Publications
Journal articles
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Longin, L., Karpus, J., Meertens, N., Bahrami, B., & Deroy, O. (2027). AI is not as conscious as humans: Essentialism in mental state attributions to artificial systems. Cognition, 278, 106733.
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Meertens, N. (2024). Hedonic valence at the core of consciousness: A review of “A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness” by Walter Veit. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 5.
Conference papers
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Didiot-Cook, T., Jones, S., Blee, J., Meertens, N., Abu-Aisheh, R., Deroy, O., & Hauert, S. (2026). nOdes: A Networked Constellation of Handheld Orbs for Community Music-Making. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 882--887.
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Lee, S., Meertens, N., Milner, E., Hauert, S. (2026). A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems. In: Jiménez Rodríguez, A., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15582. Springer, Cham.
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Bacciu, D., Ambriola, V., Bahrami, B., Ceni, A., Cossu, A., De Caro, V., Della Santina, C., Deroy, O., Gallicchio, C., Guidotti, R., Hauert, S., Jones, S., Karpus, J., Lee, S., Liu, J., Lomonaco, V., Meertens, N., Milner, E., Monreale, A., Nakahara, R., Ramirez, M., Shahabi, S., Stölzle, M. (2024). EMERGE - Emergent Awareness from Minimal Collectives. In C. Secchi & L. Marconi (Eds.), European Robotics Forum 2024 (Vol. 32, pp. 87–91). Springer Nature Switzerland.
Pre-prints
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Meertens, N. (2026). What is it to be aware? A Pragmatic Approach to Comparing Animal Awareness. PsyArXiv.
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Meertens, N., Lee, S., & Deroy, O. (2026). Just aware enough: Evaluating awareness across artificial systems (Version 1). arXiv.