The next Life and Mind seminar is taking place Wed. the 29th of Aug., at 16:30 in room Pev1 1A01.
Mike will lead a discussion on heterophenomenology.
Abstract below.
Suggested reading:
“The Fantasy of First-Person Science”
The section on ‘Feenoman’ (see the index) in “Consciousness Explained” (shows what Dennett really thinks about qualia: he equates them to a story about [...]
The next Life and Mind seminar is taking place Wed. the 22nd of Aug., at 16:30 in room Pev1 1A01.
Miriam will lead a discussion on: An analysis of Reflexive Monism – Towards an “any-person’s” account on consciousness
In a nutshell, I am going to briefly present Velmans’ reflexive approach to consciousness and discuss his notion of [...]
Some interesting videos to be found in the Mind and reality conference website:
http://www.mindandreality.org/
They include talks by Evan Thompson, Owen Flanagan, Ned Block, etc.
Nice talk by Evan Thompson on emergence, self-organization and experience:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2330579300536983493
cheers,
Ezequiel
The next Life and Mind seminar is taking place tomorrow, Wed. the 15th of Aug., at 16:30 in room Pev1 0A2.
Joel will lead a discussion on enactive representationalism:
The question I would like to pose is this: despite all the technical and theoretical advances that have been made, it is still difficult to construct an artefact [...]
We were discussing worlds and ‘Umwelts’ at the pub, after the talk. I said maybe living in an Umwelt is somehow less than living in a ‘world’. People weren’t sure.
I’ve spotted where I (recently) picked this up from: A. D. Smith (The Problem of Perception, 2002, p.102-3). Apparently Gadamer and Heidegger both use the Welt/Umwelt distinction. And [...]
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