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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
[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 …
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO (SUNY), Buffalo NY. 2 Year Non-Tenure Track Full Time Faculty Position, beginning Fall 2012. Four courses per year (2 per semester; Graduate and Undergraduate levels), along with normal non-teaching duties (i.e. student advisement, participation in departmental events, etc.). Salary: $45K plus benefits. AOS: Philosophy of Mind. AOC: …
Sunday, May 13, University of Lund, Sweden Details The workshop “Philosophy and Computation” aims to be a platform for various discussions concerning the use of computability in philosophy (for example, how computational complexity constraints can contribute to explain human understanding) and also questions concerning the philosophical investigation of computation (like questions related to Church-Turing thesis). The workshop is …
