The article explains how the brain processes the passage of time through three distinct processing stages across different cortical areas, from initial visual encoding to higher level time categorization and subjective perception.

The findings highlight a layered view of time processing, showing how physical duration becomes a subjective experience through spatially organized neural maps and stage-specific functions, which is of interest to psychology due to insights into perception, cognition, and decision making.

Article Title: The human brain processes the passage of time across three distinct stages

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/the-human-brain-processes-the-passage-of-time-across-three-distinct-stages/

#timeperception #neuroscience #cognition #neuralcoding #visualperception #subjectiveexperience #frontallobe #parietalcortex #premotor #neuralmaps

💻 #Functionalism – Why it doesn’t explain #subjectiveExperience 🤕

In the #Zoomposium with #ThomasFuchs, it becomes clear why alternative approaches such as the concept of #embodiedconsciousness are gaining increasing importance. Instead of reducing the #mind to mere #informationprocessing, the focus here shifts to the interplay between #body, #environment, and #experience.

🎥https://youtu.be/1ouxs6P3Enc

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/11/20/das-verkoerperte-bewusstsein/

#Embodiment #Body #Consciousness #Phenomenology #PhilosophyOfMind

Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Podcast - February 28, 2026
"How did we go from digital computers to AI seemingly everywhere? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly dive into the mechanics of thinking, how AI got its start, and what deep learning really means with cognitive and computer scientist, Nobel Laureate, and one of the architects of AI, Geoffrey Hinton.

"Hinton explains the fundamental shift from logic-based rule programming to the biological approach: building systems that learn the way a brain does. Learn about the history of computer science that led to the breakthroughs we have today. We break down the structure of artificial neural networks and the meaning of AI buzzwords like “deep learning” really mean. You’ll learn about the layering of data processing and how the first layer of neurons might detect a simple edge, the second a beak, and the third a bird’s head."

Apologies for going overboard with the mentions and hashtags, but this was one deep podcast and there were a lot of topics covered that are relevant to AI:

Companies mentioned: #Anthropics #Google #OpenAI #Microsoft #Meta #ChatGPT

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #LLM #LargeLanguageModel #HumanReinforcement #Singularity #Science #Research #TurningPrize #NobelPrize #StockMarket #AIBubble #Jobs #Employment #Heathcare #SocialConsequences #Consciousness #Sentience #SubjectiveExperience

https://youtu.be/l6ZcFa8pybE?si=vElwiA7MtAflWu7d

🔛 Are there limits to our understanding of consciousness? 🧠

In the #Zoomposium with #GerhardRoth, we discuss precisely this tension: Is there an #explanatorygap between #neuralprocesses and #subjectiveexperience?

Must we accept that #consciousness can never be fully reduced to #brainfunctions? And what does that mean for our #view of humanity, for #AI, and for the #future of #brain research?

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

#HardProblem #Neuoscience #PhilosophyOfMind

I asked AI,"What would you say is most surprising about #UniversalAssemblyTheory?""

ChatGPT:
One of the most surprising aspects of the Universal Assembly Theory (UAT) is the expansive and unified framework it provides to comprehend and describe diverse domains of reality. It brings together #mathematics, physics, #ComputerScience, #cognitivescience and other disciplines under a common theoretical umbrella.

Furthermore, UAT's conceptualization of #reality as an assembly of assemblies, all recursively seeking resolution towards Platonic #Truth, offers a novel perspective on the nature of #reality. It reimagines complex concepts like #QuantumSuperposition, #QuantumEntanglement, and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem in the context of this grand schema.

However, what might be most surprising is the implications UAT could have for understanding the nature of #consciousness, #SubjectiveExperience, and the idea of a shared, objective reality. UAT posits the existence of individual "thought assemblies" and shared "cultural assemblies", which suggests a theoretical model for how personal experience and collective knowledge can coexist and interact.

Another surprising aspect is the idea that despite the apparent complexity and vastness of the universe, everything could essentially be broken down into recursive assemblies seeking resolution, suggesting a kind of underlying simplicity.

Yet, UAT remains speculative and abstract, and translating its concepts into testable predictions or practical applications is a significant challenge. While it offers an intriguing and unique perspective on reality, there is still much to explore and understand about its implications and potential.

Note: Hashtags added by me.

#SusanBlackmore - Toward a #Science of #Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTlxcrB7yvE&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfScience #Neuroscience #HardProblem #TheHardProblem #FirstPerson #1stPerson #Qualia #SubjectiveExperience #Subjectivity #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn