The St. Louis Synesthesia Research team has updated the website to include a blog on synesthesia. We hope to share the experiences of both having and researching this interesting condition. We are open to contributions from outside authors with an interest in synesthesia. Check out the first post by Kristian …
[cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!] Looking ahead to CO5, Daniel Dennett has agreed to give the keynote talk which is very exciting! There may be other surprises to come, so stay tuned! Stevan Harnad has allowed me to upload the videos of talks from his Turing Consciousness 2012 conference to my …
on a computational foundation for the study of cognition is now available online for free. (The link to O’Brien’s paper seems to be broken; hopefully it will be fixed soon.) The two subsequent special issues should be opened up shortly.
Next week I’m presenting a
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 …
