Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 12d

It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!

Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 12d

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social

Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction

www.cambridge.org

4 11

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Michelle Liu @michelleybliu.bsky.social · 15d

My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University

An international database of jobs for philosophers

philjobs.org

18 25

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 15d

New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in @pnas.org - led by @frosas.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/ @andrealuppi.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, me, & Dan Bor. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition

www.pnas.org

7 17

Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 27d

And continue on to the annual conference of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society, right next door.

1

Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 27d

Organised by the ASSP at Monash University, through @monash-m3cs.bsky.social

1 1

Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 27d

📢Keynote speakers📢: Claire O'Callaghan, Cammi Murrup-Stewart, James Kirby, Lu Teng, Peter Godfrey-Smith

@claireocallaghan.bsky.social @cmurrupstewart.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @petergs.bsky.social

1 1 3

Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 27d

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract

Come join this exciting community of researchers

Nov 24-25 - Register now!

#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky

sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

ASPP 2025 Melbourne

Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

sites.google.com

1 15 30

Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · Sep 5

#consci

Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

6

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

andymckilliam.bsky.social @andymckilliam.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis

Until recently, mental imagery has largely been regarded as an exclusively conscious phenomenon. However, recent empirical results suggest that mental…

www.sciencedirect.com

2 12 30

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Claire O'Callaghan @claireocallaghan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Free access link authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgsH4sIRv...
#neuroskyence

1 5

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social · Aug 27

A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews

Looking back on our life and work, we reflect on the changes in our thinking due to three scientific and technological revolutions. These are information processing, computers, and brain imaging, and ...

www.annualreviews.org

2 10 34

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

wanjawiese.bsky.social @wanjawiese.bsky.social · Aug 14

New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness

Building blocks for theories of consciousness

Consciousness science is brimming with theories attempting to explain what consciousness is and how it can be identified in natural and artificial sys…

www.sciencedirect.com

2 9 21

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Juan Diego Bogotá @jdbogotaj.bsky.social · Aug 8

I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 New article in #NCONSC!

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity

@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel

academic.oup.com

3 3 10

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Tim Bayne @timbayne.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...

Babies, bees, and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness

To truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems.

www.thetransmitter.org

1 11 22

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 New article in #NCONSC!

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity

@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience

Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel

academic.oup.com

1 12 21

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Aug 5

When you mind goes blank! 🧠🧪

Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science!
With the fantastic @ademertzi.bsky.social!

www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

Why does your mind goes 'blank'? New brain scans reveal the surprising answer

Neuroscientists think moments of "mind blanking" could be a way for the brain to protect itself.

www.livescience.com

1 4 13

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Vismay Agrawal @vismayagrawal.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

osf.io/preprints/ps...

2 7 13

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · Jul 25

My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On the Explanation of Intentionality

It is a widespread assumption in contemporary philosophy of mind that a naturalistic explanation of intentionality must answer to what I will call the ‘question of aboutness’: what makes it the cas...

www.tandfonline.com

4 19 70

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ever wonder why a ventriloquist's dummy seems to talk, or why a rubber hand can feel like your own? 🤔 Our brains perform an amazing trick, merging what we see, hear, and feel into a single reality. But this process isn't always stable.

A new theory on why. 🧵

1/7

2 6 30

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

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!
1/n

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

3 17 40

Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Looks very cool 👍😃

1

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Jul 6

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!

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · Jul 6

What is a journal without its Reviewers?

Yet, finding the right experts is sometimes difficult.

#NCONSC needs your expertise! The more diverse, the better!

If you are interested in reviewing for us, register here!
forms.gle/GYRJWc2ZWsD9...

Enjoy @assc28.bsky.social!

EOI - Reviewing for Neuroscience of Consciousness

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. Thomas Andrillon,...

forms.gle

1 6 12

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Jun 18

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain
Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

7 20

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Jun 10

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

www.jneurosci.org

25 81

Reposted by Jakob Hohwy

Christopher Whyte @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social · Jun 2

New preprint modelling suppression depth in binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression

with Hugh Wilson, @macshine.bsky.social,
& David Alais

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 1

A Minimal Physiological Model of Perceptual Suppression and Breakthrough in Visual Rivalry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656716v1

7 18