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Romy Beauté

@romybeaute.bsky.social

PhD researcher at @Sussex Center for Consciousness Science, and PhD enrichment at the @Alan Turing Institute Focus on Altered States of Consciousness • NLP/LLMs • Complexity measures • Stroboscopic Light Stimulations Interest in clinical applications

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our MOSAIC paper is out in @nconsc! Turning first-person reports into interpretable phenomenological clusters using topic modelling and LLMs.

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed! I would love to hear thoughts on where MOSAIC could be applied next, and which aspects could be improved / added into the pipeline !

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

8/ Beyond this study, MOSAIC is a general-purpose tool that can be applied to a wide range of phenomenological states, and aimed to keep being developed in the future.

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

7/ Key experiential topics included: - Geometric and kaleidoscopic visuals - Cosmic & dream-like journeys - Meditative & peaceful states - Multisensory integration with music - Dissociation & out-of-body experiences

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

5/ Findings on SLS: - As expected, experiential topics revealed Strobe-induced simple visual hallucinations (geometric and colorful patterns) - More surprisingly, we also found complex hallucinations (scenes, objects, faces) and reports of altered states of consciousness (ASCs).

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

4/ This approach enabled structured analysis of phenomenological reports while reducing manual biases in labelling.

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

3/ Our goals were threefold: 1. Identify experiential topics in open-ended text-based reports of the Dreamachine (multi-sensorial) experience 2. Automatically generate meaningful labels using LLM 3. Provide a reusable computational framework for phenomenological research

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

2/ We applied MOSAIC to reports from participants in the Dreamachine (dreamachine.world), a collective experience using Stroboscopic Light Stimulations (SLS) and music

dreamachine.world

Dreamachine | A new, one-of-a-kind immersive experience

Dreamachine is an experience like no other. Join us on a magical journey through music and light to experience a colourful world unfolding behind your closed eyes, created by your own brain and comple...

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

1/ In this paper, we introduce MOSAIC, a generalisable NLP pipeline for analysing phenomenological reports. It will be fully available on my GitHub shortly! If you can’t wait to check on the code, please contact me (r.beaut@sussex.ac.uk)

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My first PhD paper is finally out as a preprint! Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2502.18318

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Mapping of Subjective Accounts into Interpreted Clusters (MOSAIC): Topic Modelling and LLM applied to Stroboscopic Phenomenology

Stroboscopic light stimulation (SLS) on closed eyes typically induces simple visual hallucinations (VHs), characterised by vivid, geometric and colourful patterns. A dataset of 862 sentences, extracte...

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Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thanks Johannes for this list ! Could you please add me ? Thanks ! :)

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