koglist March 1996

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17 participants
32 discussions

by Kata Bimbo

Kedves Koglista1sok, Az u1j amerikai cenzu1ra;) to2rve1nyhez egy kis adale1k: Eliza (=a pszichoterapeuta program) kicsit buta1bb lesz..... [az emacsben biztosan] Kellemes szo1rakoza1st! --Mint lejjebb kiderul, itt vannak (szigoru1an bennszu2lo2ttek;), akii u1jabban pa1rhuzamot ve1lnek felfedezni az USA e1s a Ki1nai Ne1pko2zta1rsasa1g szo1la1s szabadsa1got e1rinto3 inte1zkede1sei ko2zo2tt..... 1es etto3l keve1sse1 vida1mak:|. U2dv, =kata= ------------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:36:57 +0100 From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gsyc.inf.uc3m.es> To: info-gnu-emacs(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Censoring GNU Emacs Censoring My Software Richard Stallman [From Datamation, March 1 1996] Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to "prohibit pornography" on the Internet. Last fall, the right-wing Christians made this cause their own. Last week, President Clinton signed the bill. This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs. No, GNU Emacs does not contain pornography. It's a software package, an award-winning extensible and programmable text editor. But the law that was passed applies to far more than pornography. It prohibits "indecent" speech, which can include anything from famous poems, to masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex . . .to software. Naturally, there was a lot of opposition to this bill. Not only from people who use the Internet and people who appreciate erotica, but from everyone who cares about freedom of the press. But every time we tried to tell the public what was at stake, the forces of censorship responded with a lie: They told the public that the issue was simply pornography. By embedding this lie as a presupposition in their other statements about the issue, they succeeded in misinforming the public. So now I am censoring my software. You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous "doctor program," a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor Weizenbaum at MIT. This is the program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist. The user talks to the program, and the program responds--by playing back the user's own statements, and by recognizing a long list of particular words. The Emacs doctor program was set up to recognize many common curse words and respond with an appropriately cute message such as, "Would you please watch your tongue?" or "Let's not be vulgar." In order to do this, it had to have a list of curse words. That means the source code for the program was indecent. So this week I removed that feature. The new version of the doctor doesn't recognize the indecent words; if you curse at it, it replays the curse back to you--for lack of knowing better. (When the new version starts up, it announces that it has been censored for your protection.) Now that Americans face the threat of two years in prison for indecent network postings, it would be helpful if they could access precise rules for avoiding imprisonment via the Internet. However, this is impossible. The rules would have to mention the forbidden words, so posting them on the Internet would violate those same rules. Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what "indecent" means. I have to do this, because nobody knows for sure. The most obvious possible meaning is the meaning it has for television, so I'm using that as a tentative assumption. However, there is a good chance that our courts will reject that interpretation of the law as unconstitutional. We can hope that the courts will recognize the Internet as a medium of publication like books and magazines. If they do, they will entirely reject any law prohibiting "indecent" publications on the Internet. What really worries me is that the courts might choose a muddled half-measure--by approving an interpretation of "indecent" that permits the doctor program or a statement of the decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that any child can browse through in the public library. Over the years, as the Internet replaces the public library, some of our freedom of speech will be lost. Just a few weeks ago, another country imposed censorship on the Internet. That was China. We don't think well of China in this country--its government doesn't respect basic freedoms. But how well does our government respect them? And do you care enough to preserve them here? If you care, stay in touch with the Voters Telecommunications Watch. Look in their Web site http://www.vtw.org/ for background information and political action recommendations. Censorship won in February, but we can beat it in November. Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman. Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.

