andrew haun
@andrewhaun.bsky.social
scientist at UW-Madison: vision science, psychophysics, visual neuroscience, consciousness, integrated information theory
https://sites.google.com/site/amhaun01/
https://sites.google.com/site/amhaun01/
ugggghhh why do i keep agreeing to review philosophy papers uggghhhh
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
ugggghhh why do i keep agreeing to review philosophy papers uggghhhh
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
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December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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New - my first piece for @science.org !
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time
Stunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave
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October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New - my first piece for @science.org !
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.
Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...
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Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate
The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
The unfathomable richness of seeing
Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level
summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more
than this – it is unfatho...
www.cell.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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this is really neat, but couldn't one argue that *all the low-level properties have changed*. every contrast has been rotated and translated - content at every position has been replaced with different content.
to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"
to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"
August 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
this is really neat, but couldn't one argue that *all the low-level properties have changed*. every contrast has been rotated and translated - content at every position has been replaced with different content.
to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"
to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level"
i mean, i get why these demos are interesting, but you know.. if "the rays are not coloured", then how could the paint be?
(point being, there aren't really 'blue things' or 'grey things', rather just 'blue appearances', etc)
(point being, there aren't really 'blue things' or 'grey things', rather just 'blue appearances', etc)
A beautiful painting from Georges de la Tour where the coat’s grey paint appears blue because of the dominant yellow colour in the canvas.
It took another two centuries for Eugène Chevreul to describe the laws of simultaneous contrast, used later by Vincent van Gogh, Sonia Delaunay, and others.
It took another two centuries for Eugène Chevreul to describe the laws of simultaneous contrast, used later by Vincent van Gogh, Sonia Delaunay, and others.
The new Georges de la Tour exhibition at the Jacquemart-André Museum has begun! A virtuoso technique used to meditate on the human condition.This coat of Saint Thomas contains no blue, only grey coulours; it is an optical illusion created by the adjacent yellow.
September 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
i mean, i get why these demos are interesting, but you know.. if "the rays are not coloured", then how could the paint be?
(point being, there aren't really 'blue things' or 'grey things', rather just 'blue appearances', etc)
(point being, there aren't really 'blue things' or 'grey things', rather just 'blue appearances', etc)
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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
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...
arxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
These LLM AIs are all suffering from a sort of synthetic Anton's syndrome - they have absolutely no capacity for spatial experience (or simulation of it) and yet are unaware of it - they have all the "high level" stuff you get from seeing, so why not behave as though it's *all* really there?
oh, nice write up in The Register about Illusion Illusions:
www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/v...
original paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613
www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/v...
original paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613
August 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
These LLM AIs are all suffering from a sort of synthetic Anton's syndrome - they have absolutely no capacity for spatial experience (or simulation of it) and yet are unaware of it - they have all the "high level" stuff you get from seeing, so why not behave as though it's *all* really there?
great thread but this is my favorite part
No doubt a State possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm, but that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed." Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n
August 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
great thread but this is my favorite part
At first I read this blurb and got all defensive and nitpicky about the obvious misconception of "seeing in N colors" - like "no, color vision is N-d but not in N colors" - but then I thought about it a moment and I think I really like this way of putting it
Birds can see in four colors - red, green, blue, and ultraviolet - which suggests that they exist in a sensory world far richer than our own. Tune in to "The Joy of Why" with co-host @jannalevinastro.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/do-beautiful...
Do Beautiful Birds Have an Evolutionary Advantage? | Quanta Magazine
Richard Prum explains why he thinks feathers and vibrant traits in birds evolved not solely for survival, but also through aesthetic choice.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
At first I read this blurb and got all defensive and nitpicky about the obvious misconception of "seeing in N colors" - like "no, color vision is N-d but not in N colors" - but then I thought about it a moment and I think I really like this way of putting it
this method is neat and i want to learn to use it; but seems to me that the study is basically a demonstration that orientation is really important for recognition (like.. yeah!?)
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
this method is neat and i want to learn to use it; but seems to me that the study is basically a demonstration that orientation is really important for recognition (like.. yeah!?)
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i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots
Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.
July 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots
Good night, sweet prince of Darkness
July 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Good night, sweet prince of Darkness
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I spent an hour this morning procrastinating by writing this one pager "(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia"
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(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia
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June 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I spent an hour this morning procrastinating by writing this one pager "(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia"
osf.io/hr6w5/?view_...
osf.io/hr6w5/?view_...
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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
great piece, makes me think about how much and in what ways this same critique applies to experimental psychology (with all its brain data and brain explanations) and, in particular, to study of consciousness (having just returned from #ASSC28, I can attest to there being *lots* of "brain talk"....)
Is headache an aspirin-deficiency disease?
Combining history of neuroscience and probability to refute monoamine hypotheses of mental disorders
Given the more than 100 neurotransmitters in the mammalian brain...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Combining history of neuroscience and probability to refute monoamine hypotheses of mental disorders
Given the more than 100 neurotransmitters in the mammalian brain...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
www.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
great piece, makes me think about how much and in what ways this same critique applies to experimental psychology (with all its brain data and brain explanations) and, in particular, to study of consciousness (having just returned from #ASSC28, I can attest to there being *lots* of "brain talk"....)
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Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
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Contribute to #NCONSC, the journal of the @theassc.bsky.social, by becoming a reviewer!
Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible.
To make things simpler, fill in this quick form to register your interest in reviewing for #NCONSC!
Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible.
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Yet, finding the right experts is sometimes difficult.
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This form is simply to provide your contact (name, email, current affiliation) and areas of expertise if you would like to contribute to Neuroscience of Consciousness as a Reviewer.
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Contribute to #NCONSC, the journal of the @theassc.bsky.social, by becoming a reviewer!
Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible.
To make things simpler, fill in this quick form to register your interest in reviewing for #NCONSC!
Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible.
To make things simpler, fill in this quick form to register your interest in reviewing for #NCONSC!
Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...
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