Dezhi Luo
@carrot0817.bsky.social
cogsci, biopsych & ling major @UMich. prev. @UCL @Edin. interested in consciousness, the self, emotion, language, philosophy & theories of AI
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Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
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November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
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📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
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Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
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Excited to share my essay with @carrot0817.bsky.social, Kaia Gao on the representational substrate of world-reasoning in both humans and machines has been accepted to the SpaVLE Workshop at #NeurIPS2025✨
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November 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Excited to share my essay with @carrot0817.bsky.social, Kaia Gao on the representational substrate of world-reasoning in both humans and machines has been accepted to the SpaVLE Workshop at #NeurIPS2025✨
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I’m not saying we should ignore the biological details. I think the details matter a lot for implementing the right functions. But if you think biology matters beyond that, just give me a *biological* property that reliably distinguishes conscious from unconscious states.
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I’m not saying we should ignore the biological details. I think the details matter a lot for implementing the right functions. But if you think biology matters beyond that, just give me a *biological* property that reliably distinguishes conscious from unconscious states.
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"Intuitions of mathematical curves in young children's drawings"
In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Intuitions of mathematical curves in young children's drawings"
In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.
Matthias Michel, Bet on functionalism - PhilPapers
I argue that there is currently no alternative to functionalism. Functionalism explains the differences between types of mental states. No biological theory does. Functionalist theories account for th...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.
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After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
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July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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A ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲
Distinct neural representations of perceptual and numerical absence in the human brain: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zyrdk_v1
July 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲
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#CoreCognition #LLM #multimodal #GrowAI We spent 3 years to curate 1503 classic experiments spanning 12 core concepts in human cognitive development and evaluated on 230 MLLMs with 11 different prompts for 5 times to get over 3.8 millions inference data points.
A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅
A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅
June 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
#CoreCognition #LLM #multimodal #GrowAI We spent 3 years to curate 1503 classic experiments spanning 12 core concepts in human cognitive development and evaluated on 230 MLLMs with 11 different prompts for 5 times to get over 3.8 millions inference data points.
A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅
A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅
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A non-value-based system in the brain automates decision-making and frees up cognitive resources for other tasks, a new study in mice suggests.
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...
Dopamine neurons signal default behavior to reinforce habits
Movement-sensing neurons in the striatum influence a mouse’s choice of action by favoring routine behaviors.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A non-value-based system in the brain automates decision-making and frees up cognitive resources for other tasks, a new study in mice suggests.
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...
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super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reasoning Goals and Representational Decisions in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience: Lessons From the Drift Diffusion Model
The appropriate form of the drift diffusion model depends on how one wishes to reason about their target with the model. If the goal is to parsimoniously explain the speed-accuracy tradeoff, the appr...
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May 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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May 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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It's @vssmtg.bsky.social! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues.
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
It's @vssmtg.bsky.social! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues.
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
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a possibility is *very* different from scientific evidence. the claim to having scientific evidence means the burden of proof is on the claimer to eliminate alternative explanations
sure, if u breach that common standard in science u can raise possibilities for all sorts of stuff out of data
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sure, if u breach that common standard in science u can raise possibilities for all sorts of stuff out of data
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so i do doubt the conclusions of the Neider et al study. but even they did not make such strong claims as having shown *phenomenal* consciousness. in fact, unlike your Declaration, they were far more careful about this -
May 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
a possibility is *very* different from scientific evidence. the claim to having scientific evidence means the burden of proof is on the claimer to eliminate alternative explanations
sure, if u breach that common standard in science u can raise possibilities for all sorts of stuff out of data
cf -
sure, if u breach that common standard in science u can raise possibilities for all sorts of stuff out of data
cf -
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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
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Vision-Language Models are not yet pragmatically optimal.
We identify 3 key failures of pragmatic competence in referring expression generation with VLMs: (1) cannot uniquely refer to the referent, (2) include excessive or irrelevant information, and (3) misalign with human pragmatic preferences.
We identify 3 key failures of pragmatic competence in referring expression generation with VLMs: (1) cannot uniquely refer to the referent, (2) include excessive or irrelevant information, and (3) misalign with human pragmatic preferences.
April 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Vision-Language Models are not yet pragmatically optimal.
We identify 3 key failures of pragmatic competence in referring expression generation with VLMs: (1) cannot uniquely refer to the referent, (2) include excessive or irrelevant information, and (3) misalign with human pragmatic preferences.
We identify 3 key failures of pragmatic competence in referring expression generation with VLMs: (1) cannot uniquely refer to the referent, (2) include excessive or irrelevant information, and (3) misalign with human pragmatic preferences.