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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

If sound is working, the song whose bass dictates the tremors is by artist ||||||||||||||||||| (barcode) - Almost There.

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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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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This means more than you know! Thank you kindly, sir. 😊

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I want to thank them, deeply. This paper was not in the same shape as it is now when initially submitted and the #peer-#review #process was as top-tier as it gets! 19/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The #review #process was sharp, and the reviewers went to great lengths to understand the structure the paper. I can imagine this was not easy; there were many new conceptual and technical to grapple with. 18/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is so much more to say on this, but I implore you to grasp out with your minds and read the paper (if you are so interested), this thread is already getting out of hand. As always I welcome all and any feedback. This has been a tremendous pleasure. 17/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, it appears it does. Results of this projection were differentiable and didn't inform us of the #scale #integration, nor of the #multiscale #organisation of the dynamics, a descriptive utility that *only* emerges when we #unfold the #multiscale #dynamics. 16/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hold that this research programme is promising and cannot be reduced to source level dynamics. We even tried(!) by projecting the n-macros back onto the source dynamics to see if maybe going "macro" doesn't add anything. 15/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exploring the emergent macrodynamics offers a new way of understanding complex neural systems, whereby we can identify the multiscale emergent organisation as well as the degree of scale integration! 14/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From this dual working definition of #multiscale #emergence important inferences emerge (😅) that are worth chasing up---these two paragraphs in our discussion do a good job at summarising that: 13/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But we can do some stats as well, and we show that #wakefulness reveals a significantly more structured emergent landscape across scales than both, #propofol and #xenon, but, when #compared to #ketamine, some preservation of structure is revealed in ketamine too! 12/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As raw data, for each subject and macroscale, the data look something like this.. 12/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Giving us a proxy for the organisation of the energy landscape, or emergent landscape at those scales. We introduce the #structure-#fragmentation (SF) index to ascertain the degree of (dis)organisation of the #multiscale #emergent landscape of dynamics. 11/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But, that is only one of interesting questions that arose. We also explored the organisation of the #emergent #landscape across each respective scale. We compare the 100 minimal n-macros found on each scale, n, and obtain a 'similarity score' of lower-dim spaces. 10/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've been grappling with this question in more recent work on #AI #consciousness here: (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) And partially, @anilseth.bsky.social, here: (cambridge.org/core/journal...) and recently, here: (cambridge.org/core/journal...) 9/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Neat, right!? I was intuitively expecting to relate more emergent neural dynamics with conscious awareness. But this opened up a #fascinating #Q (4 years ago now): might #multiscale #integration, at least in this sense, be a marker of wake? Does anaesthesia disturb this? 8/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That suggests the macroscopic scales show more #scale #integration with the #source #level #EEG activity in wake compared to propofol and xenon. Not so much if compared to #ketamine though. In fact, the results are reversed. 7/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now, with that out of the way, lets get into the nitty gritty. We show that under this definition wake is marked by #reduced #emergence of multiscale dynamics compared to #xenon and #propofol, whereas #ketamine shows #heightened #emergence! 6/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We define emergence by a dual property which (i) captures the degree of dynamical closure of the macro w.r.t the micro, and (ii) IDs the organisation of the emergent landscape on each scale. This gives us a working definition of multiscale emergence. 5/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But, what the hell is #multiscale #emergence anyway(?!) In this paper, what we mean by it is captured by identifying lower-dimensional subspaces we call 'n'-macros in EEG which represent dynamically closed dynamics. We do this across dimensionalities, i.e., across scales. 3/n

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Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Building on our previous research (@plos.org Comp. Biol.) taking a 'dynamical closure' and multiscale perspective of emergence (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40354301/), we wanted to examine how multiscale emergent dynamics are #reorganised #under #anaesthesia and #wakefulness. 2/n

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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 · 14/05/2026

Fortunately, I've never had the experience. I hope we have the poise to avoid it.

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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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