It took a while, but my paper on the mechanisms that can build consciousness is now out in preprint. It got accepted at assc29. The paper is here philpapers.org/rec/WOLPIM-3
Amongst other things, it talks to the meta problem.
Amongst other things, it talks to the meta problem.
Martin Wolstencroft, Patterns In Mind (Preprint) - PhilPapers
The leading theories of consciousness offer productive models for understanding consciousness, but they tend to stop short of detailed operational definitions. Predictive processing stops short of exa...
philpapers.org
May 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
It took a while, but my paper on the mechanisms that can build consciousness is now out in preprint. It got accepted at assc29. The paper is here philpapers.org/rec/WOLPIM-3
Amongst other things, it talks to the meta problem.
Amongst other things, it talks to the meta problem.
Hola from #ASSC29 in Santiago, Chile!
We are presenting early work here called "Skin in the Game": What kind of mechanism is needed for feeling-like behavior to appear in machines?
🧵...
We are presenting early work here called "Skin in the Game": What kind of mechanism is needed for feeling-like behavior to appear in machines?
🧵...
July 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Hola from #ASSC29 in Santiago, Chile!
We are presenting early work here called "Skin in the Game": What kind of mechanism is needed for feeling-like behavior to appear in machines?
🧵...
We are presenting early work here called "Skin in the Game": What kind of mechanism is needed for feeling-like behavior to appear in machines?
🧵...
A few hours left to apply to Consciousness Commons - an @assc2026.bsky.social satellite event, taking place in Santiago July 4-5
Applications close at midnight PST tonight.
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #openscience @consci-feeds.bsky.social
Applications close at midnight PST tonight.
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #openscience @consci-feeds.bsky.social
April 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
A few hours left to apply to Consciousness Commons - an @assc2026.bsky.social satellite event, taking place in Santiago July 4-5
Applications close at midnight PST tonight.
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #openscience @consci-feeds.bsky.social
Applications close at midnight PST tonight.
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #openscience @consci-feeds.bsky.social
Today is the last day to apply to Consciousness Commons.
Applications close tonight at midnight PST.
Don't miss this opportunity!
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #OpenScience @assc2026.bsky.social
Applications close tonight at midnight PST.
Don't miss this opportunity!
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #OpenScience @assc2026.bsky.social
April 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Today is the last day to apply to Consciousness Commons.
Applications close tonight at midnight PST.
Don't miss this opportunity!
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #OpenScience @assc2026.bsky.social
Applications close tonight at midnight PST.
Don't miss this opportunity!
consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026
#ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #OpenScience @assc2026.bsky.social
Apply by April 13. consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026 #ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #OpenScience #consci
April 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Apply by April 13. consciousness-commons.github.io/cc-assc-2026 #ASSC29 #ConsciousnessScience #OpenScience #consci
Something is emerging in Santiago this July.
A new kind of scientific gathering. Open data. Interdisciplinary teams. A shared question that's been challenging researchers for decades.
Introducing Consciousness Commons: A satellite workshop for early-career researchers @assc2026.bsky.social #ASSC29
A new kind of scientific gathering. Open data. Interdisciplinary teams. A shared question that's been challenging researchers for decades.
Introducing Consciousness Commons: A satellite workshop for early-career researchers @assc2026.bsky.social #ASSC29
March 20, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Something is emerging in Santiago this July.
A new kind of scientific gathering. Open data. Interdisciplinary teams. A shared question that's been challenging researchers for decades.
Introducing Consciousness Commons: A satellite workshop for early-career researchers @assc2026.bsky.social #ASSC29
A new kind of scientific gathering. Open data. Interdisciplinary teams. A shared question that's been challenging researchers for decades.
Introducing Consciousness Commons: A satellite workshop for early-career researchers @assc2026.bsky.social #ASSC29
How are our experiential states structured, and how does that structure govern the flow of our experience?
Today, I’ll be giving a talk at #ASSC29 called “Modeling the Dynamics of Experience” in Salon Fresno during the Concurrent Session 25 starting at 5pm.
Hope you can stop by!
Today, I’ll be giving a talk at #ASSC29 called “Modeling the Dynamics of Experience” in Salon Fresno during the Concurrent Session 25 starting at 5pm.
Hope you can stop by!
July 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
How are our experiential states structured, and how does that structure govern the flow of our experience?
Today, I’ll be giving a talk at #ASSC29 called “Modeling the Dynamics of Experience” in Salon Fresno during the Concurrent Session 25 starting at 5pm.
Hope you can stop by!
Today, I’ll be giving a talk at #ASSC29 called “Modeling the Dynamics of Experience” in Salon Fresno during the Concurrent Session 25 starting at 5pm.
Hope you can stop by!
#ASSC29 kicking off by @jdsitt.bsky.social in Santiago, Chile!
June 30, 2026 at 7:24 PM
#ASSC29 kicking off by @jdsitt.bsky.social in Santiago, Chile!
DEADLINE REMINDER!
Abstract submissions for #ASSC29 in Santiago close on February 12, 2026 (11:59 PM PT).
Don’t miss it!
theassc.org/assc-29/subm...
@theassc.bsky.social
Abstract submissions for #ASSC29 in Santiago close on February 12, 2026 (11:59 PM PT).
Don’t miss it!
theassc.org/assc-29/subm...
@theassc.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 11:16 PM
DEADLINE REMINDER!
