Nicholas J. Matiasz
@matiasz.com
▐ Scientific Program Director
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Nicholas J. Matiasz
@matiasz.com
· Oct 29
Prof. Piet Hut on Science, Consciousness, and True Objectivity | Fathom the Mind Ep. 001
YouTube video by Center for Contemplative Research
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On the first episode of Fathom the Mind, a new podcast produced by @the-ccr.bsky.social, Prof. Piet Hut discusses his new research program to bridge matter and mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOD...
#consci #contemplativesci
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#consci #contemplativesci
What is the objective world? Prof. Piet Hut on the history of material science.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZC...
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What is the objective world? Prof. Piet Hut on the history of material science
YouTube video by Center for Contemplative Research
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October 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What is the objective world? Prof. Piet Hut on the history of material science.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZC...
On the first episode of Fathom the Mind, a new podcast produced by @the-ccr.bsky.social, Prof. Piet Hut discusses his new research program to bridge matter and mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOD...
#consci #contemplativesci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOD...
#consci #contemplativesci
Prof. Piet Hut on Science, Consciousness, and True Objectivity | Fathom the Mind Ep. 001
YouTube video by Center for Contemplative Research
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
On the first episode of Fathom the Mind, a new podcast produced by @the-ccr.bsky.social, Prof. Piet Hut discusses his new research program to bridge matter and mind.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOD...
#consci #contemplativesci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOD...
#consci #contemplativesci
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Episode 2 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGa...
The Blind Spot Podcast - Episode 2, What Is Time? Part I
YouTube video by The Blind Spot Podcast
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May 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Episode 2 of our new podcast The Blind Spot with @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XGa...
This online series of talks regarding contemplative science begins in two days.
I‘ll be giving a talk titled “What is contemplative science?” on February 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. PST, as part of the online series The Dawn of Contemplative Science, hosted by Les Cèdres Bleus.
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
Contemplative Science-EN
mailchi.mp
February 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This online series of talks regarding contemplative science begins in two days.
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
If you're interested in #meditation #yoga #breathwork #psychedelics or other #mindbody research, this is your conference! Stay tuned for more info. #contemplativeresearch #contemplativescience #contemplativeneuroscience
The 2025 International Society for Contemplative Research meeting will be held November 3 - 6 in Chapel Hill, NC. Abstract portal opens March 10. More details to come. iscrsociety.org/2025-confere...
2025 Conference - iscrsociety.org
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February 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you're interested in #meditation #yoga #breathwork #psychedelics or other #mindbody research, this is your conference! Stay tuned for more info. #contemplativeresearch #contemplativescience #contemplativeneuroscience
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reminder that you can attend this great symposium on zoom! talks from heavy hitters, just a stellar lineup. grateful to be included. tomorrow & friday, Jan 16-17, pacific time. #neuroskyence #psychscisci #consciousness #neuroscience #philosophy #theory #psychology
www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...
www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...
"Theorizing and Modeling in Neuroscience" Conference | Chapman University
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Webpage for information on the
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January 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
reminder that you can attend this great symposium on zoom! talks from heavy hitters, just a stellar lineup. grateful to be included. tomorrow & friday, Jan 16-17, pacific time. #neuroskyence #psychscisci #consciousness #neuroscience #philosophy #theory #psychology
www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...
www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...
I‘ll be giving a talk titled “What is contemplative science?” on February 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. PST, as part of the online series The Dawn of Contemplative Science, hosted by Les Cèdres Bleus.
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
Contemplative Science-EN
mailchi.mp
January 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I‘ll be giving a talk titled “What is contemplative science?” on February 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. PST, as part of the online series The Dawn of Contemplative Science, hosted by Les Cèdres Bleus.
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
Speaker list and registration: mailchi.mp/217ea31ae020...
