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Borjan (Boki) Milinković

@neuromorphicboki.bsky.social

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Mathematical Neuroscientist. Biologically Inclined. Postdoctoral Researcher @ NeuroPsi (CNRS, Paris-Saclay). Modelling psychedelic- and stimulation-induced shifts in consciousness. Theorising about computation, causation, information, and emergence.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Jul 20

📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜

I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics"
[email protected] @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter

Strap in!
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Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics

Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales--from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, id...

www.biorxiv.org

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 14h

“A musician finding his ear become every day more delicate, and correcting himself by reflection and attention, proceeds with the same act of the mind, even when the subject fails him, and entertains a notion of a compleat tierce or octave..”

Hume, 1739, presaging predictive processing

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Andres Canales-Johnson @canalesjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Thrilled to share our new study: “Distilling the neurophenomenological signatures of pure awareness during Transcendental Meditation”, combining subjective reports with large-scale screening of neural features to investigate pure awareness. Thread below! 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 15d

The eternally flagrant optimist in me would like to believe that this work will have far-reaching impact.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 15d

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
plos.io/3VwaU2O

Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

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Enrico @enricocaprioglio.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 How do collective behaviours (high-order interdependencies) *emerge*❓

Can systems with low-order interactions do it?
What do these minimal synergistic systems look like?

In arxiv.org/abs/2505.246... we show when and how synergies emerge when no high-order mechanisms are involved.

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Synergistic Motifs in Gaussian Systems

High-order interdependencies are central features of complex systems, yet a mechanistic explanation for their emergence remains elusive. Currently, it is unknown under what conditions high-order inter...

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SPACE Lab @spacelabimt.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 New preprint 🚨
"Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure

Perceived sleep depth is a key determinant of subjective sleep quality, traditionally thought to reflect unconsciousness and reduced cortical activation. Here, we combined high-density EEG with a seri...

doi.org

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 29d

Throwing this one into the virtual void in the hope there are a few hapless souls interested:

Would anyone like to participate in an #Information #Geometry reading/journal/study club? Preferably in person, if you're in Paris.

But, would consider doing an online one *for sure*.

Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Sep 10

But it does, however, look exactly like the long black coffee ;-)

Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Sep 10

Brighton feels as good as I remember it.

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Sep 4

🧠 New preprint! 🧠

As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on:

Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep
osf.io/preprints/ps...

with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social

A brief 🧵!

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Sep 3

This really does sound amazing. I'll be looking into this.

Also, I absolutely love the colour pallette. :-)

Congratulations!

Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Sep 3

This looks pretty cool: ultrasound can now see through the skull! 🧠🔊

The skull has long been a barrier to ultrasound. This reprint shows how to make it quickly transparent → enabling full-depth, high-res fUSI in mice (& humans! 🤯🤯)
Huge congrats to the authors!!!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Sep 3

📜 ¡New preprint! 📜

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including:
@zefanzheng.bsky.social
@robertchisciure.bsky.social
@jaanaru.bsky.social
@bechir-jarraya.bsky.social

OSF

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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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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 22

The rise of the machines or the age of digital-infantilism?

I tried a thing..

Here I write on the current digital-situation we find ourselves in. With an optimistic view on our future, with wider-reaching - and hopefully biologically-centred - aspirations.

It's fun, general, and personal writing

The rise of the machines or the age of digital-infantilism?

Will technology make us organismic zombies, or is it all, just techno-noise?

open.substack.com

Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 19

If #emergence is your thing, and, even if it isn't, here is a great annual workshop -- now on its third iteration(!) -- where you will get to hear some great presenters, of which, I am the least interesting.

Really looking forward to it!!
@sussexcogs.bsky.social

Enrico @enricocaprioglio.bsky.social · Aug 19

Third edition of the emergence workshop is almost here!

You can register using the QR code on the poster

Any questions, you can message me here or send an email!

sussexcogs.bsky.social @sussexcogs.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 19

Today, Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu write in the @nytimes.com on the necessity for a deflation of idolising #AGI. Great piece.

Opinion | Silicon Valley Needs to Stop Obsessing Over Superhuman A.I.

www.nytimes.com

Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 17

Agree! I think the challenge, and the secret, lies in the *degree* of 'similar-enough' 🤗

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 17

So wait, they are or they aren't important? If they enable specific processes, doesn't that imply they are important?

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 17

Precisely my question, what criteria of biological naturalism do others think is necessary, sufficient, or even just interesting to explore..(?) 🤓

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 17

Would this by a biologically-centred position you’d be willing to buy into?

Nothing magical—just something specific to only biology (as we currently know it), but does not need to remain so.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 17

Haha, no, not necessarily. Doesn’t have to be qualified with ‘special’. 😊

Let’s say, there are biomechanisms that are engineer-able. But that you don’t get with current systems. Those engineer-able mechanisms might be precisely those that operate in systems like us—wet packets of biochemistry.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 17

What about rather than life itself, it is rather some #features of life processes that are also core ingredients for the soup of consciousness?

And, I’d be interested to hear what would be a good argument #for biocentrism—as I do agree, we should avoid just replacing one magic, with another..

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 17

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 12

Great article by @markdhumphries.bsky.social here. Humphries’ work had a significant impact on my thinking. This is precisely what we attempt to do in our recent preprint, and in previous published neural modelling work.

I’m sympathetic to the focus on dynamics in coarse graining.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · Aug 11

The post Rick Bretzel reposts is one I am enamoured by as I currently read the paper myself.

I completely agree with Rick that slow, and thoughtful science is the way forward. Not everything, everywhere, all at once.

It reminds me that in a world levelled by noise, the quiet resounds furthest

Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've been thinking a lot about the preprint in terms of my own career. I grew up academically in computational labs. My papers were abstract early on and they only got more abstract as I progressed. The model was: find a new exciting mathematical tool. Apply it to brain imaging data. Write it up. 1/

Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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