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Naotsugu Tsuchiya

@naotsuchiya.bsky.social
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Prof at Monash U (Aus) and Leader in Department of Qualia Structure in ATR (Japan). Lab home page: sites.google.com/monash.edu/tlab/ho…. My first book in Japanese: tinyurl.com/43ad7fyx

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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
【意識ラジオ|居酒屋トーク Part 1】AIに意識はあるのか? 金井良太×土谷尚嗣、渋谷で本音トーク www.youtube.com/live/q6uvlxk... @YouTubeより 昨日のライブ放送をAIにThumbnail とサマリーをつくってもらい、整理しました。
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【意識ラジオ|居酒屋トーク Part 1】AIに意識はあるのか? 金井良太×土谷尚嗣、渋谷で本音トーク
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
[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.
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[Consciousness Radio] Interview with Steve Fleming - part 1/2
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
[Qstr seminar series] Ruth Rosenholtz: The visual awareness pipeline Peripheral vision makes us underestimate the richness of awareness. Think of awareness as a series of bottlenecks where unseen uncertainty accumulates. youtu.be/fvYllP8onEg?...
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[Qstr seminar series] Ruth Rosenholtz: The visual awareness pipeline
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can Mathematics Connect Qualia and the Brain? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya youtu.be/6MARoJZL18M?... What if two conscious experiences do not need to be identical to be meaningfully comparable?
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Can Mathematics Connect Qualia and the Brain? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya
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Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science @mesec-community.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a week! We had inspiring talks and discussions with our fantastic speakers @jolienfrancken.bsky.social, @neurograce.bsky.social, @seanfw.bsky.social, @naotsuchiya.bsky.social 🧠🧠🧠 #consciousness #consci #academicsky
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
[Consciousness Radio] Thomas Andrillon - [3/3] - How to review AI-generated papers?https://youtu.be/KZ1CBsPpqNU?si=tiIGEiX1HfVYYmII @YouTube より From the latest in consciousness research to the impact of disruptive technologies like AI on academic publishing...
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How Should We Test Theories of Consciousness? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya youtu.be/gIbO9O3AoOs?... @YouTube This is probably the last part of the interview with Robert. Thanks @CloserToTruth!
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How Should We Test Theories of Consciousness? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya
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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is a book chapter written with @naotsuchiya.bsky.social for the upcoming Qualia Structure Book (2027) an edited volume that collects various perspectives about Qualia Structure and related structural approaches.
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
[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!
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[Consciousness Radio] Thomas Andrillon - [2/3] - As an Editor for Neuroscience of Consciousness
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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.
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Can We Measure Qualia? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
[Consciousness Radio] Thomas Andrillon - a former member of the t-lab [1/3[ youtu.be/bq6ffLF_KZY?... @YouTube In part 1, Thomas talks about how he came to interested in science of consciousness
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[Consciousness Radio] Thomas Andrillon - a former member of the t-lab [1/3[
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can We Measure Conscious Experience? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya youtu.be/9vSEq2GiRrk?... 2nd part of the interview with @CloserToTruth . Very interesting to see the comments, oh gosh. This must be what it is like to be grilled or 炎上 in Japan!
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Can We Measure Conscious Experience? | Naotsugu Tsuchiya
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
[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
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[j-club] Birch: The Edge of Sentience Chapter 16 (Presented by Francesco Ellia)
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
[consciousness radio] Interview with @YotaKawashima (former lab member) youtu.be/aALaXW3Q2Bo?... @YouTube It's been a while since we physically met last time.
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[consciousness radio] Interview with Yota Kawashima (former lab member)
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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.
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Is your RED the same as my RED? Qualia with Prof Nao Tsuchiya
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
[consciousness radio] Kamran Diba, how to get two Nature papers in a row! youtu.be/GwrePVGs1OA?... @YouTube An informal conversation with Kamran, now Prof in Uni Michigan, who transitioned from a physicist, a biophysicist, to an experimentalist!
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[consciousness radio] Kamran Diba, how to get two Nature papers in a row!
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Three Divides in Consciousness Research- Nao Tsuchiya Great fun to be interviewed by Robert Kuhn for @CloserToTruth in Barcelona in 2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mx... Took long for this released, so long that I wonder whether I said something wrong, never seeing the light of day...
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The Three Divides in Consciousness Research | Naotsugu Tsuchiya
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Just found a goldmine of 38 "hidden" videos on our YouTube channel! 🤯 Turns out they're my 2022 lectures on the neural basis of consciousness (~20 mins each). Finally set them to public—enjoy the deep dive! 🧠✨ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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2022 Neural Basis of Consciousness - YouTube
This is the lectures that I gave in 2022 on the neural basis of consciousness.
