Robert Chis-Ciure
@robertchisciure
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ERC Research Fellow at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (Anil Seth’s lab)
Joined October 2017
The paper me and @Francescoellia wrote on the relation between Integrated Information Theory and the Hard Problem of Consciousness has just been published in Foundations of Science (@SpringerNature) Check it out: https://t.co/WZ53NKDELx Link is full access, please share :)
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"Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity." (Whitehead, A. N. - Process and Philosophy) Only if more thinkers would realize that "self-correction" does not imply elimination, but rather suppression of nongeneralizable variance
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In my PhD project I aim to connect IIT with Kant’s transcendental philosophy, and argue for the centrality of the ‘transcendental standpoint’ in contemporary consciousness study. Such ideas can also be found in Free Energy Principle inspired theories /2
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My American Odyssey just started! I’ve won a Fulbright Grant to conduct research for one academic year at UWM. I’m affiliated with the Center for Sleep and Consciousness, under the supervision of prof. Giulio Tononi. My research topic is the philosophical foundations of IIT. /1
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"Stimuli from the environment are not spatially organized in themselves: there is no extendedness, no region or location, no size, boundary or distance in a sensory stimulus unless one presupposes that space already exists intrinsically in the mind of an observer." Haun&Tononi:33
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"Space represents no property at all of any things in themselves nor any relation of them to each other, i.e., no determination of them that attaches to objects themselves and that would remain even if one were to abstract from all subjective conditions of intuition." (Kant) 2/
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At least one important theory of consciousness, i.e., Integrated Information Theory, exhibits striking similarities with Kantian transcendental idealism. See below two quotes, one from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, the other from Haun & Tononi (2019) phenomenal space paper. 1/
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What was Kant trying to do in his CPR? CPR on metaphysics.
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Can't wait
We're hosting a debate about the "unfolding argument". Glad to have @LAlbantakis, @AdrienDoerig, @jake_r_hanson, @AndrewHaun3, @erikphoel, @niccolo_negro join the panel. The session will take place on September 15, 3pm Berlin time. (Convert time zone: https://t.co/hHcB309xjc)
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Hi everyone! Turns out IIT 3.0 can be defined in a beautiful and concise way using somewhat more abstract math! https://t.co/DxeMvBhesu Thanks @Sean_E_Tull for this long an wonderful project! Looking forward to feedback from the IIT community!
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Our latest paper on IIT! Now freely available as a PDF. By Cohen, Sasai, Tsuchiya, Oizumi: "A general spectral decomposition of causal influences applied to integrated information"
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