Is Consciousness a Spandrel?
Next week I’m presenting a
Month: June 2012
Summer Institute on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness
The blog site for the daily (hourly!) postings from the Turing Centenary Summer Institute on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness hosted by the Cognitive Sciences Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal, June 29 – July 12 will be: https://turingc.blogspot.ca/ Turing-Consciousness has a Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/TuringConsciousness as well as …
Deflating Hypercomputation
After way too many years since I initially wrote it, I recently published a paper on the physical church-turing thesis in BJPS. The paper argues that computation properly so called must be usable by an observer such as human beings to generate desired values of a function. When this point is made …
Afterlife and the Persistence of the Self
In a recent blog post, Ian accuses me of being “instinctively a strong dualist.” His reason seems to be that I affirm that the self persists in normal circumstances but does not persist under teleportation. Unfortunately I could not follow his reasoning. I hold that from moment to moment, we persist as …
Conscious Vision in Action
Robert Briscoe and I have been working for quite some time on a paper that synthesizes work that the two of us had been doing independently concerning the Two Visual Systems Hypothesis. Each of us is concerned (albeit with somewhat different motivations) to defend the idea that conscious visual awareness …
Neuroaesthetics
My colleague William Hirstein just posted a very interesting review of the way in which neuroscience might inform our understanding of art on his Psychology Today blog here.
Consciousness and Computation
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] 2012 marks 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing. Saturday June 23rd is the actual centenary. That weekend also happens to be pride week in nyc. Given this line up of the Celestial Signs, The New York Consciousness Collective invites you to the Lower East …