“Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep”

It’s the title of an article forthcoming in Nature Neuroscience.  As yesterday’s NYT article says, this is big news.  The authors appear to have recorded the non-REM-sleep-induced dialogue between cortex and hippocampus by which long term memories are consolidated.

Gelertner, Kurzweil, and Copeland Video

Corey Maley sent me “a link to a webcast of a debate between David Gelerntner and Ray Kurzweil on machine consciousness. Perhaps a bit more interesting is a talk by Jack Copeland on Turing’s contribution to codebreaking and to the development of AI (which starts at about the 1 hour 45 minute mark).”

Imageless Thought

The standard story about the demise of introspectionist psychology goes something like this:  Towards the beginning of the 20th Century, experimental psychologists relied on introspecting subjects to study the mind.  Members of one prominent school believed that each thought is reducible to sensory images (visual, auditory including verbal, proprioceptive, etc.).  Among …

A Note on Heterophenomenology

In comments to some previous posts, Marcin Milkowski raised a spirited defense of Dennett’s heterophenomenology (HF) as a correct methodology of data from first-person reports (about mental states).  Among other statements, he made the following:   “HF is not about inferring beliefs from verbal behavior in any setting.  It’s about …

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