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Away we go for UQ Compassion Symposium 2024!! Dr Chase Sherwell kicking off the day! And Stan Steindl and I are very excited

Computational model of the enduring effects of psilocybin, via the optimism bias, and w/fitting of behavioural data (from rats) to active inference model. Led by @bethfisher_1, in collaboration between Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies, Claire Foldi Lab and Ryan Smith (@rssmith.bsky.social) OA👇

A very unique and intriguing approach to understanding some of our #psilocybin-mediated changes in learning. By PhD student @bethfisher_1 & the inimitable Jakob Hohwy with valuable input from very clever colleagues 😏

A hierarchical Bayesian model reveals increased precision weighting for afferent cardiac signals, and reduced anxiety, as a function of interoceptive training - interesting new work from Sarah Garfinkel Ryan Smith (@rssmith.bsky.social) and colleagues. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New results from the lab in collaboration with Alex Maier and Allen Institute via #OpenScope: x.com/biorxiv_neursc… We tested key hypotheses made by popular Predictive Coding (PC) theories with Multi-Area, High-Density Laminar Neurophysiology (MaDeLaNe) in mice and monkeys.

Very cool new illusion and accompanying paper from Joe Melling Hinze Hogendoorn and William Turner

Article: "A Mathematical Perspective on Neurophenomenology" Coauthors: Lancelot Da Costa Lars Sandved Smith Maxwell Ramstead Anil Seth arxiv.org/abs/2409.20318

Psilocybin may lead to increased optimism, rat study suggests medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-p…

PhD candidate with Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies, @bethfisher_1, spoke to IFLScience about their research into psilocybin improving optimism bias in rats and how this has potential for treatment of depression in humans. Read more about what's been discovered: iflscience.com/psilocybin-mak…

📢📜 NEW PREPRINT ANNOUNCEMENT! 📜📢 What if the brain’s hidden dynamics could reveal how our thoughts and consciousness emerge from complex neural activity? Here’s our first step toward this, w/ Lionel Barnett, Olivia Carter, Anil Seth, & @thandrillon. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

frontiersin.org/journals/psych… New paper on IIT's ontological implications led by Ignacio Cea. Together with Camilo Miguel Signorelli, we're working on a broader project investigating the complex connection IIT draws between consciousness and existence - let us know what you think :)

✨New ep✨ How do our identities shift over time? Dr. Pauline Ho discusses 3 pathways of identity formation—consolidating, cumulative, & transformative. A great example of how qualitative work can deepen our understanding of identity’s complexities! tinyurl.com/mindsmatters4e5

Exciting news! 📺 The Monash Pregnancy Study featured on 7NEWS Australia last night! Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad and I had a fantastic experience sharing our research journey and the importance of studying matrescence in neuroscience youtu.be/NMYfkDy54Yg?si…

Super excited to share our new preprint, led by my supervisor Franziska Knolle in collaboration with Verena Demler, @Lucy_MacG & Chris Mathys, friend of abundance: 💡Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate osf.io/preprints/psya… A thread 🧵:

Thrilled to see this study officially published in eLife - the journal. Link here: elifesciences.org/articles/92820 and 🧵 below. Huge thanks to Dr. Emily Adamic Emily Adamic, believe it or not, this study was a small part of her overall PhD thesis!

🏆 Congratulations to the BPS Book Award 2024 winners! This year's winners Monty Lyman, Prof Pete Etchells, Charlotte Pennington, Chris Frith, and Uta Frith showcase the variety and depth that exists in psychology publishing. Explore their books: bps.org.uk/news/congratul…

New results by Hamed Nejat (HamEdNejat) to celebrate the New Year: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We used a new learning rule to train biophysical networks to express dynamics in neural data. A push-pull dynamic emerged between beta&gamma rhythms: the basis for Predictive Routing. Congrats, Hamed!

🚨 New publication 🚨 Excited to share our recent preprint “A mathematical perspective on neurophenomenology,” written in collaboration with Lancelot Da Costa, Lars Sandved Smith, Anil Seth, and Karl Friston 1/5 arxiv.org/abs/2409.20318

new paper! intrinsically aligned superintelligence via “wise world models” using 4 axiomatic principles: mindfulness | emptiness | non-duality | boundless care d=0.96 effect on the AILuminate benchmark + a suite of contemplative implementations for LLMs & active inference 👇

Awesome to work with Ruben Laukkonen, fionni , Shamil Chandaria , Jakob Hohwy , Lars Sandved Smith and J. Gold on this Starting a new Intrinsic AI Alignment research program, implementing buddhist wisdom Really excited by all the possibilities - please DM if interested in future research