Finally got access to #DALLE, thought I'd use it to solve all the hard problems in consciousness science using art. 🧵 First up: "experimental setup for 'brain in a vat'" 1/9

The last day of ASSC25 Amsterdam starting with an excellent symposium - presented by @ADemertzi, Antoine Lutz, and Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research's @thandrillon and Jennifer Windt - bringing together their fascinating work on contentless experience! ASSC

Ahead of tonight's Colour and Consciousness panel with Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research, we spoke to film colourist CJ Dobson who has helped set the mood for some of Australia’s favourite TV shows, including Love Me and The Newsreader. wheelercentre.com/wlr-articles/c…

And.. we’re on! Present Sense: Colour and Consciousness panel discussion begins. The Wheeler Centre Hilary Harper Consciousness - tlab Faculty of Fine Arts and Music

MBI Webinar - Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness with Prof Nao Tsuchiya 📅Wed 31 August 2022 ⏰12:30pm More info and register bit.ly/3P9AJQk Nao Tsuchiya Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

New work from the lab - the first empirical paper from Devon's PhD thesis (Devon Stoliker) which looks at the neural basis of LSD-induced ego-dissolution. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A short thread 🧵 1/5

I will give a talk at Monash Biomedical Imaging webinar "Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness" 📅Wed 31 Aug 2022 ⏰12:30pm For zoom, please register bit.ly/3P9AJQk For Youtube live it's here youtu.be/Z4e5D1aeM6A

MMCR’s Hinze Hogendoorn & Anthony Burkitt get an honourable mention in Charlie Sexton’s talk. University of Melbourne Psychological Sciences See below! 👇

We're hiring a postdoc. The project is about understanding principles of learning in biological & artificial neural networks, a collaboration w Anil Seth, Yoshua Bengio Blake Richards careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/… CIFAR Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Cortical Labs Mila - Institut québécois d'IA Please RT

Our paper “Foraging for the self: Environment selection for agency inference”, more fondly known as the Beach study 🏖️🩴, is out today in Psych Bull & Rev! OA: link.springer.com/article/10.375… Jonathan E. Robinson Jakob Hohwy Cognition and Philosophy Lab Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies A thread 🧵:

DishBrain paper is out out now today in Neuron. It is such a great collaboration with Cortical Labs and Brett J. Kagan “In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world” cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health CIFAR

Jakob Hohwy and @BrigidHains untangle our ‘self-evidencing’ selves at Sophia Club Melbourne today @brunswickballroomaus @sophiaclub_live Tenzin Choegyal

A wonderful evening with Jakob Hohwy, Tenzin Choegyal, @BrigidHains and Maria Moles discussing and improvising with all things concerning self and the predictive mind at Sophia Club Melbourne tonight @brunswickballroomaus @sophiaclub_live Aeon Magazine Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies

Andrew Corcoran Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad Jonathan E. Robinson Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social Daniel Yon Emily Thomas @flodlan @leilamlarson And here's a working link to the preprint: psyarxiv.com/mnu8b/

Fascinating and collaborative MMCR effort at answering profound questions of the embodied aspects of cognition in a predictive processing framework! Well done team!

Some beautiful results from recent transdisciplinary projects on the topic of selfhood. We all had an incredible time at the symposium!

'We think of personal transformations as big, loud and sudden, but sometimes it builds from a whisper' Our very own Jenny Windt explores this idea in a must-read article via Psyche Magazine 👏

What is the deepest stillness/silence people report experiencing in meditation, and are there differences across practices? My new paper with Jennifer Windt, Lydia Brown, Olivia Carter, and Nicholas Van Dam, out now in Mindfulness! link.springer.com/article/10.100… Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies Contemplative Studies Centre 🧵

Don't miss out on Thomas A Carlson's talk at the upcoming Roundtable talk series on 31st Aug 11am! Details via the link. psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/hubs/…