iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I'm releasing the "1000×1000 collection": a unified place to learn about dynamical structure. 1000 simulated time series (1000 samples each) spanning 133 dynamical processes. Have a play? 🐛 #timeseries #dynamicalsystems #complexity #opendata dynamicsandneuralsystems.github.io/1000x1000/

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Variations_on_a_theme_270926. #Emergent #Multiscale #Organisation across (un)conscious states. I’ve been toying with how we visualise data as #digital #art- (ifacts). I am using @blender.org‘s particle systems, scientific data is the medium. Art accompanying the publication.

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An incredible effort and resource for those exploring the myriad positions on the relevance of biology to synthetic systems and beyond. Well done @anilseth.bsky.social!

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The use of major open problems in mathematics as AI benchmarks mistakes the nature and aims of mathematics: “solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.”

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...

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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For those that understand, and those that do not.. 🫀

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Hardik Rajpal @h-rajpal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What role does Emergence play in Neural Networks? We find that learning emergent low-dimensional representations is key for out-of-distribution generalisation. New Preprint out with @neural-reckoning.org arxiv.org/abs/2607.10430

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Emergent Generalization by Representation Learning in Artificial Neural Networks

Dimensionality reduction has proven powerful for identifying neural manifolds, which are low-dimensional structures underlying high-dimensional neural activity. These low-dimensional representations h...

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 22/07/2026

Cover reveal for David Tong's EVERYTHING IS FIELDS, publishing March 16, 2027! From one of today’s leading theoretical physicists comes a witty, exuberant tour of quantum fields, the fluid-like substances that make up our entire universe.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of discussing -- more informally and deeply -- on computation, consciousness, multiscalarity, and autonomy, with the ever-hospitable @drmichaellevin.bsky.social , Nicholas Rouleau, and @jaanaru.bsky.social:

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Computationalism and consciousness with Nic Rouleau, Jaan Aru, and Borjan Milinkovic.

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Joseph Lizier @jlizier.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Bumping our call for contributed talks for Methods in Information Theory Workshop at CNS*2026 in Halifax, July 14-15 - still slots available, but time is running out! See our workshop website: jlizier.github.io/CNS2026-Info... Organised by @marilyngatica.bsky.social @funsycnrs.bsky.social & me!

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

@macshine.bsky.social talks with @satra.bsky.social about the #OHBM2026 Abstract Atlas—a community-built tool that places every 2026 abstract inside the broader neuroscience landscape. Where does your work sit in the field? #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-source-...

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Finding your place in neuroscience

A new tool places every OHBM 2026 abstract inside a semantic map of the neuroscience literature, so you can find your neighbors.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Congratulations @adriendoerig.bsky.social and @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social. Some worthy notes in here, and glad more are pursuing thinking in this direction. Onward and upward!

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Johannes Kleiner @johanneskleiner.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sneak peek of what I think will be an amazing workshop on tests for consciousness 😊, made possible by @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @aidaelamrani.bsky.social! You're cordially invited to join us! 𝗖-𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 June 8 – 10, 2026 Online (Zoom) www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The amount of times I have used LLMs and noticed them severely lacking in critical analyses with many incorrect assumptions, particularly on the edge-cases of knowledge, is astounding. If reviewers are using AI to help review articles this is a tragedy for new ideas and science! I beg, don't.

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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.

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Scientific Theories of Consciousness

Cambridge Core - Neurosciences - Scientific Theories of Consciousness

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Given my *obvious* predilections, this will be a keen and interesting read. ✌️😅

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

No more power ups please. I just wanna chill and do my thang. I’ll be AI generating my way right into the stone age if this continues.

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Love this, "Posture follows movement like a shadow" (quoted from Sherrington). Why the F***(@!#!@#) is it not acceptable to write such beautiful, moving lines in papers these days? 🫠

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hello dreamers, I would like to crowdsource how we test for consciousness(?) Do you know of any papers exploring these topics. Feel free to link anything, even if you think I'm aware of the paper (i.e., Bayne et al.'s paper, etc.). #consciousness #neuroscience #sentience

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Very nice! Will be looking into this with interest..

