Consciousness - tlab

[Qualia structure] Tentatively, we decided the dates for the next summer school! 2027/Sep/19-Oct/2 in Okinawa (Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology + nearby location for the 2nd week) We'll announce the lecturers, programs, application forms in next few months!

[Consciousness Radio] Are We Conscious of What We Don’t Attend To? | Karla Matić - one of the organizers of the MESEC summer school in Carcassonne! youtu.be/PdLeqitdGiA?... Our first attempt to use GoPro for walking interview. From MESEC to discussio on qualia in periphery.

[Consciousness Radio] Interview with Steve Fleming - part 1/2 youtu.be/7T-7QmCi0-M?... @mesec_ This long chat with Steve was perhaps one of the highlight of my Mesec participation this year. We'll go into more depth in the part 2.

New open-access paper out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science Francesco Ellia & Naotsugu Tsuchiya A thread 1/n🧵 www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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I may even argue that 21 gram is entanglement.

[Consciousness-Radio] mystery of qualia: Bridging neurons and experience - Interview with Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Oxford) at Mesec summer school! youtu.be/DXOEyFSmKcc?... @mesec_ Why does vision feel like vision, while audition feels completely different?

[Qstr Seminar Series] Andrew Haun: The structure of visual experience youtu.be/78llaIG_oOk?... Drawing on our recent Trends in Cognitive Sciences paper, The Unfathomable Richness of Seeing, I will argue that visual experience is fundamentally structured in ways that extend beyond the ...

[j-club] Kob, “Methodological Structuralism and the Two-Factor Approach" presented by Qianchen Liang youtu.be/atPBappIbe4?... paper link: doi.org/10.33735/phi....

[j-club] Buddhism meets physics: the dilemma of causality (Matteo Grasso) lnkd.in/gxY3k8zA Welcome to the Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure channel. We are a dedicated research community exploring the deep intersections of neuroscience, philosophy, and physics.

[youtube] Dr. Zoe Youngzie Lee: From local to global qualia: Structure of global phenomenal consciousness? youtu.be/nsR-f1jiOuU?... Lee-Youngzie, Tsuchiya, Robinson, Dietz, Monti. “Towards a Mathematical Structure of Global Phenomenal Consciousness.” doi.org/10.3390/e280....

Why Physics May Not Explain Everything | Naotsugu Tsuchiya youtu.be/eDBjdEzp5Y0?... Closer to Truth This one is pretty short.

[new preprint! to be a chapter for Qualia Structure Book] "The View from Among: a Relational Epistemology for Structural Approaches" @ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/publication/... by @ellia.bsky.social and me. Structural alternative (1st person plural) against 1st or 3rd-person perspective

Can We Measure Qualia? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya youtu.be/lvZ5ZufigZ4?... my interview with @CloserToTruth 3/4. Here I'm getting at the Yoneda perspective (in stead of "red" qualia, we look at a web of relations around "red") - Essence of the Qualia Structure paradigm.

[Consciousness Radio] Thomas Andrillon - [2/3] - As an Editor for Neuroscience of Consciousness youtu.be/y_o_j8irN6s?... via @YouTube in which I asked Thomas what he thinks about ASSC and NoC!

[j-club] Birch: The Edge of Sentience Chapter 16 (Presented by Francesco... youtu.be/UScZgmzkK0k?... via @YouTube LLMs and the Gaming Problem (Francesco) - Birch’s two projects distinguished: - Practical/ethical: why sentience _candidates_ matter morally more than resolving

[consciousness radio] Interview with @YotaKawashima (former lab member) youtu.be/aALaXW3Q2Bo?... @YouTube It's been a while since we physically met last time.

Is your RED the same as my RED? Qualia with Prof Nao Tsuchiya youtu.be/MvV1Dhx7KDI?... via @YouTube Had a nice conversation with @drphilipdavies. Guess a lot of philosophers may not like it, but let's see. I think I represented my current thinking (qualia structure, etc) well.

