Jun 12
We've been asking: who's researching consciousness?
Meet one of our collaborators: Entangled (entangled.org)!
The premise: what if your subconscious already knows the future, and we could build technology to listen to it?
Founded by Adam Curry (@adamslab), who grew up at Princeton's PEAR lab. Lead scientist Damon Abraham, PhD brings the experimental rigor. Julia Mossbridge, PhD and Dean Radin, PhD (@deanradin) form the scientific backbone, with research spanning 26 experiments across 7 labs showing human physiology anticipates events before they happen, and two decades of evidence that human intention shifts quantum systems.
The app connects your subconscious to real quantum hardware. No effort required on your part.
Applications: earthquake prediction, market signals, and the kinds of big questions that keep showing up in serious industry conversations.
Frontier science, backed by meta-analyses serious researchers respect.
Join us for our monthly First Person Science sessions to meet collaborators like this one: youtube.com/@CUSAC-ORG
cusac.org
#consciousness #ConsciousnessResearch #QuantumPhysics #QuantumEntanglement #qualia #RNGs #meta #FrontierScience
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How do we fund and publish research that doesn't fit neatly into a single discipline?
Last week, at the #EMBORulesOfTheGame, #HFSP Chief Scientific Officer Guntram Bauer presented how HFSP supports #frontierscience across disciplines and borders.
@embo.org
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Jun 8
Traditional consciousness research has a data problem — studies are small, slow, and hard to replicate.
Our team at CUSAC found an unexpected solution: Roblox!
By partnering with a game that has 1.5 million monthly players and replacing its reward system with a true quantum random number generator, we've collected 110,000 player trials in just two weeks — testing whether human intention can nudge quantum outcomes toward meaningful results.
Early results are intriguing. 600,000 more trials are on the way. Science at a scale that's never really been tried before. @DeanRadin's excited about it....
David's wonderful Substack about this: substack.com/home/post/p-197…
Whoever thought video games could be good for you? ;)
#consciousness #research #videogames #quanta #qualia #quantum #QuantumPhysics #neuroscience #FrontierScience #FirstPersonScience @michaelgarfield @Rizstanford
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Today, we’re excited to introduce Apodex 1.0. 🚀
We believe the future of AI research isn’t about generating more answers—it’s about generating better understanding.
Apodex is built for long-horizon research: planning investigations, gathering evidence, using tools, testing hypotheses, and synthesizing grounded conclusions.
The name Apodex comes from the Greek word apodeixis (ἀπόδειξις), meaning demonstration or proof. We chose it because knowledge becomes valuable only when it can be shown, supported, and understood—not merely asserted.
This release includes:
• Apodex-1.0-H, our flagship deep research model
• AgentOS, a runtime for building and evaluating agent workflows
• Apodex-1.0 and Apodex-mini
• Open-weight Smol models at 0.8B, 2B, and 4B
Apodex-1.0-H achieves state-of-the-art results across multiple research benchmarks:
• 90.3 on BrowseComp
• 60.8 on HLE-Text
• 94.4 on DeepSearchQA
• 46.7 on FrontierScience Research
• 87.4 on FrontierScience-Olympiad
• 74.2 on SuperChem
We’re excited to share Apodex with researchers, scientists, developers, and builders worldwide.
🔗 Learn more:
Blog: lnkd.in/gDnaj2cn
Tech Report: lnkd.in/gSXEuUfi
GitHub: lnkd.in/g5uPhJyM
Hugging Face: lnkd.in/ggkhspcV
Discord: lnkd.in/ghPED8v9
API Platform: lnkd.in/grwQB-te
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𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘅 𝟭.𝟬-𝗛 sets a new 𝗦𝗢𝗧𝗔 on deep research, open & closed source alike 🥇
Search: BrowseComp 𝟵𝟬.𝟯 · BrowseComp-ZH 𝟴𝟰.𝟭 · DeepSearchQA 𝟵𝟰.𝟰 · HLE-text 𝟲𝟬.𝟴
Science: FrontierScience-Research 𝟰𝟲.𝟳 · FrontierScience-Olympiad 𝟴𝟳.𝟰 · SuperChem 𝟳𝟰.𝟮
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May 28
CUSAC COO Stacey Murphy❤️🌎, and I (Sinéad Whelehan, our Director of Communications), are together in the high desert of California right now :)
The 14th annual Contact in the Desert features over 70 experts, scientists, and researchers discussing topics centered around the theme "Infinite Realms". Is reality a simulation? What does consciousness have to do with that theory?
