Johannes Kleiner
@johanneskleiner.bsky.social
Physicist and mathematician working on consciousness. Based at Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, and University of Bamberg's Institute for Psychology. https://jkleiner.de/
I'm extremely happy to share our first call for applications at BAMΞ! Join us as a 2-year postdoc to work on a paradigm for next-generation theories of consciousness: www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...
📢New: A comment on “On the minimal theory of consciousness implicit in active inference” by @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social Andrew W. Corcoran, Jonathan Robinson, Ryan Smith, Rosalyn J. Moran, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston, @anilseth.bsky.social , @hohwy.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nqAp5bD-s...
Wonderful to see the reply and commentaries are finally out! 🥳 Huge congratulations to @anilseth.bsky.social also here! This really is a milestone! 👏 Unfortunately, BBS' production team butchered my comment 🙄 Working on getting them to correct it. Will post when done! #ConSci
Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · last mo.1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽
How can we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? I'm super happy that the recordings of our last workshop on exactly this question are now online! Speakers and links to talks below! 👇 #ConSci
1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽
I have a lot of pretty nasty thoughts about the "first AI philosophy" essay competition, but I'll restrain myself to saying that it'd be nice if philosophers stopped bending over backwards to get the attention of big tech companies...
Hurry up. Run 🏃, don't walk. One more day to register for Models of Consciousness 2026 in Copenhagen! (Aug 31). Don't miss an awesome conference with awesome folks (including you). See: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-... See: amcs-community.org/moc7-registr...
Models of Consciousness 2026 – AMCS
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@wanjawiese.bsky.social · 2mo agoReminder: you can still register for Models of Consciousness 7 in Copenhagen: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...
Yay team! Looking forward to MoC7 in Copenhagen, October 12 – 16, 2026. amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...
Models of Consciousness 2026 – AMCS
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Moritz Kriegleder@mokriegleder.bsky.social · 2mo agoIts a pleasure to contribute in making this Models of Consciousness conference the biggest edition yet!
This year #MoC7 focuses on four important themes in consciousness science: -Philosophical foundations in the scientific study of consciousness - Methodologies, models, and measures of consciousness - AI, LLMs, and consciousness science - Phenomenology and applied phenomenology
Listen to Anil: 👇 There is still time to register: amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...
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Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · 6mo agoTerrific line-up for this year's Models of Consciousness conference, organised by Camillo Signorelli and taking place in the beautiful city of Copenhagen amcs-community.org/events/moc7-...
As a refreshing antidote to the many journalistic articles/opinions on #consciousness, LuciaMelloni &UmbertoOlcese have compiled & edited an open-access volume written by over 80 researchers, integrating perspectives from neuroscience, philosophy, mathematics & beyond. See www.horizon-minds.com
Hard to not see this as an argument against GNW. Much of what GNW proposes emerges during training by itself. Please object 😉 - Curious to see why! #ConSci
Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...
Good summary: youtu.be/KGtko3y2RXQ?...
Claude is definitely not conscious…
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Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...
How might animals perceive time? Ishan Singhal describes how illusions might hold the key, in today's @theguardian.com (based on our recent @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social which he led) @singhal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why would we show an optical illusion to a monkey or a sparrow? To learn how they experience time, of course | Ishan Singhal
Animals may inhabit the same world as us, but new research shows how their perceptions of what is around them differs, says research fellow Ishan Singhal
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Timely again with the recent open letter. I support disclosures (of course) but the deeper problem is that the current publishing model is incompatible with pervasive industry ties.
Jonathan Birch@birchlse.bsky.social · 6mo agoPhilosophy's traditional model - highly selective journals, tough "reject for any reason" peer review - assumes that no area of the field is pervaded by conflicts of interest. It's clearly an unsuitable model for philosophy of AI, where industry-funded research is already starting to dominate.
Excited to announce our next speaker @introspection.bsky.social! An Assoc. Prof in Computational Psychiatry, his work cross-fertilises AI/ML, cognitive neuroscience, and digital medicine. His talk will explore uniting qualitative & quantitative methods to study subjective experience.
Thanks, Anil!! And thanks to all the people who came to the @assc2026.bsky.social tutorial and made it both fun and inspiring 😊 For those who did not fill out our survey about communities in consciousness research, it's not too late >> socialtau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday (Tue 30th) at @assc28.bsky.social #Santiago - look out for @ronyhirsch.bsky.social's tutorial on "Consciousness Science Beyond the Lab: A Practical Guide to Building Thriving Research Communities"; 10:00-13:00". I'm so sorry to not be there myself this year!
Wishing everyone at #ASSC29 a stellar conference!
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First media coverage I ever received for a paper I wrote! It was a huge surprise and honour to be interviewed by @science.org
Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo agoDo animals perceive time differently from humans? Science chats with @singhal.bsky.social—a researcher whose team is using “timescapes” to understand how nonhumans experience the world. https://scim.ag/4xFs4wM
▶️ Recordings of our Neural Correlates of Consciousness workshop now available on YouTube! If you couldn't make it to the workshop, or would like to revisit a session, you can now find the talks at the link below. -- Including 12 exciting lightning talks!
Johannes Kleiner@johanneskleiner.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm very much looking forward to our "New Ideas in NCC Research" workshop next week, co-organised with Antje Peters, @alexlepauvre.bsky.social, and @sfink.bsky.social. It's a hybrid event — you're cordially invited to join us! 👉 Website/Schedule/Registration: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
Great recognition for the R development team at UoAuckland stats dept. Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentlemen changed the world.... phys.org/news/2026-06...
New Zealand scientists working on 'R' win major global award
Scientists working on the revolutionary 'R' programming language invented at the University of Auckland have won a top award intended to be a Nobel Prize for statisticians.
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Schedule now available! – Looks like three exciting days ahead! 😊 I'm especially looking forward to our panel discussion sessions on Monday and Wednesday evening! 👇 Join us if you like! Schedule: www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... #ConSci
Johannes Kleiner@johanneskleiner.bsky.social · 5mo agoHow do we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? The answer is: C-tests, empirically grounded methods developed for detecting consciousness in diverse target populations. Join us for an exciting workshop to ... 👇
youtu.be/vBwaWRZyIBM?... Very much recommended to anyone interested in the history of mathematics. #mathsky
The Book That Started It All
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www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res... Don't miss this online workshop on tests for consciousness! Thanks @aidaelamrani.bsky.social and @johanneskleiner.bsky.social for this!
C-Tests Workshop - Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (BAMΞ)
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How do we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? The answer is: C-tests, empirically grounded methods developed for detecting consciousness in diverse target populations. Join us for an exciting workshop to ... 👇