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June 19, 2011cognitive science, consciousness, consciousness explained, Daniel Dennett, Descartes, Galen Strawson, heterophenomenology, homunculus, mind body, neural correlates, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, qualia

Consciousness Explained

Can it really be twenty years since Dennett’s Consciousness Explained? There were of course many reviews of said book but check out Galen Strawson’s review.

June 16, 2011active externalism, active perception, Andy Clark, brain, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, cyborgs, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, extended mind, externalism, iphone, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social cognition, social networking, sociocognition, stigmergy, TED

Chalmers’ TED talk on The Extended Mind

The Extended Mind – I think that this is the first time Dave has expanded the idea to social extension or networks. I recall that FB post he mentions. And Dave is trailing on his website his forthcoming book Constructing the World (OUP). BIG NEWS!! alzheimer’sCognitive scienceconstructing the worldExtended Mind

June 16, 2011brain, cognition, consciousness, mind body, neural correlates, neural signals, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, Nicholas Humphrey, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, soul dust, the "hard" problem

Soul Dust, the Magic of Consciousness

The first of Nicholas Humphrey’s Pufendorf Lectures plugging his new book. Here is a recent review from the NYT.

June 7, 2011brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, extended mind, journal of cosmology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, quantum brain, roger penrose, Stuart Hameroff

Consciousness and the Universe

Check out the (mostly) published special issue of the Journal of Cosmology edited by Penrose and Hameroff which includes the paper “The Spread Mind: Seven Steps to Situated Consciousness” by Riccardo Manzotti.

May 31, 2011biology, cognitive science, complexity, consciousness, dan zahavi, Dennett, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, empty mind, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, francesco varela, Mike Wheeler, Mind in Life, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, Tobias Schlicht

Symposium on Mind in Life

Check out this special issue (Ed. Tobias Schlicht) of Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life. Participants include Dennett, Grush, Hutto, Siewert, Van Gulick, Wheeler, Zahavi and others. Journal of Consciousness Studies

May 29, 2011active externalism, active perception, Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, Chalmers, consciousness, cyborgs, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Georg Theiner, ghost in the machine, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, stigmergy

Res cogitans extensa: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis

Look out for Georg Theiner’s book (publisher, Peter Lang) that is about to hit the shelves. I’m reproducing the cover blurb from the preprint he so kindly sent me. Georg has already done some good work for an Extended Mind project and I’m looking forward to his contribution to the stigmergy issue. Abstract for Res cogitans…

May 28, 2011brain, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, david chalmers, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, qualia, zombies

Zombie Blues by NYC Consciousness Collective

Philosophers as you don’t normally see them (they are not going to give up the day job). The in-joke revolves around the zombie thought experiment. On a more formal note, here is Dave Chalmers on a recent radio show.