Look out for the this forthcoming book by Joel Walmsley. Joel co-wrote with the one and only Andre Kukla a terrific paper a few years back for one of the early issues of EPISTEME. Alan TuringArtificial intelligenceChinese RoomCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceConnectionismEmbodied cognitionNatural LanguagePhilosophyPhilosophy of mindqualiaTuring test
“Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips” in Science. The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things we want. We can “Google” the old classmate,…
Another of probably several Turing related posts in the run up to the summer commemorations of Turing’s birth and death (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) – the following from Science Magazine 13 April 2012: Vol. 336 no. 6078. I paste in a couple of paragraphs from each paper as a preview. Here is a Wired article…
Conference page. Here is also one of Turing’s most famous papers: I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms “machine” and “think.” The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this…
Jonah Lehrer interviews Eric Kandel about his recently released book. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessCreativityEgon SchieleEric KandelFreudGustav KlimtJonah LehrerModernismOskar KokoschkaPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaViennaVienna General Hospital
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
Here is the follow up to an earlier post on The Royal Institution event: presentations discussion BrainChris FrithCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionHard problem of consciousnessPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaRoyal Institution
Article reporting a study in Discover Magazine BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceDiffusion MRIHuman brainHuman Connectome ProjectMagnetic resonance imagingPhilosophy of mind
Shaun Gallagher talk: I argue that the extended mind hypothesis requires an enactive, neo-pragmatic concept of intentionality if it is to develop proper responses to a variety of objections. This enactive concept of intentionality is based on the phenomenological concept of a bodily (or motor or operative) intentionality outlined by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. I explore…
Here is a review of Shaun Gallagher’s door-stopper of a book – the publisher’s blurb and toc below. (I’ve just finished a paper for another collection that would have fitted in this collection since communitarian notions of identity seem to be missing). Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a…
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