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
編集者 @SatoTakash1 さんにまとめていただいた、クオリア構造PIのインタビュー「クオリアを巡る冒険」(集英社「よみタイ」の連載企画)は、2024年8月から2026年5月8日までに23,895 PVを獲得しました! t.co/6z1cXXZjQ4 各個別のインタビュー記事は、週間ランキングで上位を記録したみたいです。最新の記事、鈴木大地さんのものは、現時点で週間ランキング2位 連載はとりあえず、今回で終わりです。結構良いアウトリーチになったとは思います。興味をもたれた方は、個々のPIの方に感想など送っていただけると嬉しい😆です。
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
[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
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[Qstr pre-MTG j-cluub] Inner presence Ch 2 & Conscious artificial intelligence
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
[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)
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[Qstr Seminar series] Nao Tsuchiya "Qualia Structure Project Presentation Series"
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
[Qstr pre-MTG j-club] @ellia.bsky.social @imuneki Ikeda youtu.be/VvidRdKn8tA?... via @YouTube with @yutogashi158722 @tanichu @suz_dg
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[Qstr pre-MTG j-club] Francesco Ellia/Muneki Ikeda
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
クオリア構造PI 堀井隆斗さん @takato1414 (by 佐藤喬さん @SatoTakash1 ) youtu.be/2hn5SBxmyEo?... @YouTubeより
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クオリア構造PI 堀井隆斗さん インタビュー (by 佐藤喬さん)
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Consciousness - 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 !
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Explanation, scope, and perspective: sources of schismogenesis in consciousness science
Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks—structuralist versus functionalist, universal versus local, intrinsic versus extrinsic—appear to be inducing philo...
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
加藤文元さんインタビュー。「はじめての圏論」と米田の補題。自然変換、随伴と、どう圏論の時間発展を考えるか? 足し算(大小関係)と掛け算(整除関係)という関係性の関係とABC予想、クオリア構造、意識と数学。 youtu.be/wfj3rw9yocI?... ライブ配信は失敗!ズームで録画していた分は大丈夫だったのでアップしました。
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加藤文元さんインタビュー。「はじめての圏論」と米田の補題。クオリア構造、意識と数学。
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We have published the member page for the second period of the Publicly Offered Research Group! | QUALIA STRUCTURE - JSPS Transformative Area (A) 2023-2028 qualia-structure.jp/news/detail/...
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後期公募班のメンバーページを公開しました! | クオリア構造学 - JSPS Transformative Area (A) 2023-2028
公募班第2期のメンバーページを公開しました!新たに27名の研究メンバーを迎えました。ぜひ、メンバーページをご覧ください。
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
In @elife: Anesthesia Lowers Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif... by Jiahao Wu, Taisuke Yoneda, Kallum Robinson, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Yumiko Yoshimura
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Anesthesia Lowers Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A New Paper co-authored by Zhang Chuyin, Lin Lipeng, and NaotsuguTsuchiya from Planning Group A01 has been published in MethodsX! | QUALIA STRUCTURE - JSPS Transformative Area (A) 2023-2028 en.qualia-structure.jp/news/detail/...
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A New Paper co-authored by Zhang Chuyin, Lin Lipeng, and NaotsuguTsuchiya from Planning Group A01 has been published in MethodsX! | QUALIA STRUCTURE - JSPS Transformative Area (A) 2023-2028
計画班A01のZhang Chuyinさん、Lin Lipengさん、土谷尚嗣さんの共著論文がMethodsXに掲載されました!Open Access でダウンロード可能となっております。ぜひご一読ください。Paper InformationAuthors:  Zha
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
[new paper!] A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection by Chuyin, Lipeng, Tsuchiya www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... PDF freely available!
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A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection
Subjective comparisons of aspects of experience provides reliable and powerful numerical data, which can provide us means to characterize structures o…
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
意識ラジオ 鈴木大地さん 意識の進化について - part 1/2 youtu.be/_JRBWrW5-XA?... @YouTubeより 前回の続きです。Peridotホテルの屋上ビアガーデンにて撮影。
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意識ラジオ 鈴木大地さん 意識の進化について - part 1/2
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
意識ラジオ 鈴木大地さん 意識の進化について - part 1/2 @zampa beach youtu.be/9j4gIs964Ts?... @YouTubeより  (今回は全員男性インタビューになってしまったなぁ。参加者の人は結構女性おおかったんだけど。夜のビーチで話した時あれ録画しとけばよかったかも)
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意識ラジオ 鈴木大地さん 意識の進化について - part 1/2 @zampa beach
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Nao Tsuchiya: The Qualia Structure Paradigm youtu.be/hxnnU-RmrIo?... via @YouTube This is a talk I gave at the Mathematical Phenomenology: Synergies and Connections Workshop of the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (BAMΞ).
