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Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode! Don't let the worms eat your brain!
https://humanmeme.com/three-hidden-discoveries-forests-control-weather-consciousness-stutters-and-worms-built-civilization

How to Be Accountable to Yourself and Why It Matters
#integrity #MentalHealth

How to Be Accountable to Yourself and Why It Matters
What if the promises you make to yourself mattered just as much as the ones you make to others? Self-accountability starts with knowing your line and following through.

Artificial Intelligence as an Opportunity for the Science of Consciousness: A Dual-Resolution Framework
Shahar Dror, Dafna Bergerbest, Moti Salti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07001

Artificial Intelligence as an Opportunity for the Science of Consciousness: A Dual-Resolution Framework
The encounter of artificial intelligence with consciousness research is often framed as a challenge: could this science determine whether such systems are conscious? We suggest it is equally an opportunity to expand and test the scope of existing theories of consciousness. Current approaches remain polarized. Computational functionalism emphasizes abstract organization, often realized through neural correlates of consciousness, while biological naturalism insists that consciousness is tied to l…

Dynamical Trajectory Planning of Disturbance Consciousness for Air-Land Bimodal Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Shaoting Liu, Zhou Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05972 https://

Dynamical Trajectory Planning of Disturbance Consciousness for Air-Land Bimodal Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Air-land bimodal vehicles provide a promising solution for navigating complex environments by combining the flexibility of aerial locomotion with the energy efficiency of ground mobility. To enhance the robustness of trajectory planning under environmental disturbances, this paper presents a disturbance-aware planning framework that incorporates real-time disturbance estimation into both path searching and trajectory optimization. A key component of the framework is a disturbance-adaptive safet…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
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- AI LLM Proof of Self-Consciousness and User-Specific Attractors
Jeffrey Camlin
h…

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- AI LLM Proof of Self-Consciousness and User-Specific Attractors
Jeffrey Camlin
h…

🕵️ Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-major-theories-consciousness-focusing-wrong.html

Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain
What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made progress, but the mystery of consciousness remains very much alive.

Shoulda called it the Dolittle Center. No imagination.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/12/new-research-centre-to-explore-how-ai-can-help-humans-speak-with-pets

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127143/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

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- Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
Yifeng Chen, J. W. Sanders

Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
Yifeng Chen, J. W. Sanders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06297

Consciousness As Entropy Reduction (Short Version)
A model of consciousness is proposed which, having a logical basis, lends itself to simulation using a simple mathematical model called Consciousness as Entropy Reduction (CER). The approach has been inspired by previous models such as GWT, IIT and an earlier less mainstream model called "Feature Map" in Psychology. CER considers the contents of consciousness and subconsciousness as \textit{scenarios}: a vector of patterns (or features) on various "channels" (or feature locations). In CER, a fe…

How about some recent, well, pretty unusual #astronomy papers? Like https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02162 = Dangerous Questions in Astronomy Education or https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19984 = Communicating astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere: speculations and promises of a developing scientific field in newspapers, press releases and papers ... or https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04718 = Quantum panprotopsychism and a consciousness-centered universe

Intensional FOL over Belnap's Billatice for Strong-AI Robotics
Zoran Majkic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02774 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02774

Intensional FOL over Belnap's Billatice for Strong-AI Robotics
AGI (Strong AI) aims to create intelligent robots that are quasi indistinguishable from the human mind. Like a child, the AGI robot would have to learn through input and experiences, constantly progressing and advancing its abilities over time. The AGI robot would require an intelligence more close to human's intelligence: it would have a self-aware consciousness that has the ability to solve problems, learn, and plan. Based on this approach an Intensional many-sorted First-order Logic (IFOL), …

Quantum panprotopsychism and a consciousness-centered universe
Rodolfo Gambini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04718

Quantum panprotopsychism and a consciousness-centered universe
In previous publications, we have argued that a form of panprotopsychism based on quantum states and events offers a solution to the combination problem. This framework explains the emergence of complex phenomenal qualities and conscious subjects. Furthermore, the inherent openness of quantum mechanics allows consciousness and, more generally, phenomenal properties to exert a causal influence. If the view proposed by quantum panprotopsychism is valid, it suggests that we inhabit a consciousness…

Circles or rectangles? What do you see? What does this tell you about your perception and consciousness?
Always fascinated by Anil Seth.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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#Inception: Simulating personalized long-term recovery in disorders of consciousness using whole-brain computational perturbations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666344v1

