Great to work with @franciscorr25.bsky.social and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness

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Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself?

We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social

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My paper on latent profile analysis of personality and mindfulness traits has been accepted by the ‪@elsevierconnect.bsky.social‬ Personality and Individual Differences journal! #watchthisspace #personality #mindfulness #meditation #research #psychology #latentprofiles

New episode! In this episode we are joined by Dr. Saurabh Sonkusare to learn about Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) 🧠 We hear about how DBS works and its uses in psychiatry and research 🔬

links in 🧵

@monash-m3cs.bsky.social

Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!

What does it mean to treat someone with dignity, as opposed to, say, treating them with respect? This experiment successfully tests the philosophical theory that ties dignity specifically to humiliation.
With @andrejevic.bsky.social and Linda Barclay
#philosophy
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FYI: our review on neurophenomenological approaches to meditation practices and their potential clinical applications, in collaboration with Oussama Abdoun, Yair Dor-Ziderman, @mathistrautwein.bsky.social, and Aviva Berkovich-Ohana! Below is the organizational framework. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...

Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias!

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Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.

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Why do we dream? 🤔Are they just random neural firings, or do they serve a deeper function? M3CS researcher & lecturer, Dr Manuela Kirberg, joins 'The Briefing' to unpack the science & philosophy of dreaming. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jo3...

'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)

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This work follows from our earlier analysis of embodied active inference & the role of rhythmic visceral dynamics in prenatal development

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While that work focused on the potential impact of visceral signals on neural development & perceptual learning, our new paper considers how the top-down regulation of such signals across multiple scales may engender agentic control, selfhood, & neurobehavioural diversity

My paper with Tim Bayne "Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion" is now up at Inquiry.

Our question: can large language model powered chatbots make assertions (can they state, claim or affirm things)?

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Can we explain deep meditative deconstruction via Buddhist defabrication, its phenomenology and the active inference framework?

New preprint of my work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, 'Towards an Active Inference Account of Deep Meditative Deconstruction'.

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I spoke to Jack Roycroft-Sherry about my research on contentless experience in meditation and other topics for his podcast: youtu.be/kpxvo3VnaGE

New Minds Matter episode! This week we speak to Dr. Aya Osman who researches how the gut microbiome influences our brain and behaviour. Dr Osman explains the role of the gut microbiome in addiction and autism and how we can study these connections.
www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s3-ep-8-your...

FYI: we have just reported in a randomised controlled trial that our 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults. Congratulation to Marco Schlosser and the Meditageing team, @SilverSanteEU, @MarchantLabUCL, x.com/uclnews/stat...