Physicist and mathematician working on consciousness.
@LMU
: Sys. Neuroscience +
@LMU_MCMP
.
@U_of_Bamberg
: Institute for Psychology. Co-founder of
#AMCS
.
I am a mathematician and physicist. I've been working on consciousness for ≈7 years. I think that the problem of consciousness is much harder to understand than general relativity and and quantum field theory, combined. Please learn
#ConSci
before solving AI consciousness.
I'd like to thank you all for the large interest and excellent comments to this Tweet!
For those wondering why mathematics and consciousness are related at all, I have just finished this preprint: 👉
I am a mathematician and physicist. I've been working on consciousness for ≈7 years. I think that the problem of consciousness is much harder to understand than general relativity and and quantum field theory, combined. Please learn
#ConSci
before solving AI consciousness.
In this video I explain what I think are the minimal necessary ingredients for consciousness and have a look at whether ChatGPT, or any other large language models are conscious already.
Consciousness science is so exciting. Here you are wrapping up a nice day, and suddenly a bombshell drops with 124 people claiming a major theory is just BS. Heart racing, adrenaline. Was it like this in the early quantum days? Love it!😎
A wonderful talk and discussion by
@ThomasMetzinger
!
** Minimal Phenomenal Experience: Towards a minimal-model explanation for consciousness “as such” **
I'm very happy to announce our next 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 on 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀!
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟱
Dorfgastein, Austria
We have 17 places and would be honored to receive your application!
Located here 👇😊
It is likely that consciousness science is going to be THE science of the 21st century, much like physics was THE science of the 20th century. THE science of fundamentally new discoveries and societal impact.
One day later I'm still in shock that 124 people signed this headline. I'm in no camp. I agree w/ lots of the criticism of IIT. But invalidating the work of so many in this way feels like a betrayal of the values I thought we all share. 10 steps backwards. Huge damage done.
in light of the spread of some misinformation on public media (including news articles in Nature & Science), a group of 124 researchers weigh in & consider it necessary to label the integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness as pseudoscience
Such a great pleasure to finally share what was likely the second-to-most difficult paper I have ever worked on. Yet (or hence?) a short and easy read! Apologies for highlighting this:😉
📢Short and easy to read! 📢
Many thanks to
@StephanHartma14
!
Personal news 😊 Some of you know that I've been putting a huge effort into teaching. Just got the news that I've been nominated for our department's prize for excellence in teaching. 😊 Means a lot to me! 🥳 🤗
Very happy to announce the recent founding of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS). In case you're working on mathematical topics related to consciousness, be invited to have a look:
More confirmed speakers!🙂
We're very much looking forward to the talks!
@Liad_Mudrik
Selen Atasoy
Jennifer Windt
Catherine Tallon-Baudry
Chen Song
Jenann Ismael
@erikphoel
Mike Johnson
@krysdolega
Many thanks to
@JoannaSzczotka
and all our co-orgs.
Join us on Monday Jan 17, 7pm CET!
Stephen Wolfram
@stephen_wolfram
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀
Many thanks to
@BlumLenore
for organizing this! 🙂
Interested in 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
and 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?
Come join our 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜
morning in
@Stanford
next week!
Thursday, September 8, 9-12am
It's free for all to join!
#MoC3
Interesting new Nature feature that discusses the aftermath of the letter, adversarial colabs and what this might mean for the future of the field. Featuring
@RonyHirsch
,
@Liad_Mudrik
, Lucia Melloni,
@BlumLenore
and Jonathan Mason!
Hi everyone! Turns out IIT 3.0 can be defined in a beautiful and concise way using somewhat more abstract math!
Thanks
@Sean_E_Tull
for this long an wonderful project!
Looking forward to feedback from the IIT community!
I'm so glad we have people like
@anilkseth
working tirelessly for the benefit of the field, caring for its well-being inside and out. Consciousness science has a bright and important future, and it does so because of people like Anil. Thank you! 🙏
@Nature
piece on the IIT letter furore. I think the reporter,
@marilenharo
, does a good job - & she covered the
@arcCogitate
results too, also for Nature.
Very much looking forward to the next talk in the MCS seminar series:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?
by
@RomainBrette
Wednesday, June 9, 4pm Paris time
I'm making a 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱 on 🟦 to help us move over.
👉 Ping me or answer here if you want on! Everyone from ASSC, AMCS, MESEC, etc. is cordially invited.
Initial list of profiles it follows😍⬇️ Please help extend!
