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🕵️ 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.

The fact that so many on the Fediverse remain so uneducated isn’t surprising. It only reveals how deeply bourgeois ideology continues to shape public consciousness, molding perception to serve the interests of capital, especially US imperialism.
Just as it took decades for many to see the war on terror for what it truly was, and even longer to grasp Palestine’s struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism, the same pattern will repeat.
I wholeheartedly reject imperialis…

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…

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

CFP: Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127238/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

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…

⏰ Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
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Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic.

As we move into 2026, I want to be clear about where I stand. I support classic psychedelics like psilocybin, psilocin, Mescaline, LSD, and also cannabis, not because I think everyone should use them, but because I believe in the freedom of consciousness.
This isn’t a war on drugs; it’s a war on consciousness itself. The stigma surrounding psychedelics has been built and reinforced by decades of fear-based media and institutional control. Simply talking about these substances bout to s…

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
Eric Schwitzgebel, Jeremy Pober

According to federal and tribal data, about 5,700 Native American girls are reported missing every year.
The disappearances of Native American women — many of whom are presumed murdered, raped or trafficked — receive only a modicum of media attention,
barely registering in public consciousness.
Yet the crisis is so widespread that it has its own acronym — MMIP, “Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons.”

The Survivors We Still Refuse to See
Epstein victims deserve spotlight. So do 5,700 Native women and girls reported missing each year