30 years, 1 month

Language and thought conference

by Gergely Csibra

LANGUAGE and THOUGHT an interdisplinary conference organised by The Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies University of Sheffield 26-29 June 1996 VENUE Ranmoor House Hall of Residence, Shore Lane, Fulwood Road, Sheffield, S10 3AY. Tel.: 0114 268 6656 Fax.: 0114 267 1709 TRAVEL By TAXI from the City Station (make sure you ask for Ranmoor House, not Ranmoor Hall which is some distance away). By BUS from the City Station. Take the Number 60 bus, getting off at Shore Lane, on the Fulwood Road. By CAR: travel through the city and past the University, following directions for Manchester. When you get to the main lights beyond the Broomhill shops, don't turn right up the Manchester Road (or if you do, turn left again down Shore Lane shortly thereafter), but carry along the Fulwood Road, past the Forte Crest Hotel, then turning right into Shore Lane. There is a sign indicating Ranmoor House at the turning. CONFERENCE COST AND PAYMENT RESIDENT: stlg135 (includes bed and breakfast for three days, lunches, dinners, coffees, hire of equipment, and conference fee of stlg20) NON-RESIDENT: stlg85 (as above, but less cost of bed and breakfast) Unfortunately, conference costs cannot be broken down further. All those attending the conference must pay at one or other of the above rates, irrespective of the actual duration of their attendance. PAYMENT should be in pounds sterling, by cheque drawn on a UK bank or by Eurocheque. If paying by cheque drawn on an overseas bank, add stlg8 for processing. Paper abstracts will be e-mailed to all those registered for the conference one-to-two weeks beforehand. A tear-off registration form is attached. Registration is not valid until payment has been received. DRAFT CONFERENCE PROGRAMME The conference will place much greater emphasis on debate and discussion than is usual. All sessions will have at least half of the available time set aside for open discussion. All sessions will start promptly at the times indicated. Wednesday 26 June 11-2 Arrival and registration. Lunch will be available for purchase from the Snack Bar. 2-3.30 Session 1 Susan Goldin-Meadow (Psychology, Chicago) 'Evidence from the signings of pre-conventional-language deaf children' 3.30-4 tea 4-6 Session 2 Juan-Carlos Gomez (Psychology, St Andrews) 'The co-evolution of language and social cognition' Barry Smith (Philosophy, Birkbeck) 'Is language necessary for thoughts about thoughts?' 6-7.30 dinner 7.30-9 Session 3 Annette Karmiloff-Smith (MRC-CDU, London) 'Rethinking innateness and modularity: a developmental perspective is not only necessary, it is crucial' 9-11.30 bar Thursday 27 June 7.30-9 breakfast 9-11 Session 4 Jill Boucher (Speech Science, Sheffield) 'Developmental language difficulties and their bearing on models of language acquisition' Yorick Wilks (Computer Science, Sheffield) 'Penrose on consciousness and the place of language in cognition' 11-11.30 coffee 11.30-1 Session 5 Andy Clark (Cognitive Science, Washington MO) 'Magic words: how language augments human computation' 1-2.30 lunch 2.30-4.30 Session 6 Peter Carruthers (Philosophy, Sheffield) 'Thinking in language?: a plethora of possibilities; a paucity of evidence' Gabriel Segal (Philosophy, KCL) 'Title to be announced' 4.30-5 tea 5-7 Session 7 Rosemary Varley (Speech Science, Sheffield) 'Aphasic language and aphasic thought' Christopher Hookway (Philosophy, Sheffield) 'Cognition and the logic of questions' 7-8 reception 8-9.30 dinner 9.30-11.30 bar Friday 28 June 7.30-9 breakfast 9-11 Session 8 Mick Perkins (Speech Science, Sheffield) 'The Compensations of an Unbalanced Mind: a cognitive-interactive account of disorders of language and thought' Stephen Laurence (Philosophy, Manchester) 'Convention-based versus a Chomskian approach to semantics' 11-11.30 coffee 11.30-1 Session 9 Josef Perner (Psychology, Salzburg) 'The metarepresentational nature of the central executive' 1-2.30 lunch 2.30-4 Session 10: Poster sessions >From 1-4 pm a short coach trip into the Derbyshire Peak District will be available, with a packed lunch, for those wishing to feast their eyes and clear their heads. Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to take this option. 4-4.30 tea 4.30-6 Session 11 Neil Smith (Linguistics, UCL) and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli (Linguistics, Cambridge) 'Modules and quasi-modules: evidence from a polyglot savant' 6-7.30 dinner 7.30-9 Session 12: Dan Sperber (CREA, Paris) and Deirdre Wilson (Linguistics, UCL) 'The Mapping Between the Mental and the Public Lexicon' 9-11.30 bar Saturday 29 June 7.30-9 breakfast 9-11 Session 13 Stevan Harnad (Psychology, Southampton) 'Narrow content and the task of psychology' Peter Hobson (Tavistock Clinic, London) 'The interpersonal foundations of symbolic thinking and language' 11-11.30 coffee 11.30-1 Session 14 Daniel Dennett (Philosophy, Tufts) 'Title to be announced' 1-2 lunch 2- depart RESIDENTS REMEMBER TO RETURN YOUR KEYS ________________________________________________ REGISTRATION FORM Please tear off and return the completed form, with payment, to: Professor Peter Carruthers, L&T conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. Name: affiliation: Full postal address: e-mail: Conference Fee (either resident or non-resident) Non-resident: stlg 85* Resident: stlg 135* Late registration fee: stlg 10* (if registering after 1st June 1996) Clearance fee: stlg 8* (if not paying by cheque on UK bank or by Eurocheque) Total stlg sterling Vegetarian diet* Coach trip to Derbyshire Peaks* Cheque enclosed* (payable to THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD) I plan to attend the L&T conference in Sheffield, and enclose payment. signed _______________________ date * please tick as appropriate ______________________________________________________ Professor Peter Carruthers Department of Philosophy University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN, UK tel.: (+44) (0)114 282 4876 fax.: (+44) (0)114 279 8760