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
I'm grateful to have won the Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind! And it's for "A Theory of Sense-Data," where I defend one of the most unpopular, ill-reputed, and disparaged views in all of philosophy. philpapers.org/rec/LEEATO-3
Andrew Y. Lee, A Theory of Sense-Data - PhilPapers
philpapers.org
December 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I'm grateful to have won the Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Mind! And it's for "A Theory of Sense-Data," where I defend one of the most unpopular, ill-reputed, and disparaged views in all of philosophy. philpapers.org/rec/LEEATO-3
December 23, 2024 at 2:51 AM
For anyone interested in the mind, I strongly recommend Prof. Piet Hut’s new blog “FEST” (= Fully Engaged Science and Technology — or, alternatively, Fully Empirical Science and Technology).
piethut.substack.com
piethut.substack.com
October 5, 2024 at 3:43 AM
For anyone interested in the mind, I strongly recommend Prof. Piet Hut’s new blog “FEST” (= Fully Engaged Science and Technology — or, alternatively, Fully Empirical Science and Technology).
piethut.substack.com
piethut.substack.com
“The crucial point here is that we do not have empirical access to any form of matter, where empirical is defined as given in experience”
—Piet Hut
piethut.substack.com/p/empirical-...
—Piet Hut
piethut.substack.com/p/empirical-...
Empirical Studies of the Mind
Entry #016
piethut.substack.com
October 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
“The crucial point here is that we do not have empirical access to any form of matter, where empirical is defined as given in experience”
—Piet Hut
piethut.substack.com/p/empirical-...
—Piet Hut
piethut.substack.com/p/empirical-...
In a new chapter published by Routledge, B. Alan Wallace and I discuss how professional contemplatives can work with neuroscientists, psychologists, and even physicists—not just as study participants, but as true colleagues who help frame the research.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#consci
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#consci
Contemplative Science | 9 | Expanding the Scope of Empiricism to Incre
Science would benefit tremendously from a theory of consciousness and other mental phenomena that can be unified with contemporary theories of physics and the
www.taylorfrancis.com
September 24, 2024 at 12:03 AM
In a new chapter published by Routledge, B. Alan Wallace and I discuss how professional contemplatives can work with neuroscientists, psychologists, and even physicists—not just as study participants, but as true colleagues who help frame the research.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#consci
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
#consci
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
"Nobody pulls out a clock to know what time is, only what time it is." Robert Crease's perfect summary of our analysis of time (including the Bergson vs Einstein debate) in The Blind Spot. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
What Scientists Can’t See: On Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Robert P. Crease reviews Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson’s “The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.”...
lareviewofbooks.org
April 21, 2024 at 5:55 PM
"Nobody pulls out a clock to know what time is, only what time it is." Robert Crease's perfect summary of our analysis of time (including the Bergson vs Einstein debate) in The Blind Spot. lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
A short excerpt from The Blind Spot in Big Think. bigthink.com/13-8/why-sci...
The "blind spot" in science that's fueling a crisis of meaning
At the heart of many scientific challenges lies a lack of understanding of the human observer and their lived experiences.
bigthink.com
March 8, 2024 at 12:05 AM
A short excerpt from The Blind Spot in Big Think. bigthink.com/13-8/why-sci...
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
Now out in Nature: Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri.bsky.social and edited by the supremely talented Mary Elizabeth Sutherland
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature
The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actually do.
www.nature.com
March 7, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Now out in Nature: Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri.bsky.social and edited by the supremely talented Mary Elizabeth Sutherland
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Not only does this imply that we have to take consistency of mathematics, as we understand it today, on faith. It also suggests that there’s actually no objective criterion as to which axioms we should choose for doing mathematics.”
iai.tv/articles/mat...
iai.tv/articles/mat...
March 5, 2024 at 4:22 AM
“Not only does this imply that we have to take consistency of mathematics, as we understand it today, on faith. It also suggests that there’s actually no objective criterion as to which axioms we should choose for doing mathematics.”
iai.tv/articles/mat...
iai.tv/articles/mat...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwC...
“…avoid the thought that a new metaphysical understanding would invalidate any of science. It may invalidate some assumptions you made about how those scientific observations come to be. But the observations reflect true regularities…” —Bernardo Kastrup
“…avoid the thought that a new metaphysical understanding would invalidate any of science. It may invalidate some assumptions you made about how those scientific observations come to be. But the observations reflect true regularities…” —Bernardo Kastrup
March 5, 2024 at 3:10 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwC...
“…avoid the thought that a new metaphysical understanding would invalidate any of science. It may invalidate some assumptions you made about how those scientific observations come to be. But the observations reflect true regularities…” —Bernardo Kastrup
“…avoid the thought that a new metaphysical understanding would invalidate any of science. It may invalidate some assumptions you made about how those scientific observations come to be. But the observations reflect true regularities…” —Bernardo Kastrup
Open-access book on the phenomenology of pure consciousness:
The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Expe...
