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The Online Consciousness Conference has officially begun!!

Below the fold I have posted some thoughts on the higher-order thought theory of consciousness and introspection in case people want more consciousness!!

Hi Guys, N.B. this isn’t just for UK folk, we’re hoping that it is also of use to a wider international community, and we’re serious about building international links… This is to announce the launch of the Mind Network, a new UK network for Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science …

Hi, thanks very much to Gualtiero for allowing me to post here.  Last summer, I published an article in the journal Neuroethics discussing the possibility of genetically engineering livestock that lack the affective or “suffering” component of pain.  New Scientist magazine picked up on the story and this generated a …

via Sam Coleman; *The Phenomenal Qualities Project* Podcasts now available on the Project website- Featuring: Tim Crane, David Papineau, Philip GoffJerry Valberg, Andreas Hutteman, Sam Coleman on such topics as: The nature of phenomenal concepts, perception,consciousness and metaphysics, intentionalism,qualia, physicalism. Podcasts available at:https://phenomenalqualities.wordpress.com/phenomenal-podcasts/ See also our uploaded papers, and photos from recent …

(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) The NYU Mind and Language seminar has started up again with a really excellent line up. I hope to blog about them as they happen… Last Monday I attended Ned Block’s session on his paper Attention and Mental Paint. I have talked about an earlier version of …