The University of Pennsylvania announces their Neuroscience Boot Camp, August 2-12, 2009. Why Neuroscience Boot Camp? Neuroscience is increasingly relevant to a number of professions and academic disciplines beyond its traditional medical applications. Lawyers, educators, economists and businesspeople, as well as scholars of philosophy, sociology, applied ethics and policy, are …
The website Online Education Database has compiled a list of 100 “fascinating” Brain Blogs, including ours. (Their title says “101 Fascinating Brain Blogs”, but as far as i can tell, they only list 100 blogs. Go figure.)
Mark Buchanan, The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. Buchanan is an American physicist and former editor of Nature. In his latest book, he argues that the collective behavior of human beings can be understood …
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A. Syropoulos, Hypercomputation: Computing Beyond the Church-Turing Barrier. New York, Springer, 2008.There is now a wide range of proposals for physical (more or less) systems that purportedly compute functions that are not computable by Turing machines. This new book reviews many proposals from the hypercomputation literature, such as infinite time …
Here.The carnival links to my previous post but contains a slight misunderstanding. I wasn’t trying to argue that “cognition is computation plus X”; rather, I was arguing that the most plausible version of computationalism is that cognition is computation plus X. I was being neutral on whether computationalism holds.
