Seminar #27: Life and its close relatives

The next Life and Mind seminar will take place on the 31st of Oct. in room Pev1 2A01 at 16:30.
Nathaniel Virgo and Simon McGregor will be leading a discussion on:
Life and Its Close Relatives
IT’S ALIVE!!! (Sort of.) We propose that dissipative structures and the production of entropy should be part of the A-Life research
programme, explaining [...]

New web resource

There’s a new web resource available! I quote from their site:
“This is a bibliography of work in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the science of consciousness. It consists of 18112 entries, and is divided into 8 parts, each of which is further divided by topic and subtopic. Both online and [...]

Slides for Seminar 26

Some people have requested copies of the slides of my talk yesterday (again, apologies for locked room and faulty projector). Animations won’t work in this pdf version, unfortunately.
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Cheers,
Ezequiel

Conference dates 2008

I made a schedule of important event dates for next year that might be of interest to everyone, arranged according to submission deadlines:

Name
Conf. Dates
Deadline
Website

Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC2008)
8-12 April
1 Nov.
link

Evolutionary Computation (Evo2008)
26-28 March
1 Nov.
link

Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB)
7-12 July
14 Jan.
link

Genetic and Evo. Computation (GECCO)
12-16 July
16 Jan.
link

Artificial Life XI
5-8 Aug.
29 Feb.
link

And then there is also [...]

Seminar #26: Exploring the continuity between life and mind

The next Life and Mind seminar will take place on Wed., Oct. 17th, 16:30 – 18:00, in room ARUN401.
For the first Life and Mind meeting this term, Ezequiel Di Paolo will be speaking on:
Exploring the continuity between life and mind: or more ways to upset a closet cognitivist.
Enactivism (Varela et al 1991, Thompson, 2007) articulates [...]