Ponscient — Bridge of Consciousness @Ponscient

10/ And the poster itself: The Fiber Bundle Theory of Consciousness (FBTC), P55. A falsifiable geometric framework linking neural dynamics to the structure of experience, tested through four signatures: binding, path dependence, coupling and report. Seeking collaborators.

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9/ Thank you @moc7conference, the organisers, and everyone who stopped by poster P55 to argue with us. The group roadmaps now feed into a collective paper. 🌉 #MoC7 #ConsciousnessScience

#MoC7 in Copenhagen is over. Our takeaway: consciousness science has started mapping itself. Not just experience, but its own concepts, theories, methods, indicators and predictions, and how they connect. A thread 🧵 #ConsciousnessScience

From 11 to 15 October we're streaming six seminars live from #MoC7 on YouTube with projet y! We'll host sessions with @blum_lenore, @JohannesKleiner, @Cam_Signorelli, Evan Thompson, Dan Zahavi, Paul Skokowski, @introspection, and Nina Rajcic. Full schedule below: #consciousness

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Qualia Research Institute @QualiaRI

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What did you do to study qualia this summer? Here's what we were up to: heart.qri.org/#tepoz-2026

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@Chunjing_13 @moc7conference Friends working on the structure of experience - @NaoTsuchiya @JohannesKleiner @chris_percy - we'd especially welcome your critique at P55.

Ponscient proudly presents: Fiber Bundle Theory of Consciousness (FBTC). Our founder, Chunjing Yu @Chunjing_13, will introduce the framework at Models of Consciousness 7 (MoC7) @moc7conference in Copenhagen on October 15. FBTC is a falsifiable geometric framework connecting neural dynamics with the structure of phenomenal experience. Its core claim: consciousness-related activity is more than its values at an instant. Over a coarse-grained neural state space, FBTC distinguishes gating, content, and experience-related structure, with first-person data entering as an independent constraint. It makes three problems measurable: binding as local-to-global sheaf consistency, path dependence as directed closed-loop transport (holonomy), and report as a multi-stage channel whose information loss is measured against a first-person reference. FBTC competes head-to-head with IIT, global workspace theory, and predictive processing on the same data, and stakes itself on three core tests: cross-dataset content–experience alignment, out-of-sample sheaf binding, and controlled closed-loop experiments against hysteresis and recurrent-network baselines. The aim: to move consciousness science from arguing over definitions to competing on data. 📍 University of Copenhagen · HCØ, main corridor 🗓 15 October 2026 · 15:00 - 16:30 CEST 🔎 Poster P55 · Chunjing Yu · Ponscient 🌉 If you’ll be at MoC7 or in Copenhagen, we’d love to meet you and exchange ideas while we’re in town. Please come find us at Poster P55, leave a reply here, or email us at [email protected] to arrange a meeting. We welcome questions, objections, and conversations that bring mathematical frameworks into dialogue with lived experience. We are truly grateful to the #MoC7 organisers and @uni_copenhagen, including @Cam_Signorelli and @Robert_Prentner, for bringing the field together. Conference Schedule: amcs-community.org/moc7-schedule-… #MoC7 #Consciousness #MathematicalConsciousness #Neuroscience #Phenomenology #ConsciousnessScience

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@jeffrsebo Excellent work! Actually Ali Ladak just gave us a public talk in Shanghai！

