Niccolo Negro
Philosophy of mind (especially consciousness) & philosophy of science. Azrieli Postdoc Fellow at Tel Aviv University; PhD from Monash University.
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro🚨 New article in #NCONSC Lifting the veil: probing altered visual perception in derealization academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @anikokusztor.bsky.social @qualiastructure.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroJakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThe next article in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism is out: “Linking the structure of neuronal mechanisms to the structure of qualia” by A. Maier and N. Tsuchiya. It surveys the key literature leading up to a structural approach to consciousness and rates the current state of the filed.
- 👇👇👇New preprint on intuitions about consciousness and moral status. It was real fun to work on this!
- New preprint! with @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ve6c5_v1 Consciousness seems central to moral status debates, from AI to animal welfare. But is consciousness necessary for moral status? Is it sufficient? We surveyed >1000 people to find out. 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroLatest papers: Leonard Dung & François Kammerer argue that illusionism has substantial and non-trivial implications for non-human consciousness research in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)! A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking. 👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroReally enjoyed speaking at BAMΞ's Paradigms in Consciousness Science Workshop! Thanks to the organizers Lara Bräuchle @johanneskleiner.bsky.social @cam-signorelli.bsky.social for putting together such a great event 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdX...
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro1/2 🎉🎉🎉 New paper alert!! Read this to see why we don’t think P and A are two *types* of C, but two conditions for C. And why we think this can truly advance the field and solve controversies. Open access until Feb 5th: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mHug4sIRv...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroOn a confusion about there being two types of consciousness: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThe prospect of artificial consciousness might be both over- and underrated 🤔
- 🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroTobias Schlicht sent me a video summarizing recent debates in consciousness science
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro🗣️ With the support of the @danafoundation.bsky.social, we are excited to announce our 2nd research opportunity: The Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration Program! 🧠 For more details & submission requirements, visit: philandneuro.com/itrc (This is 2/2 announcements we will make)
- www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/m... Interesting... #consci
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroLatest papers: Michael D. Kirchhoff argues mental representation in cognitive science is not a useful fiction because it fails to be genuinely explanatory in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #phipsy
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroAnd just like that, ISPSM 2025 is done! Thank you to all our wonderful speakers and participants for making it the event it was. We are touched to be a part of all of your philosophical journeys, and will continue to strive forward in our efforts to make it is truly global community ❤️
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro[Consciousness Radio] Qstr-IIT summer school interview: Matteo Grasso - 1 youtu.be/8s4fl5TidfE?... via @YouTube
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroWe’ve recently updated our collaborative open-access book, “Neural Networks in Cognitive Science”, adding a few new authors, chapters, and lots of content. downloads.jeffyoshimi.net/NeuralNetwor...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThis Thursday (for real this time)! youtube.com/live/W-K5dQ9...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroI'm presenting my work on affective valence, meditative experience and active inference this Sunday 9:30am GMT at the 3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... Come by!
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroIt is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short. bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
- Don't forget to register! A lot of great philosophy of mind here 👇
- 💫 Our conference #ISPSM25 is just around the corner (24-26 October). We hope to see you there! ✨ Visit our website for more information about the programme and to register: www.ispsmind.com/internationa...

- Reposted by Niccolo NegroVery excited to have the first paper of my PhD — What active inference still can’t do: The (frame) problem that just won’t go away — published in @phimisci.bsky.social ! philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... #PhilMind #PhilCognition #Philpsy #Philsky
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro📢 New preprint (with Christian de Weerd) on AI Consciousness: philarchive.org/rec/DEWCXE #PhilMind
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroConsciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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- Reposted by Niccolo NegroHow does one do nothing skilfully? Can one get something of this skill in a single 15 min session? Is this first session aversive and difficult, as people commonly find doing nothing, or is it calming and easy? Our new preprint on Do Nothing meditation answers these questions! 🧵 osf.io/8fp6e
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroIt was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!
- www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
- www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
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- ✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨ Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... #philmind #philsci #philsky
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroMy department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroWhen a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
- You can now register to this year's ISPSM *online* conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... Great line-up of keynote speakers and symposia, plus a fabulous and diverse program covering all phil of mind - don't miss it! #consci #philmind #philsci
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro✨🪩Our website just got a fresh update! 🪩✨ Click on the following link for access to all things ISPSM2025, including the registration form for this years conference: www.ispsmind.com/internationa... #philmind #philsci #philsky
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThe MIT Consciousness Club will have a Zoom option for those who would like to join online. First session Friday, Sept 19, 12pm-1:30pm. For more, see: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... You can register to the email list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....
- 👇Strongly recommended! (Both the program and the lab)
- Interested on working with me on consciousness?… this scholarship is an excellent opportunity to do so. Contact me and let’s think about exciting projects we can do together! Please share 🙏 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroA Kantian take on Integrated Information Theory - newly published in Philosophical Explorations by our very own @robertchisciure.bsky.social - and its #OpenAccess too 🎉👇https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13869795.2025.2550245
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroWhy does time feel the way it does? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Toward a principled account of temporal experience Author links open overlay panel Renzo Comolatti, Matteo Grasso , Giulio Tononi
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroNew #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n] www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroA weirdly underappreciated problem about Inference to the Best Explanation is how it can handle uncertain evidence. This new paper, now forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, proposes a strategy for doing that (and argues that Einstein may have used it). #philsky #philsci doi.org/10.1017/psa....
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroCome to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro@ronyhirsch.bsky.social beautifully presents her new results on tilt adaptation in the visual periphery AND outside focused attention at #iVSS (work with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) 👏👏👏
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroNew paper with @ManuKirberg 💭 Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThe first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroNew episode!! Dr. Anikó Kusztor joins us this week to discuss the results of dissociation, and how they vary from person to person. Link in 🧵
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroThanks for the great discussion on studies of consciousness during EPSA25 at @rug.nl! Had a blast in this gorgeous building and seeing all these diverse approaches to philosophy of science.
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroNew paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni
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- Mark your calendar! I'm organizing a symposium on laws of appearance with @neddo.bsky.social (Ned Block) and EJ Green. October 26 from 4:15 - 6:15 pm (CEST) @ispsm.bsky.social
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- I’m looking forward to our symposium at @ispsm.bsky.social on Sat at 5:30pm CEST. Zoom in to catch me, @kenaizawa.bsky.social, @gualtiero.bsky.social, and @francesegan.bsky.social talk about realism in Neuroscience! 🧠 🥳
- 👇 have a look at the program of this year's ISPSM conference, it's online and free. #philmind #philsci #consci
- We are very excited to share the conference schedule and book of abstracts for this year’s ISPSM! 💫 Link to schedule: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025sch... Link to book of abstracts: tiny.cc/ISPSM2025boo... #philmind #philsky
- Reposted by Niccolo Negro#PhiMiSci has recently launched a new special issue on "Structuralism and the Science of Consciousness". It opens with a new paper by David Rosenthal titled "Objective foundations for the study of mental qualities". Have a look!
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroOne of the biggest advances in #consciousness science is using brain scans to detect awareness in unresponsive people, researchers say. I wrote for @nature.com about these techniques and the growing efforts to test animals and AI for signs of an inner life.
- Reposted by Niccolo NegroGreat piece by @marilenharo.bsky.social on the quest to detect consciousness. Great to see this important topic getting the attention it deserves! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Niccolo NegroIf you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT
- Reposted by Niccolo Negrofinally recovered from all the thought provoking discussions I had at @assc28.bsky.social! presented a meta analysis of the current state of consciousness science and why we should leave theory convergence behind (based on work with @mnoichl.bsky.social & @niccolonegro.bsky.social)