Jakob Hohwy
@hohwy.bsky.social
philosopher: consciousness, rationality, self-evidencing, contemplation
https://www.monash.edu/m3cs
https://www.monash.edu/m3cs
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George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize
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for 2025 with this contribution:
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for 2025 with this contribution:
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November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize
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for 2025 with this contribution:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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for 2025 with this contribution:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Excited for the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP) 2025 Conference next week in Melbourne 24-25 Nov.
I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference.
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference.
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
ASPP 2025 Melbourne
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference
Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Excited for the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP) 2025 Conference next week in Melbourne 24-25 Nov.
I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference.
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference.
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25!
Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇
#philosophy #neuroskyence
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇
#philosophy #neuroskyence
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
ASPP 2025 Melbourne
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference
Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025
sites.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25!
Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇
#philosophy #neuroskyence
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇
#philosophy #neuroskyence
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
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@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
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The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review
As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr...
arxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
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If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
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1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
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October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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completely agree; indeed our recent paper on mind-wandering & mind-blanking confirms task-disengagement / internally-oriented cognition does not simply correspond to increased interoceptive processing
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October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
completely agree; indeed our recent paper on mind-wandering & mind-blanking confirms task-disengagement / internally-oriented cognition does not simply correspond to increased interoceptive processing
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I was once told: "never try EEG+fMRI!"
It was sound advice... but we did it anyway!
Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in #EEG to patterns of hyperconnectivity in #fMRI.
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It was sound advice... but we did it anyway!
Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in #EEG to patterns of hyperconnectivity in #fMRI.
🧠🧪💤
🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...
Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences
Mind blanking (MB) is a mental state of seemingly no reportable thought content. The question of how we can entertain no thoughts while awake is challenging for the study of spontaneous thinking. By c...
www.biorxiv.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to announce that My Three Circles is now available for download on Apple!
Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises
apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises
apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
October 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Absolutely thrilled to announce that My Three Circles is now available for download on Apple!
Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises
apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises
apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
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It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!
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Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction
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September 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with @niccolonegro.bsky.social. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!
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My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University
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September 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29770
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New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in @pnas.org - led by @frosas.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/ @andrealuppi.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, me, & Dan Bor. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition
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September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in @pnas.org - led by @frosas.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/ @andrealuppi.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, me, & Dan Bor. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
ASPP 2025 Melbourne
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference
Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025
sites.google.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract
Come join this exciting community of researchers
Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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New paper with @ManuKirberg 💭
Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis
Until recently, mental imagery has largely been regarded as an exclusively conscious phenomenon. However, recent empirical results suggest that mental…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
New paper with @ManuKirberg 💭
Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews
Looking back on our life and work, we reflect on the changes in our thinking due to three scientific and technological revolutions. These are information processing, computers, and brain imaging, and ...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness
Building blocks for theories of consciousness
Consciousness science is brimming with theories attempting to explain what consciousness is and how it can be identified in natural and artificial sys…
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August 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PhilMind #PhilConsc #Consciousness
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I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.
🚨 New article in #NCONSC!
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
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A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel
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August 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.
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Great to work with @franciscorr25.bsky.social and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness
www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...
www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...
Babies, bees, and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness
To truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Great to work with @franciscorr25.bsky.social and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness
www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...
www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...
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🚨 New article in #NCONSC!
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel
academic.oup.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚨 New article in #NCONSC!
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
@antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
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When you mind goes blank! 🧠🧪
Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science!
With the fantastic @ademertzi.bsky.social!
www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science!
With the fantastic @ademertzi.bsky.social!
www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
Why does your mind goes 'blank'? New brain scans reveal the surprising answer
Neuroscientists think moments of "mind blanking" could be a way for the brain to protect itself.
www.livescience.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
When you mind goes blank! 🧠🧪
Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science!
With the fantastic @ademertzi.bsky.social!
www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science!
With the fantastic @ademertzi.bsky.social!
www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
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Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself?
We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself?
We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On the Explanation of Intentionality
It is a widespread assumption in contemporary philosophy of mind that a naturalistic explanation of intentionality must answer to what I will call the ‘question of aboutness’: what makes it the cas...
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July 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....