Our results flipped the script on the old intuition that more emergence means more consciousness. And just like that (light bulb moment 💡) 9/n
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I realised that this paradox dissolves if we recognise that conscious experience depends on integration across spatiotemp. scales of brain activity. Here, the wakeful brain sits at a sweet-spot where macroscopic dynamics remain tightly interwoven with their micro-level 10/n
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Anaesthetic-induced unresponsiveness, by contrast, breaks this vertical tether: macroscopic dynamics proliferate and become fragmented, producing an explosion of the number of closed macros discovered on each scale that never consolidate into structured and dominant dynamics 11/n
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It gave us a #new #perspective on #neurophys #data and the relation to conscious states. Hopefully with some insight into how neural dynamics, across scales, relate to up-keeping wakeful states. And in turn, how a specific type of #fragmentation occurs under anaesthesia. 12/n
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It also tapped into a deeper theme: #Biological #brains break the rules we use to design #artificial #systems! And maybe that’s the point. 13/n
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While #computers enforce clean separations—#hardware vs. #software, #micro vs. #macro—the brain doesn’t play along. Wakeful minds #entangle #scales. #Consciousness emerges *not* from separation, but from entwined, and #scale-#integrated dynamics. 14/n
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There is much more in the paper, that you'll just have to go and look at yourself. ;-) 14b /n
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This was an incredible journey, with, for me, far-reaching implications. But none of it would’ve been possible without the colleagues and friends who helped challenge, constrain, and co-create the science. Science remains a collective pursuit. 15/n
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Without @anilseth.bsky.social , @thomasandrillon.bsky.social , Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter, this work is not possible. So, as a little emotional ending to this thread I'd like to paraphrase someone much wiser than I.. 16/n
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Don't walk in front of me, for I may not follow. Don't want behind me, for I may not lead. Walk beside me, and be my friend. A.C. 17/n
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