ASSC 26

Recordings of five symposia from the ASSC are now available to watch online: “Animal Consciousness Beyond Mammals”, with Jonathan Birch (@birchlse), Andrew Crump, Matilda Gibbons, Peter Godfrey-Smith (@pgodfreysmith), and L. Syd M. Johnson (@LSydMJohnson) youtu.be/Uyxxmjgbz4s

Beta desynchronization (in motor cortex) seems to be under power of will, to correlate with conscious readiness to do a task (such as exact moment to bungie-jump), and to correlate with going ahead and doing the task. But, ramping up readiness potential is not under power of will…

recordings from five symposia at @ASSC26nyc: affect and perception youtu.be/eJsWD6PyPNY animal C beyond mammals youtu.be/Uyxxmjgbz4s introspection youtu.be/Hw0UdzI8cSc learning and C youtu.be/yTfKvYioYcs  mathematical spaces for C youtu.be/DvK_wU7qPZw

elisabeth parés pujolràs (@elisabethpares), winner of the @theASSC william james prize for 2023, presents her prize-winning paper on "the neural bases of motor awareness" at @ASSC26nyc. youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9lqz…

A fourth video recording from the #ASSCnyc, this one of Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs (@elisabethpares), who won this year’s William James Prize for “The Neural Bases of Motor Awareness” youtu.be/ZA9lqzBDugo

My Presidential Keynote at @ASSC26nyc on Our Four Realms of Existence

🧠"Putting #consciousness in a broader biological context" - Fascinating talk by neuroscientist, author and #RockStar @theamygdaloid Joe LeDoux @LeDouxScience @theASSC @ASSC26nyc

joe ledoux's presidential address at @ASSC26nyc, on “our four realms of existence": biology, neurobiology, cognition, and consciousness. @theamygdaloid and check out amygdaloids.net, for "neuroscience meets rock and roll". youtube.com/watch?v=jjjDx_…

The third of our video recordings from @ASSC26nyc, this time the presidential address by Joseph LeDoux, aka @theamygdaloid, talking about “Our Four Realms of Existence: A Fresh Look at the Science of What and Who We Are” youtu.be/jjjDx_fGIYY

@OryanZacks and @DariaZakharova9 both gave superb talks in an excellent concurrent session (which I chaired) on animal and infant consciousness. The reporter from the Economist sat in the front row and asked many questions. No one talked about IIT in that session as I recall.

What it is like to be an intellectual giant like Thomas Nagel.

machine learning pioneer #yoshuabengio sets out to "make a dent in the hard problem" of consciousness, in his keynote talk at @ASSC26nyc: "sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states". youtube.com/watch?v=ntVlZ5…

We've now posted a video of Yoshua Bengio's ASSC 26 keynote: “Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States”. Stay tuned as we post more of the conference videos! youtu.be/ntVlZ5mpl9o