Our paper on the ethical complexities of suggesting that informed consent should be applied to mindfuless is out now. We think its overblown to require formal consent mist of the time, but instead we think a dose sensitive approach is more sensible rdcu.be/fxmYF
Mindfulness and Informed Consent: Navigating Ethical Complexity Across Contexts
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Great to work with @franciscorr25.bsky.social and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...
Babies, bees, and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness
To truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems.
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Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself? We address this in our new preprint! @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
My paper on latent profile analysis of personality and mindfulness traits has been accepted by the @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Personality and Individual Differences journal! #watchthisspace #personality #mindfulness #meditation #research #psychology #latentprofiles
New episode! In this episode we are joined by Dr. Saurabh Sonkusare to learn about Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) 🧠 We hear about how DBS works and its uses in psychiatry and research 🔬 links in 🧵 @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
Olaf Blanke and I are pleased to announce the opening of a funded PhD position in cognitive and contemplative neuroscience at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center entitled "Neurophenomenological Study of Non-Dual Mindfulness Meditation and Its Impact on Self and Agency" Thanks for sharing this ad!
What does it mean to treat someone with dignity, as opposed to, say, treating them with respect? This experiment successfully tests the philosophical theory that ties dignity specifically to humiliation. With @andrejevic.bsky.social and Linda Barclay #philosophy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Dignity Is Distinct From Respect: How Treating Others With Dignity Entails Accounting for Their Self-Conscious Emotions - Milan Andrejević, Jakob Hohwy, Linda Barclay, 2025
Dignity is prominently endorsed in health care, organizations, and law. However, humanities research casts doubt over the utility of this concept, disputing tha...
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FYI: our review on neurophenomenological approaches to meditation practices and their potential clinical applications, in collaboration with Oussama Abdoun, Yair Dor-Ziderman, @mathistrautwein.bsky.social, and Aviva Berkovich-Ohana! Below is the organizational framework. doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...
Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias! @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
Beth Fisher@bethfisher.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias | Computational Psychiatry
Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...
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Why do we dream? 🤔Are they just random neural firings, or do they serve a deeper function? M3CS researcher & lecturer, Dr Manuela Kirberg, joins 'The Briefing' to unpack the science & philosophy of dreaming. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jo3...
'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development
The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …
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While that work focused on the potential impact of visceral signals on neural development & perceptual learning, our new paper considers how the top-down regulation of such signals across multiple scales may engender agentic control, selfhood, & neurobehavioural diversity
My paper with Tim Bayne "Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion" is now up at Inquiry. Our question: can large language model powered chatbots make assertions (can they state, claim or affirm things)? [1/5] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chatting with bots: AI, speech acts, and the edge of assertion
This paper addresses the question of whether large language model-powered chatbots are capable of assertion. According to what we call the Thesis of Chatbot Assertion (TCA), chatbots are the kinds ...
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Can we explain deep meditative deconstruction via Buddhist defabrication, its phenomenology and the active inference framework? New preprint of my work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, 'Towards an Active Inference Account of Deep Meditative Deconstruction'. osf.io/preprints/ps...
I spoke to Jack Roycroft-Sherry about my research on contentless experience in meditation and other topics for his podcast: youtu.be/kpxvo3VnaGE
New Minds Matter episode! This week we speak to Dr. Aya Osman who researches how the gut microbiome influences our brain and behaviour. Dr Osman explains the role of the gut microbiome in addiction and autism and how we can study these connections. www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s3-ep-8-your...
S3 Ep 8: Your Mind on the Gut Microbiome
Are we really what we eat? Research on the gut microbiome suggests we really are! This week we speak to Dr. Aya Osman who researches how the gut microbiome influences our brain and behaviour. Dr Osman...
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FYI: we have just reported in a randomised controlled trial that our 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults. Congratulation to Marco Schlosser and the Meditageing team, @SilverSanteEU, @MarchantLabUCL, x.com/uclnews/stat...
