1/ Can AI be conscious? My @BBSjournal target article on ‘Conscious AI and biological naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories.

Peak Wimbledon - when the umpire says "please do not pop the champagne corks as the players are about to serve" 🎾🍾❌.

2/ . & look out for two posters in the pm session (4:30pm), Will Yun-Farmbrough on "Modelling Gist Perception and Phenomenology with Natural Hybrid Predictive Coding Networks" & Lionel Barnett on "Short-run Cointegration for Neurophysiological Processes".

1/ Today at @ASSC2025, Robert Chis-Ciure introduced his "Prolegomena to Phenomenomics: Toward a Future Science of Experiential Observers" (studio theatre, 9:30am, already in the past . ).

CORRECTION Boki Milinkovic is at 09:30 not 09:50 - the programme was updated.

5/ . and then in the afternoon poster session: "Is Conscious Perception Necessary to Direct Attention?" from Syrus Chen, Ryan Scott, and Zoltan Dienes.

4/ Trevor Hewitt - "A Novel Questionnaire to Measure the Contents of Visual Hallucinations".

3/ In the lunch poster session, don't miss Cat Moar & Romy Beaute "Comparing Complexity Measures for Distinguishing Conscious States", Paweł Moytka "Subjective and Physiological Effects of Phenomenologically Distinct Simulated Hallucinations in Virtual Reality" . .

2/ at 10:30am, also in the main hall, I will be co-chairing (w/ Cyriel Pennartz) a symposium on "Phenomenology And Neural Mechanisms Of Conscious Space Perception" - featuring new results from the @ArcIntrepid adversarial collaboration.

1/ Today at @ASSC28 from @SussexCentre for Consciousness Science and friends: 9:50am, Kalokainouri Hall, Boki Milinkovic "Unfolding Sleep’s Emergent Dynamical Organisation in the Temporal and Spectral Domains".

8/ & Clara Alonso on "Stuck In My Mind: How Depression Affects Ongoing Conscious Experiences That Are Resistant To Change".

7/ Emily Whelan on "Synaesthesia as a Model for Assessing Individual Differences in Visual Perception and Memory Performance", Will Roseby on "Spatial Organisation of Structural Correlations in Synaesthesia and Autism".

6/ In the afternoon poster session (4:30pm) don't miss Fernando Rodriguez-Vergara, on "Can we Integrate Information in Time? A Study in Cellular Automata About IIT and Temporality",.

5/ Kevin Sheldrake "Can Imagining Actions as Occurring Involuntarily Cause Intentional Behaviour to Feel Involuntary?", and Peter Lush & Zoltan Dienes "Reversing The Rubber Hand Illusion With Phenomenological Control.".

4/ In poster session 1 (10:30am) look out for Maxine Sherman "Subjective Confidence and Subjective Difficulty Are Largely Indistinguishable: Insights From the Perception Census", Robyn Waller "Brain-Computer Interfaces: Disappearing or Extended Conscious Agent?" . .

3/ Adam Barrett (9:40am, studio theatre) will be talking about "Misunderstandings, challenges and opportunities within Integrated Information Theory".

2/ . followed by Ethan Grove, Trevor Hewitt, &c (9:20am, Kalokainouri hall), "Expanding the Description of Stroboscopic Visual Hallucinations via Vision Transformer Clustering of Hand-Drawn Images".

1/ Great start to @ASSC2025 yesterday! This morning, from @SussexCentre, don't miss Ishan Singhal (9am, studio theatre) on "Timely discussions of the nature of conscious content" . .

RT @anilkseth: Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote….

Do you see circles or rectangles? How culturally dependent is perceptual experience? Inspired by two recent studies, I wrote this for today's @guardian: .@chazfirestone.

RT @evan_mcgl: “All of our perceptions and experiences, whether of the self or of the world, all are inside-out controlled and controlling….