Archive for October, 2008

Seminar #41: Enactive Art

October 23, 2008

We will have a short special seminar before the Between Life&Mind&Art event. We will meet at 15:00-16:00 in Pev1 2A03 in order to warm up to the discussions of that evening.
Enactive Art
Visual artist Rosalyn Driscoll has spent the last 18 years exploring the sense of touch in the visual arts. She will show images of [...]

Seminar #40: Reaction-Diffusion systems and Models of Autopoiesis

October 21, 2008

This week there will be two consecutive sessions on Wed 22 Oct in room ARUNDEL-401 — come to one or both:
(1) ARUN-401 4pm-4:30pm ALERGIC Introductory meeting
(2) ARUN-401 4:30pm: Nathaniel Virgo on “Reaction-Diffusion systems and Models of Autopoiesis”
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(1) 4pm:
Alergic originally stands for Artificial LifE Reading Group In Cogs, but includes all sorts of interests around Evolutionary [...]

New paper on enactivism and the extended mind

October 16, 2008

Hi, I’ve just finished revising a contribution to a special issue of Topoi on the extended mind (edited by Julian Kiverstein and Andy Clark). This is the final draft. (I realise now I may need to add an abstract…). Comments very welcome.
Ezequiel
Di Paolo, E. A. (forthcoming). Extended Life, Topoi
Added: 24/10/08.
Thanks to Matthew Egbert for an [...]

Seminar #39: Minimal Agency Detection in Evolutionary Robotics Model and Experiments

October 6, 2008

We will have the first Life and Mind seminar of the new academic year on Friday, the 10th of Oct. 2008, 16:00-17:30, Room Pev. 1 2A02.
For this seminar we are pleased to announce that we will have Hiroyuki Iizuka from the Graduate school of Information Science & Technology, Osaka University, Japan, talk to us about:
Minimal [...]