andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight." 041
Reposted by andrew haunWill Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When I hear an AI model solved an old maths problem, I ask myself: 1) How many human mathematicians were involved? 2) How much money and freedom were the mathematicians paid to solve the problem? My null hypothesis is that the multi-billion dollar models are not the critical ingredient. 031
Reposted by andrew haunGeorge Musser @georgemusser.com · 30/08/2026Google’s excuse for kowtowing to Trump on Lake Ontario is that it’s just following the Geographic Names Information System. Does that mean Trump could sign an executive order redefining the North Pole to be in Kansas? Why stop there? Rename the constellations? Switch east and west? Up and down? 3224254
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026it's the like the "machines with Genuine People Personalities" from Sirius Cybernetics.. 020
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026great illusion, the "right" and "wrong" interpretations are simultaneously superimposed right before your eyes without any alternation. very nice. 001
Reposted by andrew haunPerception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field. 0179
Reposted by andrew haunYohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Great essay by Ted Chiang on consciousness. He nails the centrality of context. "An observation doesn’t become a convincing piece of evidence because of any specific detail in what’s observed; the context in which that observation takes place is also essential." www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...theatlantic.comNo, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. 0103
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 24/05/2026today at the grocery store as i went to get bananas, there was a guy stocking bananas with the big fruit cart and everything. he had kind of long blond hair and bangs, a very crude sort of medieval pageboy haircut, it stood out. anyways, he said - "welcome in", and i smiled. 111
Reposted by andrew haunQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/05/2026Your eyeballs are riveted with red blood vessels, which deliver the oxygen eyes need to function. But bird eyes, like those shown here, have no blood vessels in sight. How do they see so well without the help of oxygen? www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird... 0296
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 20/05/2026doi.org/10.7554/eLif... more demonstration that world-based spatiotopy isn't a visual cortex thing. Now are we ready to revise the premise? "We perceive the world as stable despite eye movements." No we don't! VC topography isn't invariant to eye movements, and neither is visual perceptiondoi.orgA retinotopic reference frame for space throughout human visual cortex 380
Reposted by andrew haunAndrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, we compare & contrast the theories & predictions being tested by @arc-intrepid.bsky.social -- plus some meta-scientific commentary on theory testing, adversarial collaboration, & Bayesian evidence accumulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comIntegrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative reviewAs neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences – as well as their predict… 1164
Reposted by andrew haunmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial. 69040
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 23/04/2026next time i hear the old "why IIT say C in PHZ", i will point to this: directed chains looping through FC 031
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 23/04/2026catching up on VC vasculature and came across this assertion in Duvernoy et al 1981, which in retrospect makes total sense, except that I'm surprised I've never heard it: "in the striate cortex, **where the most dense vascular network of the nervous system is found** in the internaI granular layer" 120
Reposted by andrew haunEvan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 14234122
Reposted by andrew haunFrancesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026New 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...cell.comExplanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness scienceContemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philo... 1269
Reposted by andrew haunBorjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 14/04/2026🎉 📜 NEW #PREPRINT !! 📜 🎉 Spearheaded by Adam Barrett we tried to tackle some of the challenges of IIT. We confront aspects worth delving into, with an incredible team of collaborators, inc. Pedro Mediano, @frosas.bsky.social, Daniel Bor, Lionel Barnett, and @anilseth.bsky.social.arxiv.orgIntegrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstoodThe integrated information theory of consciousness (IIT) is uniquely ambitious in proposing a mathematical formula, derived from apparently fundamental properties of conscious experience, to describe ... 31711
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 09/04/2026super interesting tractography study showing fine retinotopic connectivity between occipital visual areas, but only in certain circumstances (maybe full-field in early VC - though they only went out 6deg - but only foveal beyond V3?). 000
Reposted by andrew haunConsciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 08/04/2026[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 !cell.comExplanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness scienceContemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philo... 034
Reposted by andrew haunHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"We are wrong because we started the war" should be the anchor point for all coverage of what's happening and it's remarkable how quickly that tends to get obscured. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-countr...hamiltonnolan.comThe Country That Starts the War Is WrongThat's us. 3340100