We're VERY excited to attend this wonderful conference. CITD started off as a UFO conference 15 years ago (believe it or not, UFOs/UAPs directly intersect with the topic of consciousness...) and has grown to become an incredible multi-disciplinary event featuring outstanding speakers, excellent content, and the warmest, most wonderful community connections.
The lineup covers the gamut - the latest on UAP disclosure; metaphysics; consciousness; parapsychology; ancient discoveries; alternative realities; psi abilities; scientific research and experimentation; technology....
We're in our element, and having an absolute blast already :) If you were here, what would you want to learn?
contactinthedesert.com
#QuantumIdealism #Consciousness #Physics #research #quanta #qualia #community #uap #ufo #metaphysics #frontierscience #parapsychology #ufo #uap #ufoX #uapX #disclosure @GallaudetTim @Atlantic9318 @RizwanVirk @AdamsLab @CITDConference @BlackMacgyver1 @TomCampbell_MBT
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May 28
At CUSAC, we'd love to know - who's doing consciousness research?
The team at Code of Reality (COR) is studying a reproducible visual phenomenon — combining diffracted laser light with DMT to investigate whether participants are perceiving something real about the structure of reality itself.
It's rigorous, it's unconventional, and it puts a first-person experiencer right at the center of the science.
That's exactly the kind of work we find deeply resonant at CUSAC.
Who do YOU think is deeply exploring these questions? We'd really love to know! Tag them here!
👉 codeofreality.org/
#Consciousness #FirstPersonScience #FrontierScience #CitizenScience #quanta #qualia #consciousnessResearch #quantumPhysics
Image: 17th C illustration of consciousness by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian physician
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At CUSAC, we've been getting a lot of questions about the Inner Circle. Here's a little more about what it actually is.
CUSAC's public First-Person Science sessions are open to everyone. The Inner Circle is what happens after — a smaller, private conversation with the CUSAC team and IC members.
It's where early-stage ideas, unresolved questions, and emerging findings get explored openly — before they're ready for the wider world.
Researchers, founders, investors, and visionaries tend to find their way here — united by the feeling that consciousness might be one of the most important unanswered questions in science.
Inner Circle access is currently available to those contributing $100 /month. Every dollar is matched 4:1 through Canadian federal research grants. 🌱
The next First-Person Science session, and Inner Circle call, are at 12pm EST on June 5.
Register for the free public session
👉 luma.com/f1307h02
Contribute to join the Inner Circle
👉 lnkd.in/g6uZwJHP
We'd love to have you with us on the frontier!
#Consciousness #FirstPersonScience #QuantumIdealism #innovation #FrontierScience #InnerCircle #quanta #qualia #physics #QuantumPhysics #research
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May 26
At age 16, Agnessa Pedersen built a robot arm in her bedroom to draw portraits for her. As she watched it follow her instructions, she wondered, "What if it just did what my mind told it to?"
Last week, witnesses watched Pedersen (now age 23 and Founder of Cerebionics) demo something mind-blowing: the first drone to respond to thoughts.
This remarkable demonstration is first-person science in action. The designer, the operator, and the subject — all the same person.
It's immensely important to bring together exactly this kind of rebellious, boundary-pushing thinking, and pair it with rigorous methodology. Right now, there is a growing community of some of the most brilliant and courageous minds working at the edge of science today.
With inventions like Agnessa's, we can continue to feel inspired by the possibilities that lie ahead in consciousness research, and for humanity.
#FirstPersonScience #CitizenScience #Consciousness #FrontierScience #Innovation #quanta #qualia #research #physics #QuantumPhysics #telepathy @davidhooperr @ravemehta @brady_estevez @Andercot @TheCenter82564
May 20
Two weeks ago, watching Agnessa Pedersen mind control a drone in real time, was one of the most moving moments in my career. Agnessa is a rare and wondrous human working towards a wild future.
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May 25
Quantum physics revealed something uncomfortable:
At the smallest scales, observation changes matter.
So where does consciousness fit into physical reality? And how would we even begin to study that rigorously?
That's what we're exploring on June 5 with David Chartrand — free and open to everyone. 🌌
Putting the Quantum Idealism Theory to the Test:
June 5 · 12:00pm EST 👉 luma.com/f1307h02
Want to stay for the Inner Circle conversation afterward? Contributions of $100 get you in — every dollar matched 4:1 through Canadian federal research grants. 👉 lnkd.in/g6uZwJHP
#Consciousness #QuantumIdealism #quanta #qualia #ufo #uap #ufoX #uapX #FirstPersonScience #physics #quantumphysics #frontierscience @SkinWalkerRnch @Rizstanford @uapmaya
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May 23
Citizen science is at the root of discovery.