An engaging and insightful journey into human consciousness.What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure con
direct.mit.edu
February 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Open-access book on the phenomenology of pure consciousness:
“Considerable non-replication is thus to be expected even with the best reporting practices, and generalizations from single studies are rarely if ever warranted. … And that means we should treat statistical results as being much more incomplete and uncertain than is currently the norm.”
Inferential statistics are descriptive statistics
The SONAR project aims to create a scholarly archive that collects, promotes and preserves the publications of authors affiliated with Swiss public research institutions.
sonar.ch
January 20, 2024 at 5:14 PM
“Considerable non-replication is thus to be expected even with the best reporting practices, and generalizations from single studies are rarely if ever warranted. … And that means we should treat statistical results as being much more incomplete and uncertain than is currently the norm.”
“Thus, a clear-cut distinction between subjective and objective measurements is neither advantageous nor useful, provided that the correct methodology is applied to rule out possible biases and other phenomena.”
—Fabrizio Benedetti
Placebo Effects, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2014.
#consci
—Fabrizio Benedetti
Placebo Effects, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2014.
#consci
January 10, 2024 at 2:06 PM
“Thus, a clear-cut distinction between subjective and objective measurements is neither advantageous nor useful, provided that the correct methodology is applied to rule out possible biases and other phenomena.”
—Fabrizio Benedetti
Placebo Effects, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2014.
#consci
—Fabrizio Benedetti
Placebo Effects, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2014.
#consci
“In this view, reality is not a pre-written script but a participatory drama, with each observer playing a crucial role in shaping their experience. As Fuchs put it in a lecture earlier this year, in QBism, ‘when I take an action on the world, something genuinely new comes out.’”
#consciousness
#consciousness
Christopher Fuchs is revolutionizing how we understand our quantum reality
The physicist and co-founder of the QBism theory is shaking up his field.
www.vox.com
January 10, 2024 at 2:01 PM
“In this view, reality is not a pre-written script but a participatory drama, with each observer playing a crucial role in shaping their experience. As Fuchs put it in a lecture earlier this year, in QBism, ‘when I take an action on the world, something genuinely new comes out.’”
#consciousness
#consciousness
“Even within the subfield of neuroscience where talk of consciousness is accepted, the number of scientists actually working with an open mind on new scientific theories of consciousness is extremely small.”
#consciousness
#consciousness
Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why
Nothing in the brain makes sense except in the light of consciousness
www.theintrinsicperspective.com
January 10, 2024 at 1:58 PM
“Even within the subfield of neuroscience where talk of consciousness is accepted, the number of scientists actually working with an open mind on new scientific theories of consciousness is extremely small.”
#consciousness
#consciousness
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
MIT Press now has all the blurbs up for our book The Blind Spot!
December 4, 2023 at 9:31 PM
MIT Press now has all the blurbs up for our book The Blind Spot!
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
Are you feeling sick?
NIBIB says it has expanded its free "Home Test to Treat program" beyond just COVID-19
Adults will now be able to get Pfizer's Lucira molecular home tests, which were authorized by FDA earlier this year for both COVID-19 and influenza
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
NIBIB says it has expanded its free "Home Test to Treat program" beyond just COVID-19
Adults will now be able to get Pfizer's Lucira molecular home tests, which were authorized by FDA earlier this year for both COVID-19 and influenza
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
December 6, 2023 at 4:45 PM
Are you feeling sick?
NIBIB says it has expanded its free "Home Test to Treat program" beyond just COVID-19
Adults will now be able to get Pfizer's Lucira molecular home tests, which were authorized by FDA earlier this year for both COVID-19 and influenza
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
NIBIB says it has expanded its free "Home Test to Treat program" beyond just COVID-19
Adults will now be able to get Pfizer's Lucira molecular home tests, which were authorized by FDA earlier this year for both COVID-19 and influenza
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Reposted by Nicholas J. Matiasz
(2/2) Some researchers argue that we can’t know what people subjectively experience. All we know is what people *think* they experience. This drives skepticism towards consciousness research. I show that these worries are unwarranted. We can objectively know what people see.
November 23, 2023 at 5:19 PM
(2/2) Some researchers argue that we can’t know what people subjectively experience. All we know is what people *think* they experience. This drives skepticism towards consciousness research. I show that these worries are unwarranted. We can objectively know what people see.