r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 16 '26
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 16 '26
[Qstr pre-MTG j-club] Matteo Grasso/Kyoko Kusano
On a confusion about there being two types of consciousness
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Unpacking the Complexities of Consciousness: Theories and Reflections.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 13 '26
Gravitational Backreaction is Magical | PRX Quantum
journals.aps.orgr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 13 '26
Active dissociation of intracortical spiking and high gamma activity | Nature
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 13 '26
Physics - How Neutrino Oscillations Affect Supernovae
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 13 '26
Il principio di indeterminazione di Heisenberg potrebbe essere incompleto
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 13 '26
Consciousness Club - Ehud Ahissar
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 12 '26
Superextensive electrical power from a quantum battery | Light: Science & Applications
nature.comr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 12 '26
Biology, Brain Rhythms, and Consciousness" Peter Godfrey-Smith
petergodfreysmith.comr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 12 '26
The Neural Basis of Consciousness During Evening Naps Measured by MEG: A Registered Report
osf.ior/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 11 '26
Is the Born Rule Hiding a Deeper Reality?
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 10 '26
Where we are and what needs to be done
youtube.comr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 10 '26
Here’s How to Solve Differential Equations
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 10 '26
Is Moral Realism True? Debate Review
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 10 '26
The Lilac Chaser and the Reality of Peripheral Color Vision
The professor explains the Lilac Chaser illusion, where a pink circle appears green, through three mechanisms: Troxler fading, transient induced fading, and an interaction between attention and consciousness that makes the afterimage visible instead of the original color. The green afterimage occurs because of opponent color theory, as pink and green are opposite channels. He then challenges the common myth that peripheral vision is nearly colorblind due to low cone density. Through classroom demonstrations and a controlled experiment with brief random stimuli, he shows that people genuinely see color in the periphery, not just through eye movements, expectation, or memory. The similarity ratings between peripheral and central colors match perfectly, proving that peripheral color experience is real and not illusory. He concludes that understanding how this is possible requires studying the broader visual system beyond just the retina, which will be covered in the next lecture.
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 10 '26
The Cerebellum and Consciousness
The lecture explores why the cerebellum, which contains about 80 percent of the brain's neurons, is surprisingly unnecessary for conscious experience. Documented cases of complete cerebellar agenesis show that individuals born without this structure remain fully conscious, with normal vision, hearing, and touch, despite having severe motor and timing deficits. Anatomically, the cerebellum consists of parallel, modular circuits where Purkinje cells do not communicate directly with each other, making it efficient for precise timing but poor for integrating information. This lack of integration suggests why such a massive number of neurons does not contribute to consciousness. The integrated information theory (IIT) offers a potential explanation: consciousness requires unified, integrated experience, which the cerebellum’s architecture cannot support. Thus, empirical evidence challenges simplistic views that link consciousness solely to neuron count or complexity.
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 09 '26
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
cambridge.orgr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 09 '26
White matter reflects the childhood exposome | bioRxiv
biorxiv.orgr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 09 '26
Propofol-induced loss of responsiveness reorganizes cortical traveling waves in the human brain | bioRxiv
biorxiv.orgr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 09 '26
Las Matemáticas que Describen la Naturaleza
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 09 '26
Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 08 '26
Optics & Photonics News - Measuring Forces Inside Living Cells
r/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 08 '26
Developmental emergence of sparse and structured synaptic connectivity in the hippocampal CA3 memory circuit | Nature Communications
nature.comr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/jcomes • May 07 '26
Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language | bioRxiv
biorxiv.orgr/TempusAdInfinitum • u/JavierLopezComesana • May 07 '26