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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In episode 886, I talk with Dr. Randall Beer about autopoiesis, enactivism, dynamical systems, and evo-devo approaches in #Biology. #CognitiveScience #Science youtu.be/1YcSgczYqKk

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#886 Randall Beer: Autopoiesis, Enactivism, Dynamical Systems, and Evo-Devo Approaches in Biology

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Our latest publication grapples with how the brain could implement gradient descent by sending learning targets top-down, gating plasticity with dendritic inhibition, and updating synaptic weights with biologically observed learning rules like BTSP. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Cellular and subcellular specialization enables biology-constrained deep learning

Galloni et al. introduce “dendritic target propagation”: a Dale’s law-compliant learning algorithm for cortical microcircuits with soma- and dendrite-targeting inhibition and realistic connectivity co...

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It was a privilege to be able to talk on our view of synthetic consciousness for the @activeinference.bsky.social. Thanks for the questions! I'm excited about what we are attempting to do here. If you're interested in some hints of extensions and future work we have planned, do have a listen.

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ActInf GuestStream 127.1: On biological and artificial consciousness... (Milinkovic & Aru)

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Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Happy to share our preprint mapping the structure of theories of consciousness and their predictions, with @edenelbaz.bsky.social, @shaifischer.bsky.social, @maorschreiber.bsky.social, and @liadmudrik.bsky.social. Accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Supplementary: osf.io/9xug8/overview

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This will be top! C'est top! You should definitely apply to give a kick ass talk, hang out with fellow mathy nerds, and chat cool stuff. #MoC7 #AMCS #slay

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If you were interested in the original paper, but no longer have time for reading or just like videos, I recently gave a talk hosted by the kind and erudite @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, which you can now view on his youtube channel. Thank you enormously for having me! @jaanaru.bsky.social

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"On Biological and Artificial Consciousness" by Borjan Milinkovic and Jaan Aru

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A behind-the-hood metric of synergistic emergence applied to neurodegeneration. Well done @keenandown.bsky.social and team! A next step would be to apply this to firing rates underlying the fMRI (totally not hinting at a collab) ;-)

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Quantifying emergence in neural populations. Great to see this preprint out by Hardik and co! Very nice results. I love the use of the Izhikevich neuron. Complements nicely prev. work colleagues and I published on a *different* measure of emergence in biophysical neural models (see next comment)

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is shaping up to be a great event with top speakers. If you’re interested in the continuity of minds it’s well worth checking out.

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Antoine Lutz @antoinelutz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

www.universite-lyon.fr/nos-domaines... A Chinese student holding a Master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience and a strong interest in meditation research is eligible to apply for this PhD scholarship at the University of Lyon before February 23, 2026. Details are provided below.

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Perceptual Awareness and Non-Dual Mindfulness: An EEG Continuous Flash Suppression Study

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A fun, very Jaan-like, and inspiring discussion about some principles outlined in our most recent paper on #biological #computationalism. The clear mind of @jaanaru.bsky.social at it for @thetransmitter.bsky.social

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Writing is *not* thinking. I've heard the counterargument to this, used recently to save writing from saturated #LLM usage. But, all it does is give more credence to LLM architectures and their instantiation of mind. It is a Chomskyan fallacy to equate #language and #thought. They are not the same.

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a full thread, see: x.com/_victorbarne...

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Rony @ronyhirsch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

New preprint! with @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ve6c5_v1 Consciousness seems central to moral status debates, from AI to animal welfare. But is consciousness necessary for moral status? Is it sufficient? We surveyed >1000 people to find out. 🧵 1/n

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Ivan Mindlin @ivanmindlin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

📄Very happy to share our new pre-print!! 🧠 We introduce a homeostatic inhibitory plasticity rule into the Dynamic Mean Field (DMF) model which stabilizes firing rates and expands the model’s dynamical repertoire—for example, enabling slow-wave activity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/5

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The impact of homeostatic inhibitory plasticity in a generative biophysical model

A main characteristic of biological systems is their capacity to dynamically adapt to environmental changes. In the brain, synaptic plasticity enables the strengthening or weakening of connections bet...

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

What is the difference between autonomy and agency?

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