Abstract submissions for #ASSC29 in Santiago close on February 12, 2026 (11:59 PM PT).
Don’t miss it!
theassc.org/assc-29/subm...
@theassc.bsky.social
Abstract submissions for #ASSC29 in Santiago close on February 12, 2026 (11:59 PM PT).
Don’t miss it!
theassc.org/assc-29/subm...
@theassc.bsky.social
I just gave my very first conference talk ever and what a place to do it!
Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting at ASSC, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness conference, in beautiful Santiago de Chile. 🇨🇱
I’m so grateful to everyone I’ve met!
Thank you, ASSC! 🧠✨
Yesterday, I had the honor of presenting at ASSC, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness conference, in beautiful Santiago de Chile. 🇨🇱
I’m so grateful to everyone I’ve met!
Thank you, ASSC! 🧠✨
July 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
It was really great to present my work on aphantasia at the #ASSC29! Thank you again @jianghaoliu.bsky.social for organising the symposium 😊
July 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
It was really great to present my work on aphantasia at the #ASSC29! Thank you again @jianghaoliu.bsky.social for organising the symposium 😊
Had a great time at #ASSC29 and i'm grateful to have had the opportunity to present my work on rumination mediating psilocybin-induced changes in wellbeing on the big stage 💫
July 7, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Had a great time at #ASSC29 and i'm grateful to have had the opportunity to present my work on rumination mediating psilocybin-induced changes in wellbeing on the big stage 💫
I will be giving a short talk tomorrow (Sat) at the Varela conference in Santiago (a satellite of #ASSC29) on “AI Phenomenology: What Could Count as a 'First-Person' Perspective in a Machine Model of Consciousness?” Will try to convey ideas from my Simons’ talk:
simons.berkeley.edu/talks/lenore...
simons.berkeley.edu/talks/lenore...
World Models and the Emergence of a “First-Person” Perspective in an AI
What would it mean for an artificial system to possess a “first-person” perspective? Consider an embodied AI architecture that interacts with its environment through sensors and actuators, develops wo...
simons.berkeley.edu
July 3, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I will be giving a short talk tomorrow (Sat) at the Varela conference in Santiago (a satellite of #ASSC29) on “AI Phenomenology: What Could Count as a 'First-Person' Perspective in a Machine Model of Consciousness?” Will try to convey ideas from my Simons’ talk:
simons.berkeley.edu/talks/lenore...
simons.berkeley.edu/talks/lenore...
June 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Wow not one, but two instances of @liadmudrik.bsky.social in the scientific committee of #ASSC29 - we better be outstanding !
July 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Wow not one, but two instances of @liadmudrik.bsky.social in the scientific committee of #ASSC29 - we better be outstanding !
#PhD
Happiness, after a presentation which receives interest and success, is the best impulse to make next research.
@francisca-c-matias.bsky.social : "Unfortunately it’s over, but! It was a blast! 👏🏼✨
#ASSC29 #ASSC2026"
Happiness, after a presentation which receives interest and success, is the best impulse to make next research.
@francisca-c-matias.bsky.social : "Unfortunately it’s over, but! It was a blast! 👏🏼✨
#ASSC29 #ASSC2026"
July 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
#PhD
Happiness, after a presentation which receives interest and success, is the best impulse to make next research.
@francisca-c-matias.bsky.social : "Unfortunately it’s over, but! It was a blast! 👏🏼✨
#ASSC29 #ASSC2026"
Happiness, after a presentation which receives interest and success, is the best impulse to make next research.
@francisca-c-matias.bsky.social : "Unfortunately it’s over, but! It was a blast! 👏🏼✨
#ASSC29 #ASSC2026"
We are really happy to be able to share a lot of our team work in #ASSC29!
4 talks and 2 posters... details below!
1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure"
⬇️
4 talks and 2 posters... details below!
1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure"
⬇️
June 30, 2026 at 9:16 PM
We are really happy to be able to share a lot of our team work in #ASSC29!
4 talks and 2 posters... details below!
1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure"
⬇️
4 talks and 2 posters... details below!
1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure"
⬇️
#ASSC29
And present my own poster!
(It’s in July but it’s winter in Santiago de Chile!)
drive.google.com/file/d/151g4...
And present my own poster!
(It’s in July but it’s winter in Santiago de Chile!)
drive.google.com/file/d/151g4...
July 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
#ASSC29
And present my own poster!
(It’s in July but it’s winter in Santiago de Chile!)
drive.google.com/file/d/151g4...
And present my own poster!
(It’s in July but it’s winter in Santiago de Chile!)
drive.google.com/file/d/151g4...
I’m very proud that our symposium on #Aphantasia and Consciousness at #ASSC29 was a big success!
Aphantasia research has undergone a decade of scientific study. This symposium aimed to address a key question: what does aphantasia reveal about unique aspects of human consciousness?
Aphantasia research has undergone a decade of scientific study. This symposium aimed to address a key question: what does aphantasia reveal about unique aspects of human consciousness?
July 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I’m very proud that our symposium on #Aphantasia and Consciousness at #ASSC29 was a big success!
Aphantasia research has undergone a decade of scientific study. This symposium aimed to address a key question: what does aphantasia reveal about unique aspects of human consciousness?
Aphantasia research has undergone a decade of scientific study. This symposium aimed to address a key question: what does aphantasia reveal about unique aspects of human consciousness?