Rose Is Red Is Red - Or Is It? On Sep 14, Ponscient was graced by the presence of Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya - for over 20 years a pioneer in qualia structure research - and ten fellow scholars at an international roundtable and a public lecture in Shanghai, China. Each speaker approached inner experience and the problem of other minds along a distinct path, traversing neuroscience, clinical assessment, philosophy, mathematics, and the study of machine minds. Warmest thanks to Swarma Club and Jinze Arts and Crafts Society for joining efforts with us in realizing this autumnal symposium, where we drank from both the intimate and the expansive. 1. How might subjective experience be measured and compared? 👁️ [ Naotsugu Tsuchiya @NaoTsuchiya | Monash University / Leader of Qualia Structure Project @conscious_tlab ] maps color experience across different subjects with “inverted qualia” as his thread and unsupervised structural alignment as his instrument. 📐 [ Robert Prentner @Robert_Prentner | ShanghaiTech University ] also examines topological structures of consciousness through mathematized phenomenology and category theory. 🌀 [ Jiang Zhang | Beijing Normal University / Founder of Swarma Club ] takes the vantage point of causal emergence to ask when a system’s intrinsic causal structure would overlap with or deviate from the structure of experience. 🌉 [ Chunjing Yu | Founder of Ponscient ] moderated the roundtable and presented the “Consciousness Fiber Bundle,” a theoretical architecture conceived to bridge neural geometry and phenomenal experience. 2. When report is unavailable, how do we recognize consciousness? 🐒 [ Vishal Kapoor @vishneuro | Logothetis Laboratory, International Center for Primate Brain Research (ICPBR) ] challenged the view that the contribution of the prefrontal cortex diminishes sharply once report is stripped away. In no-report binocular rivalry of macaques, he showed how prefrontal activity continues to encode conscious contents and track spontaneous perceptual switches. 🫀 [ Henry C. Evrard @henry_c_evrard | Logothetis Laboratory, ICPBR ] discussed how subjective feelings moulded by physiological signals - ceaseless and consequential, yet seldom reported explicitly - are reflected in the fine-grained landscapes of the primate insular cortex. In a turn toward our fellow human beings, 🧠 [ Xing Tian | NYU Shanghai ] drew on MEG, neuroimaging, and intracranial EEG to investigate mental imagery as external stimulation fades away, as well as the measurable neural traces that remain under anesthesia, when report itself is out of reach. 🏥 [ Xuehai Wu | Huashan Hospital, Fudan University ] brought ethical weight and urgency into the conversation as his spotlight shone on covert consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness and its detection with high-density EEG. 3. Down the rabbit hole unto machine minds ⚖️ [ Haoying Liu | Fudan University ] deliberated over the philosophical grounds on which no-report paradigms may correspond to AI consciousness criteria. 🤖 [ Dorian Liu @LiuZT612 | University of Edinburgh ] likewise sketched a methodology for confronting the uncertainty of machine consciousness with rigor and foresight. 🌐 [ Ali Ladak | Cambridge Digital Minds ] mined a latest survey of how the Chinese and American public perceive the issue of AI consciousness to introduce the moral psychology of digital minds, charming us into profound themes of mind perception, moral patiency, and the moral status of nonhuman minds. From relational structures of experience across subjects, through dynamical structures of the individual nervous system, to human society’s discernment of the nature of other minds - Ponscient aired its first fluting chord in this international gathering at the frontiers of interdisciplinary research. Amid the questions of consciousness, the most wondrous of our age, we seek not facile shortcuts but dialogical reflections inspired by manifold points of entry, languages, and methods. How many ways are there of looking at a red rose? - that which, by any other name, would smell as sweet? We send our deepest gratitude to every speaker and participant. Onward we sail, into the myriad forms ever becoming, ever anew. 🌊 #Ponscient #Consciousness #ConsciousnessScience #Neuroscience #qualia #AIConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #MachineConsciousness

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格物有尽，心识无岸。 飞桥之艺，谁人笑问？ 🌉意识之桥（Ponscient）是2026年从中文世界首先生长出的一个让科学、哲学与艺术对意识的探索通过学术研究与公共参与彼此连接的跨学科共同体。 自今年四月在中国杭州2050大会上以“从人类意识到AI意识”为题完成首次召集以来，我们持续以学术雷达与结构性内容传播、读书会研讨、跨界对话与合作、公众科普等方式彼此照见与激发，与会发言并独家直播了五月在中国广州举办的珠江神经医学大会意识科学与意识障碍高端论坛，并且马上要迎来与集智俱乐部、金泽工艺社在上海联合主办的关于感质结构、报告与测量问题的国际圆桌与公众讲座活动。 🔭我们聚焦的工作沿六条主轴展开： 🏥• 临床意识障碍：DoC、隐蔽意识、脑机接口、促醒与长期照护 🧠• 神经科学与意识理论：NCC、IIT、GNWT、丘脑－皮层机制、麻醉与睡眠 📐• 意识数学建模与复杂系统：神经流形、信息几何、拓扑数据分析、临界性与动力系统 🤖• AI／机器意识与治理：digital minds、AI welfare、评估框架与治理阈值 💭• 心灵哲学与现象学：hard problem、感质、他心问题、主体性与道德地位 🎨• 艺术与公共传播：论文解释、知识地图、艺术展演、跨界对话与公众教育 🌌意识之桥怀志于谐和体验与实证、主体与整体、智识与创生。我们愿在无垠心识之海上，构筑一个真正严肃而开放、沟通不同学科与文明所持问题与语言、朝向共享未来持续生长、活跃讨论并协作的公共现场；同时誓以哪怕缓慢但坚实的工作，追踪证据、容许不确定性、建立可集体核查的知识基础，更诚实地与未知共舞。 ✨碧霄藏无尽，飞虹信可渡。如果你来自神经科学、临床医学、认知科学、数学、物理、AI、哲学、人文、艺术或其他领域，正在研究、照护、设计、创作，或只是长期被“意识”这个关键问题真正吸引，欢迎关注、联系、加入我们，来到桥上。🌊 #意识 #意识科学 #脑科学 #AI意识 #感质

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