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New Research Center in Philosophy of Cog Sci: Eidyn
Just to let you know about a new research center that has been launched in Edinburgh (Scotland). One of the specialities of the center will be philosophy of cognitive science. The research center is called Eidyn. One of its new projects is the recently awarded research grant on Extended Knowledge. There will be …
A Couple of Announcements
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Looking ahead to CO5, Daniel Dennett has agreed to give the keynote talk which is very exciting! There may be other surprises to come, so stay tuned! Stevan Harnad has allowed me to upload the videos of talks from his Turing Consciousness 2012 conference to my …
The First Special Issue of Journal of Cognitive Science
on a computational foundation for the study of cognition is now available online for free. (The link to O’Brien’s paper seems to be broken; hopefully it will be fixed soon.) The two subsequent special issues should be opened up shortly.
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 …