposals (just ~500 words) for our paper Behav. Brain. Sci. is June 28! You can submit it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/….

five excellent talks from the NYU workshop on functions of consciousness last month. speakers: dylan ludwig (who also organized), joshua shepherd (Conscious Action), Matthias Michel, marisa carrasco (The Carrasco Lab), and Axel Cleeremans. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Submit your proposal to comment by EOD tomorrow: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Read the full paper: cambridge.org/core/services/…

🎈 Out now: 🎈 "The capacity limits of moving objects in the imagination" (by Balaban & me) of interest to people thinking about the imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, capacity limits, and more nature.com/articles/s4146…

What Is Analog Computing? You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them. quantamagazine.org/what-is-analog… #neuroscience Your brain computes without 1s and 0s