Really nice write-up of our recent aphantaisa paper dailyneuron.com/unconscious-...

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

www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...

Cool!

Yeah, cool! What I’m still not sure about is why AI would be globally confident. If they’re relying on unconscious imagery, why should the task seem easy?

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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.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool paper! Is there much other work—empirical, philosophical, or policy-oriented—on whether widespread use of LLMs as information-gathering tools might amplify the psychological mechanisms behind polarization?
arxiv.org/abs/2402.05880

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Looking forward to giving this a read!

Super interesting!

Awesome! Looking forward to reading about it!

Cool. But I share @annakeesey.bsky.social's worry. Folks don't trust the AI because it's AI. They trust it (in part) because it's not a judgmental jerk.
It would be interesting to manipulate the 'judginess' of the llm and see whether/how much that impacts the effect.

Looking forward to this one!

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Another new paper just dropped. Excited to see this one out!
journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

The first (the hard problem) is well-known. This paper draws more attention to the second. In consciousness science, the two main methods for progress—theory testing and epistemic iteration—face serious obstacles.

Read more here:
📖 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

These differences reveal two reasons why explaining consciousness may be 'hard'. First, a theory that enables prediction and control may not yield understanding—consciousness may still seem mysterious. Second, limited epistemic access may restrict our ability to predict and control consciousness.

Philosophers of mind and philosophers of science have quite different views on the relationship between explanation and understanding. While philosophers of mind prioritise logical entailment the sense of understanding, philosophers of science focus on prediction and control.

New paper out!

📖 "Explanation, understanding, and the methodological problem in consciousness science"
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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