Etienne JACQUES
@positivearrow.bsky.social
Researcher at the frontier of Math, Physics, Biology, Metaphysics, Consciousness. With applications to Artificial Consciousness and Artificial Reality.
https://sites.google.com/view/etiennejacques
https://sites.google.com/view/etiennejacques
The cool things you can do with ChatGPT nowadays:
"Plot formula 32 in this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.109...
"Plot formula 32 in this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.109...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The cool things you can do with ChatGPT nowadays:
"Plot formula 32 in this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.109...
"Plot formula 32 in this paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.109...
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"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic - Nature Neuroscience
Li et al. propose a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep based on electroencephalogram data. They show that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transiti...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short.
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
October 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short.
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
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Idle speculation: if our universe had a larger number of spacetime points - a larger cardinality, a higher infinity - maybe we could do math with infinitely long statements. This would be vastly more powerful than the math we have now.
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
John Carlos Baez (@[email protected])
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It's Sunday, time for idle speculations:
If spacetime had far more points than it does in our universe, then the way we do logic and math might be very different.
In our univer...
mathstodon.xyz
September 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Idle speculation: if our universe had a larger number of spacetime points - a larger cardinality, a higher infinity - maybe we could do math with infinitely long statements. This would be vastly more powerful than the math we have now.
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
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Newly published: "The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant", by Levin Hornischer and Francesco Berto, Mind, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/mind...
The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant
Abstract. Lots of things are usefully modelled in science as dynamical systems: growing populations, flocking birds, engineering apparatus, cognitive agent
doi.org
May 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Newly published: "The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant", by Levin Hornischer and Francesco Berto, Mind, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/mind...
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Preprint time:
“A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems”
arxiv.org/abs/2506.18498
A principled and scalable approach to measure high-order effects in time series data, generalising BROJA for multiple-input multiple-output settings!
“A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems”
arxiv.org/abs/2506.18498
A principled and scalable approach to measure high-order effects in time series data, generalising BROJA for multiple-input multiple-output settings!
A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems
Our understanding of neural systems rests on our ability to characterise how they perform distributed computation and integrate information. Advances in information theory have introduced several quan...
arxiv.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Preprint time:
“A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems”
arxiv.org/abs/2506.18498
A principled and scalable approach to measure high-order effects in time series data, generalising BROJA for multiple-input multiple-output settings!
“A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems”
arxiv.org/abs/2506.18498
A principled and scalable approach to measure high-order effects in time series data, generalising BROJA for multiple-input multiple-output settings!
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Superpsychism!
philpapers.org/rec/SCHSEC-7...
philpapers.org/rec/SCHSEC-7...
Susan Schneider & Mark Bailey, Superpsychism - PhilPapers
Two of life’s greatest mysteries are the phenomena of consciousness and the nature of spacetime. Herein, we use quantum entanglement as an inroad to both, developing a new “superpsychist” panpsychist ...
philpapers.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Superpsychism!
philpapers.org/rec/SCHSEC-7...
philpapers.org/rec/SCHSEC-7...
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Fantastic work scaling up neural network VMC methods like FermiNet and Psiformer to previously impossible systems - you can start to tackle real challenging chemistry at this scale!
I am truly excited to share our latest work with @mscherbela.bsky.social, Philipp Grohs, and @guennemann on "Accurate Ab-initio Neural-network Solutions to Large-Scale Electronic Structure Problems"!
arxiv.org/abs/2504.06087
arxiv.org/abs/2504.06087
Accurate Ab-initio Neural-network Solutions to Large-Scale Electronic Structure Problems
We present finite-range embeddings (FiRE), a novel wave function ansatz for accurate large-scale ab-initio electronic structure calculations. Compared to contemporary neural-network wave functions, Fi...
arxiv.org
April 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Fantastic work scaling up neural network VMC methods like FermiNet and Psiformer to previously impossible systems - you can start to tackle real challenging chemistry at this scale!