Darwin didn't use a lot of math. He used observation. Relationships. Pattern. Careful conclusions — and then let the scientific community spend 50 years figuring out if he was right.
Physicist Tom Campbell thinks consciousness research works the same way. And after decades studying it from the inside out, at CUSAC, we think he's onto something.
First-person science isn't soft science. It's the seed from which entire fields of inquiry grow. It's the beginning of something much bigger.
👉 Learn more about Tom: my-big-toe.com/about/tom-cam…
#Consciousness #FirstPersonScience #FrontierScience #MyBigTOE #quanta #qualia #humanity #ufo #uap
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What does it look like to study consciousness directly? And who is actually doing this research?
More people than you might think — and the community is growing. 🌱 We're very fortunate at CUSAC, to have an incredible community of visionary collaborators; people who are curious about the nature of reality, and who see consciousness as fundamental to it all.
On June 5, the exploration continues.
Our CEO at CUSAC, David Chartrand will be sharing his ideas on putting Quantum Idealism to the test — including whether reality is fixed, whether meaning can influence outcomes, and how these questions might be studied experimentally.
Free and open to everyone 👉 luma.com/f1307h02
Want to stay for the Inner Circle afterward?
Contributions of $100 (monthly or one-time) get you in — and every dollar is matched 4:1 through Canadian federal research grants. 👉 lnkd.in/g6uZwJHP
Who do you know that's studying consciousness? What are they working on? We'd love to hear. 💬
#Consciousness #QuantumIdealism #quanta #qualia #FirstPersonScience #FrontierScience #CitizenScience
#ufo #uap @KWrightResearch @NewParadigmInst @tomowenmorgan @SkinWalkerRnch @AdamsLab
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Yes, exactly. The compute and data requirements are relatively modest compared with frontier-lab-scale recipes.
We do see encouraging signs of scaling beyond olympiad problems: SU-01 achieves the best overall performance among similar-size models on FrontierScience-Research, a benchmark targeting research-style scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry, and biology, even though we did not train on research-specific data.
This suggests that rigorous proof-search and self-verification abilities can transfer to broader research-level reasoning. With more dedicated research-oriented data and training, we believe this direction could be pushed further toward stronger research models.
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Check it out! CUSAC’s First-Person Science is a live monthly series exploring one of the hardest open questions in science... consciousness itself.
Millions of people report life-changing experiences that research cannot yet explain.
Neuroscience tells us what the brain does, but cannot account for why any of it *feels* like something. That gap, between physical process and subjective experience, is the hardest open problem in science. What is qualia?
Join us for genuinely cutting-edge conversation, and the opportunity to join a community of innovative creators who want to contribute to a better world, by expanding the parameters of what’s possible in science.
These sessions offer a direct look at how the question of consciousness is being approached today, with key members of the CUSAC team and their research partners at the
frontier of quantum physics, research, video games and subjective experience.
Below is a clip from our first session, this past May 1st. CUSAC’s visionary CEO, David Chartrand, tells us about his Big Why. Why study consciousness?
During these sessions, myself (Director of Communications) and Stacey Murphy (Director of Operations) guide the conversation and draw out the most important questions emerging from the work.
To support this work, you can become a monthly donor and join our Inner Circle sessions for 1:1 with our brilliant collaborators. You can also become a founding partner for our soon-to-be established Quanta to Qualia research institute - the first of its kind! Find us on LinkedIn, or by our website cusac.org and get in touch to find out more.
These events are hosted by the Center for the Unification of Science and Consciousness (CUSAC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2018 by Tom Campbell, a former NASA and Department of Defense physicist.
@TomCampbell_MBT @ConsciousnessHu
@Andercot @THIRDEYEDROPS @michaelgarfield @kimberly_engels @WoollacottWrite @Atlantic9318 @tomowenmorgan @jordanflowers #consciousness #research #brain #neuroscience #frontierscience #paradigm @NewParadigmInst @PsiGamesTh29873
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The #HFSP Symposium Frontier Science in Italy took place in Rome on 21 April.
