Hi Everyone! Join us this week for a symposium on Till Vierkant’s exciting new book, The Tinkering Mind! Till will kick us off today with a precis, followed by commentaries from Gloria Andrada, Paulius Rimkevicius, and Ting Huang. Then, on Friday, Till will respond. Join us in the discussion board …
We’re excited to release the second of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …
We’re excited to release the first of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” —a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These first two videos are shorts, about 5 minutes in length. One is about Free Will and the other is about Mereological Fallacies. The remaining …
By Jonathan Birch (See the other posts in this series here!) Part IV: Correlation and Explanation I’m really grateful to Hedda Hassel Mørch for writing such a thoughtful response. To rewind a little: my essay “Consciousness and the Overton window of science” was a series of reflections on the state …
By Hedda Hassel Mørch (See the other posts in this series here!) As Jonathan Birch points out, the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness (IIT) is an outlier in the field of consciousness studies. Other major theories, such as the Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNW), are clearly compatible with materialism (i.e., …
By Jonathan Birch (See the other posts in this series here!) Part II: The integrated information theory as outlier Part I traced the gradual entry of consciousness into the Overton window of science. I suggested that the rise of computational theories of consciousness, such as the global neuronal workspace theory, …
By Jonathan Birch (See the other posts in this series here!) Part I: Cognitive neuroscience as usual? In politics, the ‘Overton window‘ is the range of positions that can safely raise their heads in public discourse. Propose something outside the window and you can expect resistance—not just to the proposal …