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New record for density of sphere packings in ℝ^n. Pretty big breakthrough!
arxiv.org/abs/2504.05042
arxiv.org/abs/2504.05042
Lattice packing of spheres in high dimensions using a stochastically evolving ellipsoid
We prove that in any dimension $n$ there exists an origin-symmetric ellipsoid ${\mathcal{E}} \subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$ of volume $ c n^2 $ that contains no points of ${\mathbb{Z}}^n$ other than the orig...
arxiv.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New record for density of sphere packings in ℝ^n. Pretty big breakthrough!
arxiv.org/abs/2504.05042
arxiv.org/abs/2504.05042
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
March 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
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Models of Consciousness 6
Hokkaido University (Japan)
September 30 – October 4, 2025
Registration is now open:
amcs-community.org/events/moc6-...
Hokkaido University (Japan)
September 30 – October 4, 2025
Registration is now open:
amcs-community.org/events/moc6-...
Models of Consciousness 2025 – AMCS
amcs-community.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Models of Consciousness 6
Hokkaido University (Japan)
September 30 – October 4, 2025
Registration is now open:
amcs-community.org/events/moc6-...
Hokkaido University (Japan)
September 30 – October 4, 2025
Registration is now open:
amcs-community.org/events/moc6-...
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In 1610 (some sources mention the 12th March, others the 13th) Galileo Galilei published the 'Sidereus Nuncius' (Sidereal Messenger or Starry Messenger) in Venice at the printer Tommaso Baglioni.
Image source and more➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereu...
🔭 🧪 #astrohistory #histsci 🧵
Image source and more➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereu...
🔭 🧪 #astrohistory #histsci 🧵
March 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In 1610 (some sources mention the 12th March, others the 13th) Galileo Galilei published the 'Sidereus Nuncius' (Sidereal Messenger or Starry Messenger) in Venice at the printer Tommaso Baglioni.
Image source and more➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereu...
🔭 🧪 #astrohistory #histsci 🧵
Image source and more➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereu...
🔭 🧪 #astrohistory #histsci 🧵
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Samples from asteroid Bennu contain A, G, C, T & U nucleotide bases, and 14 of 20 amino acids used by life—but while we use only left-handed versions of these molecules, Bennu has equal L/R, puncturing theories that the Earthly bias was due to initial cosmic seeding.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.
www.nature.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Samples from asteroid Bennu contain A, G, C, T & U nucleotide bases, and 14 of 20 amino acids used by life—but while we use only left-handed versions of these molecules, Bennu has equal L/R, puncturing theories that the Earthly bias was due to initial cosmic seeding.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here is a quick report generated by ChatGPT on Discrete Quantum Amplitudes : sites.google.com/view/etienne...
Etienne Jacques - Discrete Quantum Amplitudes (by ChatGPT)
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This page is the output of ChatGPT o1-pro with Deep Research option (on 03/11/25), on the topic of discrete quantum amplitudes.
I wanted to get a quick overview of what has been done on this ques...
sites.google.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Here is a quick report generated by ChatGPT on Discrete Quantum Amplitudes : sites.google.com/view/etienne...
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While "quantum gravity" is a mystery, we know that gravity affects quantum particles. Neutrons fall under gravity, but the height above the surface is quantized into steps. #Science #Physics #Quantum #Gravity 🧪⚛️
Cite: Nesvizhevsky, V. et al. Nature 415, 297–299 (2002). doi.org/10.1038/4152...
Cite: Nesvizhevsky, V. et al. Nature 415, 297–299 (2002). doi.org/10.1038/4152...
March 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
While "quantum gravity" is a mystery, we know that gravity affects quantum particles. Neutrons fall under gravity, but the height above the surface is quantized into steps. #Science #Physics #Quantum #Gravity 🧪⚛️
Cite: Nesvizhevsky, V. et al. Nature 415, 297–299 (2002). doi.org/10.1038/4152...
Cite: Nesvizhevsky, V. et al. Nature 415, 297–299 (2002). doi.org/10.1038/4152...