dlevenstein.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, in theory. Studying sleep and navigation in 🧠s and 💻s. Wu Tsai Investigator, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Yale. An emergent property of a few billion neurons, their interactions with each other and the world over ~1 century.
👤 Joined on 01 May 2023
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@dlevenstein.bsky.socialjust found out people are saying that humans are conscious but they're literally made out of meat??? the same stuff that is in Vienna sausages???
Show Postinterpreting "area rug" like the Onion's area man
Show Postone thing i've noticed largely glossed over in the 'ANNs do a lot of smart stuff like brains!' discourse is that most of the smart stuff brains do is unconscious
Show Postsimilarly when people go 'computational functionalism->LLMs are conscious', most computational systems are not conscious
Show PostIf you are going to the SfN meeting in DC and are interested in social neuroscience, please join us for *Social Neuroscience Social* (11/16/2026). @s4sn.bsky.social Hosted by the four of us: @stevewcchang.bsky.social, @honglab.bsky.social, Ziv Williams, @drnancypadilla.bsky.social
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