You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about space and time and mind! The first episode is up now (and has been …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Here at Brains Wayne Wu has been posting about, among other things, introspection and attention. One of the interesting things to come out of the discussion was the notion of ‘cognitive attention’ which consists in directing one’s thoughts. If this is truly a kind of attention …
I am getting ready to head out to San Diego for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 17th Annual meeting. I have organized a symposium on the Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Conscious Experience which will feature talks by Rafi Malach, Joe Levine, Doby Rahnev, and me! …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Like I don’t have enough going on over at this year’s Online Consciousness Conference (which is still in session until Friday March 1st) I have been sitting in on David Rosenthal’s class at the Graduate Center on Mental Qualities (previous post here). Today he presented an …
The Fifth Online Consciousness Conference is now underway! It will run until March 1st so stop by and join in the fun!
The program for the Fifth Online Consciousness Conference is now finalized. The conference is set to begin Friday Feb 15th. In the meantime the papers are available to read ahead of time here. We have a very exciting program this year and I want to thank Dan Dennett for agreeing …
To any and all in the Tri-State area you are invited to the 3rd Qualia Fest. Organized by the New York Consciousness Collective the Qualia Fest is an annual event that celebrates the music of philosophers and cognitive scientists. When: Monday December 10th 2012 Where: The Bowery Electric 327 Bowery …