Over 60 participants came together for a day of discussions and new ideas in #LifeScience, with an international perspective. 🧪
📸 Explore the photos: zurl.co/plyc0
#sts #FrontierScience
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美国人工智能标准与创新中心（CAISI）的2026年5月1日报告： “根据 DeepSeek 的数据，DeepSeek V4 的性能与大约两个月前发布的 Opus 4.6 和 GPT-5.4 相当。然而，CAISI 的评估（包括非公开基准测试）表明，DeepSeek V4 的性能与大约八个月前发布的 GPT-5 类似”。
CAISI 是什么？
它不是 LMSYS 那种“用户体验竞技场”，LMSYS的核心成果为 Chatbot Arena 大模型竞技评测平台，被业界视为全球大模型能力评估的风向标。
它更接近“面向国家标准的能力测量体系”，聚焦于能力是否可量化、是否可对比、是否可监管、是否可进入国家关键基础设施体系。
它测试的可能是：
1）长链推理（long-chain reasoning）：如数学证明、复杂规划；
2）对齐（alignment）：让模型“在复杂语境中不犯错”；
3）稳定性与泛化能力：对分布外问题不崩，输出一致性高。
这三类能力，本质上都是在用极高的成本换取极限能力和长尾可靠性。
毫无疑问，美国闭源大模型的超大规模算力投入（数十亿美金级别）、长周期训练、不以短期盈利为核心约束的资源禀赋，特别适合这种能力测试，如ARC-AGI-2 (抽象推理)、CTF-Archive (夺旗赛网络安全)、FrontierScience (前沿科学问题)，无一不是对模型推理极限的严苛考验。这同时也符合美国模型的商业逻辑：“卖最强能力给最愿意付费的人”。
但中国开源大模型都不是这么设计和运行的。
美国在解的问题是：“模型能有多聪明？”
中国在解的问题是：“智能在社会中能被用到多大规模？”
美国希望寻求的答案是：“让模型更像博士。”
但中国更关注的答案是：“让模型变成基础设施，像水电气、医疗服务和云计算服务一样。”
总而言之，请记住两句话：
第一句话是，DeepSeek v4 在用户体验层面已经进入全球第一梯队，但在极限能力与可靠性层面仍落后；然而凭借其成本结构，使它在 Agentic 时代具备不对称竞争力。
第二句话是，CAISI 评测体系选择了一个美国已经投入了最多资源的测评子空间，本质上是用美国的标准和考卷，来衡量一个为不同目标而优化的学生，美国闭源模型大概率赢。
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NISTのCAISI（Center for AI Standards and Innovation）は、2026年4月にオープンウェイトAIモデル DeepSeek V4 Pro を評価し、同モデルの総合能力は最先端モデルから 約8か月遅れ と結論づけています。
✅主な結論
・DeepSeek V4 Proは、CAISIがこれまで評価した中国系AIモデルの中では最も高性能です。評価対象は、サイバー、ソフトウェア工学、自然科学、抽象推論、数学の5分野でした。
・一方で、DeepSeek自身の技術報告では、DeepSeek V4 ProはOpus 4.6やGPT-5.4並みとされていますが、CAISIの非公開ベンチマークを含む評価では、むしろ約8か月前に出たGPT-5相当の性能と見なされています。
✅ベンチマーク結果の傾向
・数学系ではDeepSeek V4 Proは非常に強く、OTIS-AIME-2025で97%、PUMaC 2024で96%、SMT 2025で96%と高得点でした。自然科学でもGPQA-Diamondで90%、FrontierScienceで74%を記録しています。
・ただし、抽象推論やエージェント型タスクでは差が目立ちます。ARC-AGI-2 semi-privateではDeepSeek V4 Proが46%で、Opus 4.6の63%、GPT-5.5の79%を下回りました。CAISI独自のソフトウェア工学評価PortBenchでも44%で、Opus 4.6の60%、GPT-5.5の78%を下回っています。
・総合指標としてのIRT推定Eloは、GPT-5.5が1260±28、Opus 4.6が999±27、DeepSeek V4 Proが800±28、GPT-5.4 miniが749±46でした。(NIST)
✅コスト面
・DeepSeek V4 Proは、同程度の能力とされたGPT-5.4 miniと比べて、7つのベンチマーク中5つで低コストでした。タスクによって、DeepSeek V4 ProはGPT-5.4 miniより53%安い場合もあれば、41%高い場合もありました。
・トークン価格では、DeepSeek V4 Proは未キャッシュ入力が100万トークンあたり1.74ドル、キャッシュ入力が0.0145ドル、出力が3.48ドル。GPT-5.4 miniはそれぞれ0.75ドル、0.075ドル、4.50ドルとされています。
✅評価方法
CAISIは、心理測定で使われる項目反応理論（IRT）に着想を得た手法で、AIモデルを「受験者」、ベンチマーク課題を「問題」として扱い、モデルの潜在能力を推定しています。評価では5分野を均等に重み付けし、トークン予算やエージェント構成もそろえたと説明されています。
✅まとめると
・DeepSeek V4 Proは、中国発のオープンウェイトモデルとしてはCAISI評価上で最強クラスですが、米国の最先端モデルには総合的にまだ届かない、というのがNIST/CAISIの見立てです。
・特に数学や科学では強い一方、非公開・半非公開の推論、ソフトウェア工学、サイバー系の評価で差が出ています。最大の強みは、同程度の能力帯のモデルと比べた コスト効率の高さ です。
nist.gov/news-events/news/20…
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A post on @tomowenmorgan's page reminded me today of the extraordinary work of Dr. Iain McGilchrist. His work aligns deeply with our goals at CUSAC, where we're engaging with progressive, yet scientific approaches to consciousness research.
