The best online mind resource just got better. Dave Chalmers, in association with David Bourget, have just launched an upgraded version called MindPapers. The announcement from Chalmers. If ever there was a project that meets the needs of a community, it is this. Chalmers has done us an immense service.
The September 7th issue of Science is a special issue devoted to social cognition: the table of contents found here. I reproduce the introduction “Living in Societies” by Caroline Ash, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Pennisi and Andrew Sugden. The appearance of this issue has prompted me to post the introduction to the special issue of social cognition…
For many the term “film” let alone “Hollywood film” can be uttered in the same breath as philosophy (the only instances I can think of right now are Mishima, Death in Venice and Performance – three films conspicuously missing from a list of ostensibly philosophical films: I have mentioned elsewhere that what was passes for philosophy is contentious). Anyway, there is a film…
So-called “performance artist” Stelarc whom I first discovered through Andy Clark’s Natural Born Cyborgs (reviewed here) has implanted a “third ear” in his own arm. Apparently the ear will have a microphone implanted to allow others to listen to what his extra ear picks up. It looks like an ear but will it function like…
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)
Metzinger introduced by Alva Noë Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and First-Person Perspective (56 minutes)
From Brain Dynamics to Consciousness (86 minutes) Edelman is one of the few cognitive scientists who appreciate Hayek.
Introduction to Hayek – Hayek: Freedom’s Philosopher – Fighting the Planners (36 minutes) Inside the Hayek Equation – Hayek interview, Stanford 197? (30 minutes)
Dennett on top form: Can we know our own minds? (23 minutes) ==================================== 1. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (60 minutes) 2. The Magic of Consciousness (56 minutes) The following readings are highly relevant to the Extended Mind and stigmergy literature 3. Kind of Minds Pt 1 What Kinds of Minds Are There? (37 minutes) 4. Kinds…
Final pre-press version of this paper is now available. Stigmergy
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