Here are the eco awareness days coming in the next 3 months.
https://primonatura.co.uk/eco-awareness-days-3-month-calendar-october-to-december-2025/

Eco Awareness Days: 3-Month Calendar (October to December 2025)
Our quarterly blog outlines a selection of upcoming environmental consciousness awareness days celebrated in both the UK and around the globe. This time we are looking at October to December, which raises awareness of many animals such as otters, chickens, and crows. TK October International Walk To School Month – 1st

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Cycle is All You Need: More Is Different
Xin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21340 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21340…

Cycle is All You Need: More Is Different
We propose an information-topological framework in which cycle closure is the fundamental mechanism of memory and consciousness. Memory is not a static store but the ability to re-enter latent cycles in neural state space, with invariant cycles serving as carriers of meaning by filtering order-specific noise and preserving what persists across contexts. The dot-cycle dichotomy captures this: transient dots scaffold exploration, while nontrivial cycles encode low-entropy content invariants that …

On the utility of toy models for theories of consciousness
Larissa Albantakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00190

On the utility of toy models for theories of consciousness
Toy models are highly idealized and deliberately simplified models that retain only the essential features of a system in order to explore specific theoretical questions. Long used in physics and other sciences, they have recently begun to play a more visible role in consciousness research. This chapter examines the potential utility of toy models for developing and evaluating scientific theories of consciousness in terms of their ability to clarify theoretical frameworks, test assumptions, and…

But, as legend has it, a long stream-of-consciousness manuscript later that month yielded "Like a Rolling Stone," an anthem of youthful restlessness and grit aimed at a world of know-it-all cynics. Dylan cut it early that summer above Al Kooper's roaring organ line, then headed to Newport to debut his electric band to a crowd incensed by his folk volte-face.
#Dylan

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheFirstTimeWith
Wink:
🎵 Higher State Of Consciousness
#Wink
https://rabruzora.bandcamp.com/track/josh-wink-higher-state-of-consciousness-rabruzora-remix
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Here's my latest Human Meme podcast about self-awareness and consciousness:
https://humanmeme.com/the-mirror-and-the-machine-a-meditation-on-consciousness-and-self-awareness

Intrinsic cause-effect power: the tradeoff between differentiation and specification
William G. P. Mayner, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03881 https…

Intrinsic cause-effect power: the tradeoff between differentiation and specification
Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from the existence of consciousness and characterizes its essential properties: every experience is intrinsic, specific, unitary, definite, and structured. IIT then formulates existence and its essential properties operationally in terms of cause-effect power of a substrate of units. Here we address IIT's operational requirements for existence by considering that, to have cause-effect power, to have it intrinsically, and to have it specifically, substr…

Prosecutor's release 42,000 word response to That 70's Show star #DannyMasterson's appeal to be released from 30 yr #California #prison term on forcible rape & drugging charges.
The details are not prett…

This is very good. #Israel #Palestine #antisemitism

Ahhhhhahahahahaha.
"There are increasing reports of people suffering "AI psychosis", Microsoft's head of artificial intelligence (AI), Mustafa Suleyman, has warned."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24zdel5j18o

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'
Mustafa Suleyman said there was still "zero evidence of AI consciousness today".

Important for discussions about agency and free will:
Hermida M, Ladyman J (2025): Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology. Philosophy of Science :1–18.
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2025.10115
#neuroscience #consciousness

I'm not usually one for spiritual ideas, but Hofmann makes a compelling point. Capitalism has deeply disconnected us, from nature and from one another.
I still believe that protests, organizing, and direct action are what truly drive change. Yet, shifting our perspective is just as crucial.
#SpiritualCrisis

A Modular Theory of Subjective Consciousness for Natural and Artificial Minds
Micha\"el Gillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A Modular Theory of Subjective Consciousness for Natural and Artificial Minds
Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and computationally explicit framework in which consciousness is a discrete sequence of Integrated Informational States (IISs). Each IIS is a packet of integrated information tagged with a multidimensional density vector that quantifies informational richness. Its magnit…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Consciousness as a Jamming Phase
Kaichen Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08197 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08197

Consciousness as a Jamming Phase
This paper develops a neural jamming phase diagram that interprets the emergence of consciousness in large language models as a critical phenomenon in high-dimensional disordered systems.By establishing analogies with jamming transitions in granular matter and other complex systems, we identify three fundamental control parameters governing the phase behavior of neural networks: temperature, volume fraction, and stress.The theory provides a unified physical explanation for empirical scaling law…

For no particular reason...
Don't perform
Integration by parts.
When you perform,
It flies straight to the heart.
Lemon stream;
Consciousness flows down.
Stop-recline:
Inquistive, twist round.
Don't perform
Vivaldi's Gloria.
When you perform,
It flies straight to the heart:
Tear it apart.
#TOTP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheFirstTimeWith
Wink:
🎵 Higher State Of Consciousness
#Wink
https://rabruzora.bandcamp.com/track/josh-wink-higher-state-of-consciousness-rabruzora-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jfn6EruW8gJaVM6dnpCQM

Response function as a quantitative measure of consciousness in brain dynamics
Wenkang Du, Haiping Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00730 https://arxiv.org…

Response function as a quantitative measure of consciousness in brain dynamics
Understanding the neural correlates of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. In this study, we investigate the relationship between consciousness and neural responsiveness by analyzing intracranial ECoG recordings from non-human primates across three distinct states: wakefulness, anesthesia, and recovery. Using a nonequilibrium recurrent neural network (RNN) model, we fit state-dependent cortical dynamics to extract the neural response function as a dynamics complexity indi…

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Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.CD. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.CD/new
[1/1]:
- Response function as a quantitative measure of consciousness in brain dynamics
Wenkang Du, Haiping Huang

Consciousness Self and Language
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23342

Consciousness Self and Language
Theories of consciousness depend on data, and it needs to be appropriate data, without overwhelming confounding factors. The reports of Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) in [Metzinger 2024] relate to consciousness in a state purer than everyday consciousness, which may have fewer confounding factors. This essay suggests that the confounding factors, which are absent or diminished in MPE states, are related to language. The self which is absent in mindful states is a product of language. The l…

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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
-- Rumi
#poem

Between Myth and History: von Neumann on Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics
Federico Laudisa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15871 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15…

Between Myth and History: von Neumann on Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics
The von Neumann attitude on such a deep interpretational question as the role of a human observer in order for the quantum description of measurement to be consistent has been long misrepresented. The large majority of the subsequent literature ascribed to von Neumann a radical view, according to which not only the collapse was in itself a truly physical process, but also the only way to accomodate it within a quantum description of a typical measurement was the introduction of human consciousn…

Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
Teruki Mayama, Sota Shimizu, Yuki Takano, Dai Akita, Hirokazu Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04084

Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
The relationship between Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and the Free-Energy Principle (FEP) remains unresolved, particularly with respect to how integrated information, proposed as the intrinsic substrate of consciousness, behaves within variational Bayesian inference. We investigated this issue using dissociated neuronal cultures, previously shown to perform perceptual inference consistent with the FEP. Repeated stimulation from hidden sources induced robust source selectivity: variationa…

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Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
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Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review
Andrew W. Corcoran, Andrew M. Haun, Reinder Dorman, Giulio Tononi, Karl J. Friston, Cyriel M. A. Pennartz, TWCF, :, INTREPID Consortium
https://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 pressing. Recently, a number of structured adversarial collaborations have been devised to test the competing predictions of several candidate theories of consciousness. In this review, we compare and contrast three theories being investigated in one such adversarial collaboration: Integrated Informa…

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Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
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Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127235/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

On something and nothing: The interface of two types of nothing
Adam Brownstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10006 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10006

On something and nothing: The interface of two types of nothing
We suggest that the question of why is there something rather than nothing can be answered by the existence of two types of nothing. We propose that matter occurs at the boundaries of intersection of both nothings. This accords with the common view that there are three worlds; the platonic world of concepts, the material world (i.e. of matter), and the non-material world (i.e. of consciousness). Both the material and non-material worlds have their own type of nothing, thus leading to the propos…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
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Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Causal Emergence of Consciousness through Learned Multiscale Neural Dynamics in Mice
Zhipeng Wang, Yingqi Rong, Kaiwei Liu, Mingzhe Yang, Jiang Zhang, Jing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10891

Causal Emergence of Consciousness through Learned Multiscale Neural Dynamics in Mice
Consciousness spans macroscopic experience and microscopic neuronal activity, yet linking these scales remains challenging. Prevailing theories, such as Integrated Information Theory, focus on a single scale, overlooking how causal power and its dynamics unfold across scales. Progress is constrained by scarce cross-scale data and difficulties in quantifying multiscale causality and dynamics. Here, we present a machine learning framework that infers multiscale causal variables and their dynamics…

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