Wrote up my initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 - it has a big model smell: slow, expensive and capable of crunching through pretty much everything I threw at it simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/c...
We are thrilled to welcome Harald Atmanspacher as a keynote speaker for #MoC7
Harald is a theoretical physicist with over 30 years of experience in interdisciplinary research. He is co-founder of the Mind-Matter Society, which will be presenting this year's Mind-Matter Prize!
It's our pleasure to have @evanthompson.bsky.social as a keynote speaker for #MoC7 at the University of Copenhagen!
Evan is a renowned philosopher and phenomenologist and his talk will explore the intersections of philosophy and neuroscience, promising to inspire crucial methodological discussions.
Simon Willison
You can still submit an abstract for Models of Consciousness 7 #MoC7 (12-16 October 2026) 👇
Aizawa: Evidence for Representation
The Evidence for Representations Ken Aizawa It is commonly said that one reason to postulate mental representations is in order to explain behavior. I take this reasoning to be an instance of abductive reasoning, not to be identified with inference to the best…
Meet the Program Committee behind this year's Models of Consciousness conference: @joannaszczotka.bsky.social , @ksks.bsky.social , & Robert Prentner!
Their expert curation bridges mathematics, neuroscience, & philosophy to advance rigorous consciousness science at hashtag #MoC7
Corey Maley: Structural and Analog Representation
Corey J. Maley Department of Philosophy Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center Purdue University [email protected] coreymaley.net The thesis of this paper is simple: structural representation and analog representation turn out to be two names…
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
