All in the Mind on the blog
The excellent program All in the Mind from the ABC Radio National is launching a program’s blog here. On Saturday, there will be an interview with Steven Pinker.
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Modeling, Simulation and Computational Science: Perspectives from different sciences
Workshop 29.11.2007 – 30.11.2007 HelsinkiThursday 29.11. 2007: Metsätalo, aud. 4, ( Unioninkatu 40)Computational templates and computational science:10.00 – 11.15 Paul Humphreys, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia: “Computational Templates: Representation and Application”11.15 – 11.30 Coffee 11.30 – 12.15 Andrea Loettgers, California Institute of Technology: “Computational templates in modeling biological systems”12.15 …
MindPapers
David Chalmers has just announced the launch of MindPapers – an online database of mind-related papers on the Web. It’s much bigger than the bibliography he compiled and offers additional options such as submitting papers to it.
Neanderthal Speak?
An article that recently appeared in Current Biology reports that Neanderthals shared with us the gene FOXP2 — the only gene known to be involved in the development of normal linguistic competence. This suggests that, contrary to previous assumptions, Neanderthals might have had a language like we do. (A couple of quick …
ICT Theory of Mind Workshop
A workshop on theory of mind just took place at USC. The program webpage contains some links to recent work on the subject, including a review article on mirror neurons (published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience).
Two-State, Three-Symbol Turing Machine is Universal
Wolfram’s contest for proving (or disproving) whether a particular 2-state, 3-symbol (or color) Turing Machine has been won by a 20-year old engineering student from the UK. Link to write-up in Nature here.
Sleeping News
There are four articles about sleeping (1, 2, 3, 4) in today’s NY Times.