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Allman Lecture on Intuition
John Allman’s lecture as part of the Brain, Mind and Consciousness series put on by the Skeptics Society. Allman is best known for his work on the anatomical structure of the Von Economo neurons (102 minutes).
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Hameroff Lecture: A New Marriage of Brain and Computer
Consciousness studies luminary, Stuart Hameroff, Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology and Director, Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson (59 minutes)
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Dave Chalmers interview
Some rare footage of Dave Chalmers, philosopher of mind extraordinaire. Below is an interview conducted by John Horgan.
Here is full the interview (77 minutes)
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Complex Systems Resource
Thanks to the stigmergic properties of the Web I am thrilled to make the acquaintance of Vitorino Ramos of the Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab., IST, Technical University of Lisbon. For those interested in all things related to Artificial Life and Intelligence, Bio-Inspired Computation, Collective Intelligence and Complex Systems, Evolution, Self-Organization and emergent Cognitive Learning, and of course all things stigmergic, Vitorino is THE MAN. His website is a wonderfully rich resource for online papers, lectures and much more besides. I re-produce some excellent footage from Vitorino’s homepage – flocking Starlings whose collective movements are as smooth as any animated morph. Great stuff!
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BBC Nietzsche Documentary
Part of the BBC’s Human All Too Human series on existentialist thinkers (50 minutes). Features the late Reg Hollingdale, Nietzsche’s translator, who I first met at the founding of the Nietzsche Society of Great Britain. We met next when Reg stepped in at the last minute to give a wonderfully compelling talk about his life’s work as translator when a speaker at the Nietzsche Society conference (Essex that year I think) dropped out.
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Heidegger: thinking the unthinkable
A BBC documentary that gives a good introductory overview of Heidegger’s philosophy and controversial life featuring his son, Gadamer, Rorty, Steiner and others (49 minutes).
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Berlin documentary
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Ramachandran Lecture: The Uniqueness of the Human Brain
V.S. Ramachandran – another dynamic speaker in the Searle mould (54 minutes). Much of what he talks about concerns issues of embodiment – e.g. the phenomenon of phantom limbs. See my review of Shaun Gallagher’s How the body shapes the mind.
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