Experiences that cannot be put into words
Episode 3 of Marc Champagne’s podcast. Cognitive scienceconsciousnessJordan PetersonMarc Champagnenon-conceptual contentphenomenologyPhilosophy of mindqualiareligion and sciencesemiotics
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Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs: How Peircean Semiotics Combines Phenomenal Qualia and Practical Effects
This just released book should be of interest to both Peirceans and Percyeans. Charles Sanders PeirceconsciousnessMarc ChampagnemetaphysicsphenomenologyPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindqualiasemioticsWalker Percy
The Active Inference Approach to Ecological Perception
New article by Andy Clark et al. in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExternalismphenomenologyPsychologysituated cognition
The reappearing tool: transparency, smart technology, and the extended mind
A recently published open access paper by Mike Wheeler. AIBach-y-RitaCognitive scienceExtended MindMartin HeideggerMaurice Merleau-PontyMike WheelerphenomenologyRobert Rupertsituated cognition
Dan Zahavi on Husserl’s legacy
Richard Marshall chats with Dan in 3:AM Magazine. Very briefly put, I think phenomenologists reject various forms of reductionism, objectivism, and scientism. They insist on foregrounding the experiential perspective, and are more interested in descriptive adequacy than in explanatory mechanisms. Central to their efforts is an attempt to characterize and understand the pre-scientific lifeworld, which…
Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind
Coming soon from Shaun Gallagher. Embodied cognitionenactivismneurosciencephenomenologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of social sciencepragmatismShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
Hubert Dreyfus
Obit here. Reports of my demise are not exaggerated. — Hubert Dreyfus (@hubertdreyfus) April 22, 2017 AICognitive sciencedistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitive scienceexistentialismHubert DreyfusMartin HeideggerphenomenologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
First evidence for higher state of consciousness found
Popular write-up here; the original article here. In the study, neuroscientists observed a sustained increase in the diversity of brain signals of people under the influence of psychedelic drugs, compared with when they were in a normal ‘awake and aware’ state. consciousnessmrineurosciencephenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindpsychedelic drugs
Thought Insertion as a Self-Disturbance: An Integration of Predictive Coding and Phenomenological Approaches
My correspondent, the very excellent Aaron Mishara, has just alerted me to his latest freely available coauthored paper in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. For those familiar with Andy Clark’s “Whatever next? predictive brains, situated agents and the future of cognitive science” and Shaun Gallagher’s “Neurocognitive models of schizophrenia: a neurophenomenological critique” — this article should be…
Francisco Varela: Late Interview
I chanced upon this video of Francisco Varela, clearly his illness at an advanced stage. I’m not a Spanish speaker so the substance of the video is lost on me. If you don’t know who FV is, here is an obituary by one of his closest friends and collaborators, the very excellent Evan Thompson. Running the video’s…
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