[latest Stage 2 Registered report!] Common signatures of loss of responsiveness in human and macaque electrocorticogram osf.io/preprints/ps... via @OsfFramework to appear in PNAS Nexus if everything works... by Shimaoka, Hemmi, Leung, Price, Banks, Nourski, Tsuchiya

[latest Qualia Structure Math paper] Measuring the Diversity of Qualia: Category-Theoretic Indices for Psychophysical Experimental Data @F1000Research, f1000research.com/articles/15-... by Kusano, Saigo, Tsuchiya

[latest Stage 1 Registered Report from our lab] Disentangling experience from reportability: A massive-report paradigm for visual experience outside goal-oriented attention osf.io/preprints/ps... via @OsfFramework Chuyin, Z., & Tsuchiya, N. (2026, June 18).

[Consciousness Radio] Prof Anina Rich - on synesthesia, attention, consciousness youtu.be/BF8xKOo9PeA?... via @YouTube chat with Anna, Anson and Nao at sunny MBI.

[Qstr Seminar series] Tomoya Nakai youtu.be/7_Bq9dmJfr4?... via @YouTube Elucidating Individual Differences and Commonalities in the Neural Representational Structure of Numerical Information

[Qstr Seminar series] Noburo Saji 20260421 youtu.be/xDEbcuSOlKA?... via @YouTube Relationship between language and qualia structure

What are the Indecomposable Phenomenal Units of Qualia Structures? osf.io/preprints/ps... by Nao Tsuchiya & @kanair Ryota Kanai. To be published as a chapter for Qualia Structure (Springer-Nature, 2027)!

Me too! Honored to be part of this awesome volume. Hearty congrats to Lucia Meloni and Umberto Olcese and the Chapter editors for pulling this together. (Like herding cats, I imagine.) Looking forward to its publication. #consciousness

Happy to be a part of this gigantic volume! The Scientific Study of Consciousness www.horizon-minds.com 43 chapters! Great work, @lucia and @Umberto (We are also trying to generate an edited volume on Qualia Structure, as of now 29 chapters...)

[Qstr pre-MTG j-club] Matteo Grasso/Kyoko Kusano youtu.be/6bqHWzA-F2s?... 1) On a confusion about there being two types of consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science... 2) Unpacking the Complexities of Consciousness: Theories and Reflections. www.sciencedirect.com/science...

[Qstr pre-MTG j-club] Francesco & Qianchen youtu.be/G5l5lFsD1MU?... 1) Selves as Perspectives From Biological Life and Superintelligence and a Bodhisattva project osf.io/preprints/ps... 2) Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

[latest Qstr output] A structural approach in cognitive developmental research with category theory karger.com/hde/article/... by @moriguchiy , @NaoTsuchiya , Saigo

[Qstr pre-MTG j-cluub] Inner presence: consciousness as a biological phenomenon Ch2 & Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism youtu.be/WJyMl4B5xso?... via @YouTube by Chikayo Hemmi & Moritz Kriegleder @mokriegleder @ChikayoHemmi

[Qstr Seminar series] Nao Tsuchiya youtu.be/KSoeP0EpGG0?... Introducing the Qualia Structure Project Presentation Series (and a bit of intro the projects in the Tsuchiya lab)

[our latest Registered Report - Stage 1 preprint] The Neural Basis of Consciousness During Evening Naps Measured by MEG: A Registered Report osf.io/preprints/ps...

Do we all see the same red? Or feel joy and sadness alike? Mapping how our inner experiences relate to one another could finally reveal how physical processes in the brain give rise to consciousness Very readable! Thanks, George! @gmusser www.newscientist.com/article/2519...

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I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Mind Reading and Manipulation? A guest seminar talk by Dr Junjie Wu (Jonathan) youtu.be/CjEG1KTOtOk?... via @YouTube Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as tools for understanding Bilingual Brain

[PDF downloadable for free!] Latest paper from our lab and Qualia Structure. "Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science": Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Congrats @ellia.bsky.social !