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Thomas Metzinger
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Brailovskaia, J., Buchmann, J., Hertwig, R., Metzinger, T., Montag, C., et a. (2025): Soziale Medien und die psychische Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Diskussion Nr. 40, Halle (Saale): Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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With J. Brailovskaia, J. Buchmann, R. Hertwig, C. Montag, A.-R. Sadeghi, S. Schneider, I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann, I. & A. Waldherr. Social Media and the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents. Discussion No 40, Halle (Saale): German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. doi.org/10.26164/leo....
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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What if there were a drug that allowed us to study consciousness in its most basic form?

Christopher Timmermann describes the potential of 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic that strips away everything but awareness.

Read the full article here: bigthink.com/neuropsych/5...
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Neuronal criticality as a framework for the computational phenomenology of advanced meditation
Here, we develop neuronal criticality as a framework for the computational neurophenomenology of advanced meditation. Epistemologically, neuronal criticality constrains the space of possible mapping f...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Whole-Brain Models of Minimal Phenomenal Experience: Approaching Criticality through Jhāna Meditation
Minimal phenomenal experiences (MPE) provide a distinctive entry point for investigating consciousness and understanding how certain meditative practices may represent and contribute to human flourish...
www.biorxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Christopher Timmermann
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wins the €20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution:
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November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize
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for 2025 with this contribution:
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November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize
mpe-project.info/wp-content/u...
for 2025 with this contribution:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century:

1. Dream engineering

"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."

www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine
We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need for rigorous methods to assess AI systems for cons...
www.cell.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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ewo.name
Here is the full report: www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Frontiers | Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?
Understanding the biophysical basis of consciousness remains a substantial challenge for 21st-century science. This endeavor is becoming even more pressing i...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘

Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.

I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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"... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis."
"... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. "
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Frontiers | Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?
Understanding the biophysical basis of consciousness remains a substantial challenge for 21st-century science. This endeavor is becoming even more pressing i...
www.frontiersin.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Internationaler Strafgerichtshof ersetzt Microsoft Office
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Frontiers | Applied ethics: synthetic phenomenology will not go away
Key points • The ethics of synthetic phenomenology is quickly gaining prominence, and the academic consciousness research community will increasingly will in...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis."
"... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. "
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Frontiers | Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?
Understanding the biophysical basis of consciousness remains a substantial challenge for 21st-century science. This endeavor is becoming even more pressing i...
www.frontiersin.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Meinung: Emissionshandel: Kippt die EU den Emissionshandel, gibt sie die Zukunft auf
In der EU wächst der Widerstand gegen die marktwirtschaftliche Bekämpfung der Klimakrise. Setzen sich die Fossil-Fans dabei durch, heißt das: Europa subventioniert die Katastrophe herbei.
www.spiegel.de
October 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Die Antwort auf die Kleine Anfrage zur #Patientenakte, die auch mich in den letzten Tagen schon ziemlich hat staunen lassen, ist jetzt öffentlich.

Sie ist nicht sicher und es ist auch nicht verhinderbar, dass die Gesundheitsdaten in den USA landen. Wow.
ennopark.de Enno Park @ennopark.de · Oct 21
„…kann die Bundesregierung die Sorgen nicht zerstreuen, dass die Dienstleister (IBM, RISE) hinter der elektronischen Patientenakte nach ausländischem Gesetz gezwungen sein könnten, Daten z.B. an die US-Regierung herauszugeben.“

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Ulrich Kelber (@[email protected])
In ihrer Antwort auf eine Anfrage der Fraktion „Die Linke“ kann die Bundesregierung die Sorgen nicht zerstreuen, dass die Dienstleister (IBM, RISE) hinter der elektronischen Patientenakte nach ausländ...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
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October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This is relevant for applied ethics:
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Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans
Hemispherotomy is a neurosurgical procedure for treating refractory epilepsy by disconnecting a significant portion of the cortex. This study shows that the isolated cortex exhibits EEG patterns resem...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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“Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth,” he told me. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth’: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
The long read: Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s p...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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mitpress.bsky.social
"An account as weird, wild, and nontraditional as its subject."

@publisherswkly.bsky.social reviews "Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna." On sale tomorrow:
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St John
This definitive biography from cultural historian St John (Weekend Societies) explores the life and ideas of psychedelic philoso...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM