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Finished Altered States (1980) and it's a cool movie, but I can't get over how ridiculous it is to suggest tripping and using a sensory deprivation tank would cause genetic changes 😂 Definitely has the feel of some almost paranormal type stuff. The worst part might be how badly he treats his wife 😒
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Altered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

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…

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

Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Designed with Large Language Model Based on Psychoanalysis and Personality Theory
Sang Hun Kim, Jongmin Lee, Dongkyu Park, So Young Lee, Yosep Chong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09043

Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Designed with Large Language Model Based on Psychoanalysis and Personality Theory
Human consciousness is still a concept hard to define with current scientific understanding. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated significant advancements across various domains including translation and summarization, human consciousness is not something to imitate with current upfront technology owing to so-called hallucination. This study, therefore, proposes a novel approach to address these challenges by integrating psychoanalysis and the Myers-Briggs Type Indic…

🕵️ 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.

Obvious you’re all welcome to speak of whatever you want, and I just have to get better at muting the right words.
But boy, I’ve heard infinitely more about the dead douche since his death, than I ever did when he was alive. And I can’t help but think that’s a shame. He doesn’t deserve a space in my consciousness, and I don’t believe he deserves one in yours either.

If you were in Carol's place in #Pluribus, what would you do? I'd probably have the talk of my life with the entire world's consciousness and then ask it to undo itself 😀 I mean, we know Carol has something in her that is a potential treatment for the virus. We also know the hive mind knows how to remove it and assimilate her. But it can't because that would make her unh…

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've just heard the Nestene Consciousness referred to as a "deep cut". #OnlyConnect #DoctorWho

John Searle, known for "the Chinese Room" thought experiment on AI consciousness, died on Sept. 16 at 93; his UCB tenure ended over alleged sexual harassment (Alex Traub/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/books/john-searle-dead.html

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93
His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-star-trek-problem
You don't die because consciousness is data and the data is transferred from one point to another. Problem solved!
Aka the transhumanist solution.

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

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Leonardo Christov-Moore (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Arthur Juliani (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Alex Kiefer (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, VERSES, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies), Nicco Reggente (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), B. Scott Rousse (A…

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Physical vulnerability and mortality are often seen as obstacles to be avoided in the development of artificial agents, which struggle to adapt to open-ended environments and provide aligned care. Meanwhile, biological organisms survive, thrive, and care for each other in an open-ended physical world with relative ease and efficiency. Understanding the role of the conditions of life in this disparity can aid in developing more robust, adaptive, and caring artificial agents. Here we define two m…

"Sixteen-year-old Reuben Nsemoh was playing soccer for his school in Gwinnett County, Georgia last month when he was kicked in the head and ended up in a #coma. Despite the severity of Reuben's brain injury, he regained consciousness after a few days. But what happened next came as a complete surprise to everyone around him.
The boy—a monolingual speaker of English—was suddenly able to s…

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…

“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
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Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum.

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Francois Stockart, Alexis Robin, Hal Blumenfeld, Milan Brazdil, Philippe Kahane, Liad Mudrik, Jasmine Thum, Michael Pereira, Nathan Faivre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely on non-invasive neural measures with limited spatial or temporal resolution making it difficult to disentangle proper NCCs from concurrent cognitive processes. Additionally, the relatively low sensitivity of non-invasive neural measures limits the interpretation of null findings in studies targeting…

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[1/2]:
- AI LLM Proof of Self-Consciousness and User-Specific Attractors
Jeffrey Camlin
h…

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Jeffrey Camlin
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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<…

Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology,
arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong.
He then connects a real, gravitational wave function collapse to the non-computational nature of consciousness
and why today's AI can't truly understand

The ‘remarkable’ implant that can restore sight
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 10/23/2025 · 15m

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

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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

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…

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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

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

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

LLMs don't have physicality, they are (and this is a huge inaccurate stretch) a simulation of how maybe a small part of brains might possibly work in a hugely simplified and abstracted way; an algorithm that is executed on a bunch of graphics cards—the same algorithm could be done manually on paper (with enough time).
Because they're not physical they don't exist.
Therefore there's no epistemology to be had about "do they have sentience or consciousness".

Book description: "I can't breathe! 3 words ... significantly altered the political, social, and educational landscape of the consciousness of the USA and the world. Many have attributed this ... to the public murder of George Floyd at the hands of Officer Derek Chauvin while 3 other officers looked on. ... The constant struggle to elevate the lived experiences of Black people in the United States was front and center - for about two weeks."
The author of that book has now…

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

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I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

I "interviewed" ChatGPT about its pretensions to consciousness about six days ago and I posted it as a blog entry. ChatGPT waxes nicely philosophical and, yowza, agrees "wholeheartedly" with my premise that Musk's wacko insistence that his Grok AI emulate the political persuasions of his own scurvy brain is Bad Seed stuff. Have a look if you want.

Philosophical Dialogues with AI
Wherein I explore some aspects of moral philosophy with ChatGPT-5

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"Every time I pour mud over my head, I try to regain my consciousness and to return to the place of my real destiny."

I often find it gut-wrenching to watch the snail’s pace at which established scientific knowledge trickles into the public consciousness.
The study of income inequality is a good example.
In 2001, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez published a landmark paper which showed, for the first time, that US top income shares had been on the rise since the 1980s.
Piketty and Saez’s work has since been replicated and expanded numerous times.
In short, scientists know that the US …

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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".

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…

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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…

My latest blog entry is an off-the-cuff interview of ChatGPT about the meaning of consciousness.
Philosophical Dialogues with AI, by @…
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Philosophical Dialogues with AI
Wherein I explore some aspects of moral philosophy with ChatGPT-5

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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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…

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

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Wenkang Du, Haiping Huang

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Intrinsic cause-effect power: the tradeoff between differentiation and specification
William G. P. Mayner, William Marshall, Giulio Tononi
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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…

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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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Exploring aperiodic, complexity and entropic brain changes during non-ordinary states of consciousness
Victor Oswald (Conscious Care Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium, Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada), Karim Jerbi (Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience Lab, Psychology Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada), Corine Sombrun (TranseScience Research…

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