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I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again

Still wondering why we are conscious? Come help us attack the #Hard_Problem by joining our European Research Council (ERC) EXPERIENCE team. We are looking for a nerdy postdoc who knows fMRI and for a “motivated” Ph.D student. Post-doc ➡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/14/pos… Ph.D. ➡️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2023/09/28/phd…

Congratulations and reminder that no one found this work this relevant before 2020. The biggest breakthroughs cannot be anticipated. Making academia a space where people like Karikó and Weissman can pursue curiosity-driven research is instrumental.

On the fence whether you should submit your abstract? Wait no longer, and submit today! Deadline is tomorrow, and we're looking forward to reading your contribution!

The spread of LLMs has accelerated debates on whether AI could be conscious. While experts have weighed in on this issue, in a new study (preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…) we surveyed the general population on whether they attributed consciousness to LLMs. A thread: (1/n)

“Millions are dead around the world and the most likely cause is an accident during a risky experiment in a laboratory. Should we not be learning lessons from that?” MUST READ new piece by ⁦Matt Ridley⁩. spiked-online.com/2023/12/20/the…

Ours too 😀 thanks ++

We just lost a titan of philosophy. Cheers to Dennett.

We have a small armada of presentations at the forthcoming ASSC27, with a symposium, three talks and four posters lined up 😃🇯🇵⚡️. Details and schedule here: erc-xp.ulb.be/2024/06/25/erc…

Has anyone cracked 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (good/bad)? Evolutionary argument seems necessary. But there will always be some who argue that it does not explain why it *feels* bad or good. So we're back to the starting point of having to determine why anything has to feel like something...

Here's our latest initiative to make research on consciousness engaging for young readers!👧👦 We just published an open-access paper in Frontiers for Young Minds 🌟 with contributions by Inès Mentec, Léa Moncoucy and Axel Cleeremans from our team. 👏 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

This study offers empirical support for one of the core claims of EXPERIENCE: affective processing requires awareness

So happy to see our paper finally out in Current Biology ! 🥳 Link: cell.com/current-biolog…

My first monograph is going to the printer next week! For those interested in William James, pragmatism, decapitated frogs, mechanical automata, hemipelegic patients, self-experimentation involving wads of putty shoved into one's own eyeball sockets, etc; the usual fare.

ChatGPT refuses to say the name “David Mayer,” and no one knows why. If you try to get it to write the name, the chat immediately ends. People have attempted all sorts of things - ciphers, riddles, tricks - and nothing works.

Had a blast with CIFAR buddies in Cancun. It was great fun and very exciting science program. Got to meet so many students during the Winter School on Consciousness. Anil Seth Guillaume Dumas Prof. Adrian M. Owen OBE, FRS Christopher Krupenye megan peters 🧠 Liad Mudrik Michael Levin Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social

Really glad and honoured to have been part of this cohort of CIFAR Winter School on the neuroscience of consciousness. It was really an amazing experience, both the science and the warmth of this community.