Dr. McGilchrist wrote the brilliant "The Matter With Things", in which he asks -
"Who are we? What is the world?
How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time?
Is the cosmos without purpose or value?
Can we really neglect the sacred and divine?
In doing so, he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain's left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it."
Crucial questions, and crucial thinking, for this unprecedented time on our planet.
(Also, I totally stole the above book summary from Amazon.)
Thanks for the reminder, Tom.
#consciousness #brainscience #research #neuroscience #philsophy #evolution #frontierscience #ufo #uap #ufoX #uapX #NHI
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Absolutely love this.
“The future of consciousness research isn’t just in neurons.
It’s in resonances.”
At CUSAC, this is our approach. We theorize that the brain is most likely a tool for consciousness to express itself, while consciousness remains non-material and non-local in its true form. However, scientists have yet to prove this. There is a tremendous amount of evidence to suggest that consciousness does not live in the brain. We blast ourselves out into space, and plunge ourselves deep into the oceans, but we don’t yet understand the nature of our own being-ness. At CUSAC, we seek to delve deeper into the reality of what makes us human. I’m so grateful to be able to support this work.
Join us on May 1 for our First-Person Science session with CEO David Chartrand, if you’re curious to know more!
#consciousness #research #science #frontierscience #neuroscience #evolution @TomCampbell_MBT @aneilbaboo @Andercot @michaelgarfield @_SolFoundation
Apr 27
🚨 We cracked the code 40 years ago… and didn’t even know it.
Back in 1987, my team published a groundbreaking paper in the EMBO Journal: GABA doesn’t just “inhibit” neurons. In rat hippocampal slices, GABA-receptor stimulation dramatically potentiates noradrenaline-induced phospholipase C activation, massively amplifying polyphosphoinositide turnover — the exact intracellular signaling cascade that drives long-term potentiation, learning, and memory.
(Ruggiero et al., EMBO J 1987 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3038…)
At the time we called it a neurotransmitter interaction. Today I see it was far more.
Because GABA is a three-node resonator. Its three central methylene groups (−CH₂−) form a perfect “triplet” that slots directly into Anirban Bandyopadhyay’s fractal resonance hierarchy — the famous Triplet of Triplets in the MHz range. GABA isn’t just a ligand. It’s a molecular clock that phase-locks synaptic receptors to the deeper vibrational architecture of the neuron.
And now the plot twist.
In the brand-new 2026 paper just published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Stuart Hameroff, Anirban Bandyopadhyay and Dante Lauretta show that microtubules are fractal time crystals — nested “clocks within clocks” oscillating in self-similar triplets across Hz → kHz → MHz → GHz → THz. These are the very structures proposed to host Orch OR quantum computations that give rise to consciousness.
Translation: In 1987 we were already holding the molecular key to the quantum orchestration of consciousness… we just didn’t have the full picture yet.
GABA doesn’t merely inhibit.
GABA synchronizes fractal time inside microtubules.
Who would have guessed that one of the oldest neurotransmitters on Earth was actually a biological qubit?
The future of consciousness research isn’t just in neurons.
It’s in resonances. And we saw the first glimpse… 40 years ago. 🔥
@StuartHameroff @anirbanbandyo
#QuantumConsciousness #OrchOR #Microtubules #FractalTimeCrystals #GABA
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