awesome cartoon about ethics in consciousness research made by my friend Will Mayner @wgpm.bsky.social – it's one of the finalists in a cartooning competition by organized by the Morgridge institute! if you like it, help him out by voting for it here: 🗳️ morgridge.org/story/ethics-c…

✨ 🔬 #OpenScope: A shared observatory for #neuroscience — is now accepting experimental proposals from external scientists. #openscience ☑️ Letter of Intent Due: 9/12/2022 ☑️ Proposal Due: 11/7/2022 Visit: alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/bra…

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David Chalmers Hi Dave, thanks, you raise a good question. The argument for IIT 3.0 is basically that with a von Neumann architecture, you'd need to either treat the CPU as background or as a constituent of one or more of the units of the PA being implemented, and: (1) Treating the CPU as a

Every scientist knows that the major journal publishers are rent-seeking rackets. They're now being sued on antitrust grounds: Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation – Lieff Cabraser lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

In case you missed it, the infamous “IIT is pseudoscience” letter has been published in Nature Neuroscience (rdcu.be/ecZIL), along with our reply (rdcu.be/ec7QV) and an excellent nonpartisan commentary from Àlex Gómez-Marín and Anil Seth (rdcu.be/ec7XF)

Beyond accommodation: on the structural turn in computational functionalist theories of consciousness url:academic.oup.com/nc/article/202… Francesco Ellia , Naotsugu Tsuchiya

[informal journal club] Intrinsic meaning, meaning, perception and matching Chengky, Froese lab Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU) youtu.be/OnfoYV74LTk?si… via YouTube Original paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.21111 by William G. P. Mayner, Bjørn Erik Juel, Giulio Tononi

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 1: Christof Koch: Introduction to Consciousness and Brain youtu.be/rfYX8YVK7HQ?si… via YouTube

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 3: Billy Marshall: Intrinsic units - a framework for macro cause-effect power youtu.be/HritMEc28-o?si… via YouTube

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 3 Matteo Grasso: Why space feels like extended? youtu.be/Lytpq56ffMU?si… via YouTube

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 3 Alex Maier & Muneki Ikeda: Empirical computation of IIT 4.0 youtu.be/Yj3qOb1vdvE?si… via YouTube

[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 5 Matteo Grasso: Structure of Temporal Experience youtu.be/uOpjHQIH7PQ?si… via YouTube This is the last talk for this summer school 2025.