Gualtiero’s recent post “Classicism, Connectionism, and the Harmonic Mind” has produced some great discussion, and I thought I would pick up a challenge that Edouard made in one of the comments, namely: providing a concrete example where we seem to know a lot about “how the representations involved in higher …
The Saint Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association will hold its first conference (SLAPSA1) on Saturday, Febraruary 28, 2009. The keynote speaker will be PAUL WEYRICH (University of Missouri). The meeting will be held on the campus of Washington University, in room 104 of Wilson Hall.The schedule of speakers and …
This NEH Institute might be of interest to some readers of Brains: Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics. (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in …
Due to popular demand the deadline for submitting a paper to Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference has been extended from December 15th, 2008 to January 12th, 2009. So, finish up those papers and submit something! Submit papers to consciousnessonline@gmail.com
Only three more weeks left to submit a paper to Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference. For details see the conference website.
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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 …
