Thomas Metzinger
- Yay, finally!
- Jakob @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 Thomas MetzingerUh oh .... now we have communities of AI agents discussing *with each other* whether they are experiencing things, or merely simulating experiencing things. Humans can only observe, not interact www.moltbook.com/post/6fe6491...
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- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerWanna know how to infer the presence or absence of consciousness in artificial systems? Check out my new preprint: philarchive.org/rec/WIEITP #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness
- AI Will Change Us open.substack.com/pub/daveshap...
- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerWas genau ist jetzt der europäische Plan für Grönland?
- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerLast night I dreamt I gave a very detailed and precise lecture about lucid dreaming. The dream was not lucid.
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- Reposted by Thomas Metzinger14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
- Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerHey all, Thomas Metzinger has a new book out, have a look: www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0FZ... @metzinger.bsky.social
- Frei verfügbar: Brailovskaia, J., Buchmann, J., Hertwig, R., Metzinger, T., Montag, C., et a. (2025): Soziale Medien und die psychische Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Diskussion Nr. 40, Halle (Saale): Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. thomasmetzinger.com/wp-content/u...
- With J. Brailovskaia, J. Buchmann, R. Hertwig, C. Montag, A.-R. Sadeghi, S. Schneider, I. Spiecker gen. Döhmann, I. & A. Waldherr. Social Media and the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents. Discussion No 40, Halle (Saale): German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. doi.org/10.26164/leo....
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- Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Christopher Timmermann profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.timmermann... wins the €20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize mpe-project.info/wp-content/u... for 2025 with this contribution: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerNew preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘 Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
- Internationaler Strafgerichtshof ersetzt Microsoft Office
- "... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis." "... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. " www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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- This is relevant for applied ethics: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- “Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth,” he told me. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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- Your PDF is here: www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/re...
- Now available in English: The German National Academy's Proposal for Social Media & Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: www.leopoldina.org/en/publicati...
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- Reposted by Thomas Metzinger🚨 New article in #NCONSC! Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity @antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
- Not such a bad summary at all.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=k72T...
- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerA psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience
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- I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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- 16-hour surgery.... How many animals have died for this year's William James prize at #ASSC28? I didn't have this in mind when Bernard Baars, William Banks, George Buckner, David Chalmers, Stanley Klein, Bruce Mangan, David Rosenthal, Patrick Wilken, and me created the ASSC in 1994.
- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerEnjoying the atmosphere at @assc28.bsky.social here in Crete! It's great to be around a lot of researches focused on our actual experience. Also looking forward to Edmundo Lopez-Sola's poster coming up and @matthewsacchet.bsky.social 's talk this afternoon on advanced meditation. :) #assc28
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- OpenAI Seems to Be Making a Very Familiar, Very Cynical Choice www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
- Reposted by Thomas MetzingerAction speaks louder than words. Danish Minister of Digitalisation @carolinestage.bsky.social wants to phase out Microsoft from the ministry to reduce the dependency on US tech. This will be a long process. But actual action, not just talking points, is noteworthy!
- "Die gigantischen, wachsenden Schadenssummen sind in Wahrheit Subventionen für Exxon, Total, Chevron und Co., aber auch für Kohlekonzerne wie RWE und Leag." www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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