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Matan Mazor @matanmazor.bsky.social · 3d

Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations

my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field.

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 5d

New paper on Predictive Processing is forthcoming in Biology & Philosophy. The basic gist of the paper is: Predictive processing, in its most ambitiously unificatory form, entails equipotentialism.
Preprint and full abstract below

#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

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Toby Woods @tobyjwoods.bsky.social · 12d

How does one do nothing skilfully? Can one get something of this skill in a single 15 min session? Is this first session aversive and difficult, as people commonly find doing nothing, or is it calming and easy? Our new preprint on Do Nothing meditation answers these questions! 🧵

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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 16d

A commentary would be great in any case! Looking forward to your comments and thank you for reading it 😊

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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 18d

It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!

Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 18d

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Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social

Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction

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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 18d

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Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social

Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction

www.cambridge.org

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Marco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 22d

Don't miss the ISPSM 2025 - register here
#philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy

ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 22d

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨

Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

#philmind #philsci #philsky

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Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social · 21d

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University

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Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · 21d

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 22d

You can now register to this year's ISPSM *online* conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

Great line-up of keynote speakers and symposia, plus a fabulous and diverse program covering all phil of mind - don't miss it!

#consci #philmind #philsci

Conference :: Internationalassociationphilosophyofsciencesofmind

3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

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ispsm @ispsm.bsky.social · 22d

✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨

Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

#philmind #philsci #philsky

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 26d

The MIT Consciousness Club will have a Zoom option for those who would like to join online. First session Friday, Sept 19, 12pm-1:30pm. For more, see: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... You can register to the email list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

MIT Consciousness Club Mailing List

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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 28d

👇Strongly recommended! (Both the program and the lab)

Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 29d

Interested on working with me on consciousness?… this scholarship is an excellent opportunity to do so. Contact me and let’s think about exciting projects we can do together!
Please share 🙏
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Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 29d

A Kantian take on Integrated Information Theory - newly published in Philosophical Explorations by our very own @robertchisciure.bsky.social - and its #OpenAccess too 🎉👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13869795.2025.2550245

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 28d

Why does time feel the way it does? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Toward a principled account of temporal experience
Author links open overlay panel Renzo Comolatti, Matteo Grasso , Giulio Tononi

Why does time feel the way it does? Toward a principled account of temporal experience

Time flows—or at least the time of our experience does. Can we provide an objective account of why the conscious present encompasses a succession of m…

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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · Sep 14

New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n]

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(PDF) Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions

PDF | Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks, structuralist vs. functionalist, universal vs. local,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Finnur Dellsén @dellsen.bsky.social · Sep 12

A weirdly underappreciated problem about Inference to the Best Explanation is how it can handle uncertain evidence. This new paper, now forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, proposes a strategy for doing that (and argues that Einstein may have used it). #philsky #philsci

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Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Inferring to the Best Explanation from Uncertain Evidence

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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · Sep 11

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract

Come join this exciting community of researchers

Nov 24-25 - Register now!

#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky

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ASPP 2025 Melbourne

Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · Sep 8

@ronyhirsch.bsky.social beautifully presents her new results on tilt adaptation in the visual periphery AND outside focused attention at #iVSS (work with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) 👏👏👏

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andymckilliam.bsky.social @andymckilliam.bsky.social · Sep 4

New paper with @ManuKirberg 💭
Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward.
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Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis

Until recently, mental imagery has largely been regarded as an exclusively conscious phenomenon. However, recent empirical results suggest that mental…

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Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · Sep 3

The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now

arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555

Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review

As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr...

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Minds Matter Podcast @mindsmatter.bsky.social · Aug 31

New episode!! Dr. Anikó Kusztor joins us this week to discuss the results of dissociation, and how they vary from person to person. Link in 🧵

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!

Minds Matter Podcast @mindsmatter.bsky.social · Aug 31

New episode!! Dr. Anikó Kusztor joins us this week to discuss the results of dissociation, and how they vary from person to person. Link in 🧵

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Moritz Kriegleder @mokriegleder.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks for the great discussion on studies of consciousness during EPSA25 at @rug.nl! Had a blast in this gorgeous building and seeing all these diverse approaches to philosophy of science.

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wanjawiese.bsky.social @wanjawiese.bsky.social · Aug 14

New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness

Building blocks for theories of consciousness

Consciousness science is brimming with theories attempting to explain what consciousness is and how it can be identified in natural and artificial sys…

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