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The deadline for abstract submissions for the NYU conference on infant consciousness is this Friday, December 20th. If you work on this topic, please consider submitting an abstract for a talk or a poster. philevents.org/event/show/127…

three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out, two mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one mainly on VR. contributors include Peter Godfrey-Smith Eric Schwitzgebel Susan Schneider Jörg Noller and others offline. for the articles and replies see consc.net/papers/reality….

first ever meeting of the society for philosophy and neuroscience, coming up may 1-3 in st louis!

a workshop focused on my work in philosophy and cognitive science, arranged by SEFA Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica (the spanish society for analytic philosophy), on tenerife in the canary islands, june 25-27 this year. submissions are welcome!

a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability. arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740

innie and outie: one person or two?

try an original-style three-player turing test online!

the conference on infant consciousness at NYU this friday-saturday is going to be great. if you can't attend in person, there will be a live stream. eventbrite.com/e/1217079149499

an excellent Science Magazine article on pre-natal consciousness, based on the recent NYU conference on infant consciousness. featuring thoughts from Claudia Passos, Prof Lorina Naci, and others, with a cameo role for our survey of views on infant consciousness. science.org/content/articl…

we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878

seven years after an initial meeting in seattle in march 2018, the results of the ARC-COGITATE adversarial collaboration on theories of consciousness have just been published in nature. congratulations to the whole cogitate team! nature.com/articles/s4158…

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” Paul Middlebrooks talks with Oscar Ferrante, Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre about putting integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories of consciousness to the test. Listen now: thetransmitter.org/brain-inspired…

talking VR with Professor Dad in fargo, ND philosophyinpubliclife.org/2025/05/11/is-…

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=…

i guess that makes me the holy ghost.