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Nao Tsuchiya: The Qualia Structure Paradigm
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
意識ラジオ 岩間大吾さん コーヒーのクオリア構造 言語と意識の関係性 youtu.be/jVJ_zwT3d_4?... @YouTubeより 大学の学部1年生でこんだけ研究できるてるのがすごいよなぁ。俺はその頃合コンとラクロスばっかやってたなぁ。
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意識ラジオ 岩間大吾さん コーヒーのクオリア構造 言語と意識の関係性
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
意識ラジオ 染谷正義さん 意識と生命について。biopsychism 植物や細菌の意識とは? youtu.be/gVEEZHezc8I?... @YouTubeより 久々の意識ラジオです。領域会議中に何個か撮りだめして取って出す予定です。
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意識ラジオ 染谷正義さん 意識と生命について。biopsychism 植物や細菌の意識とは?
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We are very excited to share this new preprint @yutogashi.bsky.social @oizumim.bsky.social with the excellent video providing the idea! The paper explains how this approach actually goes into more details in revealing subtle individual difference and complex structures of color qualia.
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
[preprint] Induced smiling stabilizes visual awareness of positive images during binocular rivalry osf.io/preprints/ps... @OsfFramework by Quettier, Ghislandi, Tsuchiya and Sessa
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Our most recent review on structural approaches to consciousness by Alex Maier www.linkedin.com/in/alexmaier/ and me. philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph... Free to download, thanks to Philosophy, Mind and Science! This is a part of Special Issue: Structuralism in the Science of Consciousness
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Is AI becoming conscious? youtu.be/PEZ2ifjO3gc?... via @YouTube A short footage made by John Elisa, on the AI consciousness debate from a Structuralist and a Functionalist viewpoint. Great work, John! I hope I represented the views more or less correctly...
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Is AI becoming conscious?
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
[newly published! ] Incorporating episodic memory into quantum models of judgement and decision url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article... By Busemeyer, Ozawa, Pothos, Tsuchiya Phil Trans A
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Incorporating episodic memory into quantum models of judgement and decision
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
[new review/opinion paper] Linking the Structure of Neuronal Mechanisms to the Structure of Qualia osf.io/preprints/ps... @OsfFramework to be published in the PhiMiSci special issue on Structuralism! By Maier & Tsuchiya
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Will Mayner @wgpm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I was very happy to talk about my work on extending Integrated Information Theory to account for perception & meaning with @algarwegian.bsky.social. The talk is geared towards those already familiar with IIT, but may still be of interest even if you're not. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.21111
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Intrinsic meaning, perception, and matching
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Will Mayner @wgpm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The questions didn't make it into the recording, so you can only hear my responses—but the questions were great and so were the discussions afterwards. Thanks to @naotsuchiya.bsky.social, Hayato Saigo, and @ellia.bsky.social for organizing such an excellent summer school at NSAS!
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Schismogenesis of Consciousness Science - Francesco Ellia ASPP 2025 youtu.be/EFTV3JvEMBY?... @YouTube
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The Schismogenesis of Consciousness Science - Francesco Ellia ASPP 2025
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Zhang Chuyin @zhangchuyin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
If your stimulus set is so large that each participant can only use a part of it, do you know random selection is not a good way to distribute the stimuli? We introduced a methodology to collect data efficiently. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @qualiastructure.bsky.social doi.org/10.13140/RG....
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(PDF) A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection
PDF | On Dec 3, 2025, Z Chuyin and others published A dynamic stimulus distribution methodology for efficient large-scale pairwise relational data collection | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 4: Melanie Boly: NCC insight from clinical studies youtu.be/Ot2PlgJtaHw?... via @YouTube
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[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 4: Melanie Boly: NCC insight from clinical studies
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
[Consciousness Radio] Collective C and quantum cognition with hyper-scanning? Guillaume Dumas-5 youtu.be/bB0nWLlsEbA?... @YouTube
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[Consciousness Radio] Collective C and quantum cognition with hyper-scanning? Guillaume Dumas-5
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 4 Will Mayner: Matching and Meaning in IIT youtu.be/NN0vxe0Xp8c?... @YouTube
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[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 4 Will Mayner: Matching and Meaning in IIT
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Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@naotsuchiya.bsky.social CHAINのクラウドファンディングです。土谷さんも応援してください!https://readyfor.jp/projects/chain2025
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「人間とは何か?」を学際的に問い直すーCHAIN異分野融合教育支援 - クラウドファンディング READYFOR
人文社会科学・脳科学・AIを融合する北海道大学CHAIN。学際的教育を通じて「人間とは何か」を探究し次世代人材を育成します。 - クラウドファンディング READYFOR
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 4 Billy Marshall: artificial consciousness youtu.be/3QN_gM-hCB4?... via @YouTube
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[Qstr-IIT summer school 2025] Day 4 Billy Marshall: Dissociating AI from artificial consciousness
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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
[Consciousness Radio] Collective C and quantum cognition with hyper-scanning? Guillaume Dumas-4https://youtu.be/hP5XNgqSU30?si=5Ln4Z5vATNW5deB5 @YouTubeより
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