Raphaël Millière

Raphaël Millière is a Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University. His philosophical interests lie mainly within the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of cognitive science. His current research project investigates the relationship between self-representation and the spatial content of visual perception, both from a theoretical standpoint and through experimental research using virtual reality. He is also interested in issues related to the capacities of deep artificial neural networks; the conceptualization and taxonomy of global states of consciousness, such as post-comatose disorders of consciousness and drug-induced states; and methodological issues regarding the use of first-person reports in cognitive neuroscience.

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Raphaël Millière completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2020. In his doctoral thesis and most recent publications, investigate the notion of self-consciousness in light of empirical evidence from conditions in which different forms of self-consciousness are disrupted, including drug-induced states. He defended a pluralist account of self-consciousness, according to which there are several ways in which one can be conscious of oneself as oneself. His recent works have also focused on the nature of perceptual error, the philosophical significance of autoscopy and full-body illusions, methodological issues regarding the collection of data about phenomenology, the epistemology of metaphysical realism, the conceivability principle in the epistemology of modalities, and topics in the history of philosophy (e.g. George Berkeley, F.H. Bradley, and Roman Ingarden).

He is a member of the ALIUS research network.

Notable Research Papers

• The varieties of selflessness (Millière, 2020)
• Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG (Timmerman, et al., 2019)
• Psychedelics, meditation, and self-consciousness (Millière et al., 2018)
• Looking for the self: phenomenology, neurophysiology and philosophical significance of drug-induced ego dissolution (Millière, 2017)

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Media

He has given many talks:

• Multidimensional approaches to consciousness (ALIUS Workshop, 2018)
• Drug-Induced Ego Dissolution, an analysis (ICPR, 2016)

More media:

• Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit: The language algorithm GPT-3 continues our descent into a post-truth world (Nautilus Magazine, 2021)
• Raphaël Millière co-edited the fourth issue of the ALIUS Bulletin (ALIUS, 2020)
• Psychedelics and Consciousness with Raphaël Millière (The Consciousness Podcast, 2017)