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The Neurosciences and Music
Just received my hard copy of this issue: This volume stems from the conference “The Neurosciences and Music IV: Learning and Memory,” held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 9–12, June 2011. The volumes focuses on four themes: infants and children, adults: musicians and non-musicians, disabilities and aging-related issues, and therapy and rehabilitation. Featured papers cover a…
Hayek, Hebb, and Heisenberg: Toward an Approach to Brain Functioning
Here’s the second of the extracts from a bona fide neuroscientist (and friend of Fuster). Gerald Edelman of course is also someone who recognized Hayek’s genius in this area. . . . the mind must remain forever in a realm of its own which we can now only directly experience it, but which we shall…
Hayek in Today’s Cognitive Neuroscience
My chum, the extraordinarily distinguished and generous neuroscientist Joaquín Fuster, has this excerpt from his essay: In bold characters I mark the concepts advanced by Hayek in his The Sensory Order. In parentheses, under each conclusion, the text passages are noted in which he makes reference to those concepts: 1. The cognitive code is a relational…
Brain Scans Don’t Catch The Brain In Action
Alva Noë in Cosmos And Culture Not so fast. A functional brain image such as those produced by PET and fMRI no more captures the brain in action than a graph illustrating the percentage of the population who go to church on Sunday captures the people in the act of worship. Brain scan images are graphical…
The Emerging Science of Consciousness: Mind, Brain and the Human Experience
Daniel Kahneman and David Chalmers on this panel. There are other discussions of relevance as well on this site. Artificial intelligenceBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceColin McGinnconsciousnessDaniel KahnemanDavid ChalmersneurocorrelatesNeurophilosophyneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrobotszombies
The Legacy of Francisco Varela
Here is a video piece commemorating a decade since Varela’s passing with some lovely footage of him speaking. Though it’s titled as part 1, I can’t find the subsequent parts and I can’t find anything on the associated website. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended MindFrancisco Varelaneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasocial epistemologyVarela
Rupert interview on extended mind
The VERY excellent Rob Rupert on naturalistic theories of mental content and no surprise – extended mind. Also with Jonno Sutton and Richard Menary sandwiched in between Rob. H/T to Ken Aizawa for the alert. Here is a link to my collection of “Rupertiana“. Alan SaundersBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityDavid ChalmersEmbodied cognitionExtended MindPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceRobert RupertShaun…
Alva Noë on consciousness
Alva Noë on where to look Alva NoëAstonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the SoulBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDescartesEmbodied cognitionExtended MindFrancis CrickneurosciencePhilosophy of mindRené Descartes
Extending the mind
Three luminaries – Rob Rupert, Richard Menary and Jonno Sutton – discuss the topic on Australia’s Radio National The Philosopher’s Zone. P.S. H/T to Ken Aizawa for bringing Rupert’s review of Clark to our attention. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindRichard MenaryRob RupertRobert Rupert
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