Happy to announce that our next speaker is
@carlorovelli
on "Understanding consciousness within the known laws of physics: three small contributions".
November 9, 15:00 CET
On days like these I am so super proud to be working in consciousness science. The dedication to truth and evidence, while paying full respect to researchers that hold opposing opinions, is absolutely amazing. Some of the best researchers of our day and age work here.
#consci
The recording is out! 🎉 A big thank you to Steve from
@filmshed
for the wonderful work in processing this video. Highly recommended! Many thanks also to all panelists and the other 175😯participants. A very nice session!
Happy to announce that our next speaker is
@carlorovelli
on "Understanding consciousness within the known laws of physics: three small contributions".
November 9, 15:00 CET
For those who have been enjoying our online seminar series in the past year: to be continued!
For now, you're cordially invited to join the second installment of our
#MOC2
conference that will take place in three weeks time. Registration is still open.
The intuition behind our result is extremely simple:
If the laws of physics fully determine the evolution of our universe, aka all physical events that occur in the actual world, as cosmology and most fundamental physicists would have it, then... 1/n
Such a great pleasure to finally share what was likely the second-to-most difficult paper I have ever worked on. Yet (or hence?) a short and easy read! Apologies for highlighting this:😉
📢Short and easy to read! 📢
Many thanks to
@StephanHartma14
!
If you're interested in **Mathematical Consciousness Science**, are from any of the following countries, and would like to come to Germany for a research visit, we have wonderful dedicated programs to support binational research visits!
#consci
👉 Shoot me an email or PM!
It is a great pleasure to host
@TobiasSchlicht4
as speaker in the Progress and Visions in Consciousness Science Series!
You're cordially invited to join the talk! Abstract below 👇
Yesterday a letter from 100 scientists declared the popular theory of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory - is "pseudoscience."
And that media about it is "scientific misinformation."
The letter is bad. Here's my reply why:
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"An important aspect of consciousness is also self-awareness and our self-preservation instinct: putting that into machines could be very dangerous".
Yoshua Bengio on why understanding
#Consciousness
matters for
#AI
@ASSC26nyc
I think this ⬇️ is a very bad idea.
First, IIT clearly isn't pseudoscience. Anyone who thinks this has probably not engaged thoroughly with IIT's mathematics. There are lots of problems, but also lots of very important ideas. IIT isn't just metaphysics.
Very excited to have
@Liad_Mudrik
speaking next week!
"The empirical quest to understand consciousness and its functions: what are we really studying?"
Thanks very much for joining the seminar, Liad!
Hi everyone! Here,
@erikphoel
and I show that the usual use of falsification in consciousness science is deeply problematic.
Would be curious to hear what experimenters say in response! Philosophers should find Section 4.1.1 interesting 😉 Stay healthy!
Finally finished! 😊 Super huge thank you to
@Sean_E_Tull
and
@tobysmithe
!
We hope this can be the basis of formalizing some of the PP-based theories of conscioussness.
I'm on vacation right now and will make a proper Tweet in a little while. 👋🏞️
There is a sizeable prize to incentivize research on computational phenomenology of pure awareness! 👇
If you're wondering what computational phenomenology is, I recently made this clumsy attempt to explain it 😉😅
Greetings from the Models of Consciousness organising committee! 👋
We'd like to cordially invite you
@all
to join us for *Models of Consciousness 4* (
#MoC4
) at
@UniofOxford
's Mathematical Institute!
4-8 September 2023
The best introduction to causal inference and causal reasoning for anyone with a formal background is , imho.
@coecke
calls it "the bible". Superb work.
I would like to supplement
@kareem_carr
introduction with a note on the analogy between Causal Inference (CI) and algebra.
1. CI is a mathematical method that takes us from what we know (assumptions) to what we wish to know (conclusions, or an answer to a query). It resembles
Very happy to announce the next cabin workshop on formal topics in the scientific study of consciousness: Would be wonderful to see some of you there! (The deadline for applications is Jan 31.)
Thanks to an amazing team, we've put together an awesome 𝗠𝗢𝗖𝟯 conference! Virtual boot camp, fantastic social program...
You're cordially invited! 😎
𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝟯
Stanford University
September 5-9
#moc3amcs
➡️
Finally finished this 😊 Quite the ride though, it's the third version after some extremely valuable feedback from
@wawiese
and others regarding the first two versions.
I'm very happy to announce our next 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 on 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀!
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟱
Dorfgastein, Austria
We have 17 places and would be honored to receive your application!
Located here 👇😊