Reposted by andrew haunJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to 92131685311
Reposted by andrew haunJohan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly 92166224819
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 27/01/2026first i look at your figures & tables; then i read your figure captions; then i peruse your methods and results to better understand your figures & tables. i probably don't read your intro or disc at all unless you cited me and/or i'm in a bad mood. 020
Reposted by andrew haunKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I love this so much. After pushback on his recent "Medicine is the only field that reaches 6 sigma" with "my field, psychophysics is so awesome" he posted this. Hurray all Psychophysicists. LETS CELEBRATE PSYCHOPHYSICS. An island of large effects is us! 34510
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 11/01/2026my only advice is not to fall off the faculty track and get stuck simply "doing science" - i'm now getting paid less than new postdocs *in my lab* ("the lab i am in") 🤦♂️ either become a professor or get a real job, don't take the in-between if you want $$$, that's my ted talk 041
Reposted by andrew haunAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis" 12293830711457
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 29/10/2025ugggghhh why do i keep agreeing to review philosophy papers uggghhhh 030
Reposted by andrew haunBohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · 26/12/2024if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive 2612715935202
Reposted by andrew haunChris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 24/10/2025New - my first piece for @science.org ! Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany. Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...share.googleRats filmed snatching bats from air for first timeStunning hunting behaviour captured in German cave 312041
Reposted by andrew haunJohn Greenwood @jagreenwood.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate 0217
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...cell.comThe unfathomable richness of seeingMany hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more than this – it is unfatho... 1205
Reposted by andrew haunandrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 20/08/2025this is really neat, but couldn't one argue that *all the low-level properties have changed*. every contrast has been rotated and translated - content at every position has been replaced with different content. to see what's "the same" one has to rotate the full image, which is pretty "high level" 111
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 12/09/2025i mean, i get why these demos are interesting, but you know.. if "the rays are not coloured", then how could the paint be? (point being, there aren't really 'blue things' or 'grey things', rather just 'blue appearances', etc) 000
Reposted by andrew haunAndrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555arxiv.orgIntegrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative reviewAs neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr... 14117
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 30/08/2025These LLM AIs are all suffering from a sort of synthetic Anton's syndrome - they have absolutely no capacity for spatial experience (or simulation of it) and yet are unaware of it - they have all the "high level" stuff you get from seeing, so why not behave as though it's *all* really there? 282
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 22/08/2025At first I read this blurb and got all defensive and nitpicky about the obvious misconception of "seeing in N colors" - like "no, color vision is N-d but not in N colors" - but then I thought about it a moment and I think I really like this way of putting it 020
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 20/08/2025this method is neat and i want to learn to use it; but seems to me that the study is basically a demonstration that orientation is really important for recognition (like.. yeah!?) 130
Reposted by andrew haunashlee, mph @avs.bsky.social · 27/07/2025i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots 842490
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Great illusion (for me) www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/c...reddit.comFrom the woahdude community on Reddit: When you see itExplore this post and more from the woahdude community 220
Reposted by andrew haunWill Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I spent an hour this morning procrastinating by writing this one pager "(One of My) Problems with the Science of Aphantasia" osf.io/hr6w5/?view_...osf.io(One of My) Problems with the Science of AphantasiaHosted on the Open Science Framework 493
Reposted by andrew haunLe Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social 121383
andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 14/07/2025great piece, makes me think about how much and in what ways this same critique applies to experimental psychology (with all its brain data and brain explanations) and, in particular, to study of consciousness (having just returned from #ASSC28, I can attest to there being *lots* of "brain talk"....) 110
Reposted by andrew haunandrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...authors.elsevier.com 4197
Reposted by andrew haunThomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Contribute to #NCONSC, the journal of the @theassc.bsky.social, by becoming a reviewer! Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible. To make things simpler, fill in this quick form to register your interest in reviewing for #NCONSC! 1127