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Mailing List: Psychology of the Internet (fwd)

by Gabor Ujvari

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John M. Grohol Psy.D. <grohol(a)coil.com> Newsgroups: sci.psychology.announce,sci.psychology.misc,sci.cognitive,alt.usenet.surveys,sci.med,sci.med.psychobiology,alt.psychology.help,alt.support Subject: Mailing List: Psychology of the Internet Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:50:16 -0500 Organization: Mental Health Net Psychology of the Internet: Reasearch & Theory ---------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce the creation of a mailing list to discuss research and theory on the psychology of the Internet. The topics that are appropriate to this list are broadly defined, but can include such things as: - How to conduct psychological research via the Internet - Theory behind virtual support groups - On-line psychotherapy - "Internet Addiction Disorder" - Psychology of various on-line phenomenon, such as flame wars, relationships, etc. To subscribe to this mailing list, send a one-line e-mail (leaving the subject blank) to: listproc(a)cmhc.com In your e-mail, please include the line: subscribe research Your-name (replacing "Your-name" with your real name). A list of valid commands can be obtained by sending a one-line email to the above address with the word "help" in it. The mailing list's submission address is: research(a)cmhc.com All who are interested in participating in this type of discussion are encouraged to subscribe. It is polite to send an introductory message to the list introducing yourself, a little bit about your background, and what you might hope to gain from participation on the list. Cheers, -John -- Mental Health Net: http://www.cmhc.com/ 'Your Psychology Source.' -- Gabor Ujvari | Institute for Psychology, Budapest, HUNGARY ujvari(a)cogpsyphy.hu | Tel.: (36) 1 153-3244 Fax: (36) 1 269-2972

30 years, 1 month

L. Bonnatti readere

by GYoRI Miklos

Tisztelt erdeklodok, elkeszult a mar olyan regen megigert reader, melyet Luca Bonnatti szerkesztett, cime The Psychology and Philosophy of Deductive Reasoning. (Mint korabban mar jeleztuk, Bauer, Johnson-Larid, Braine et al., Ford, Franklin es Tversky, Rips, Shastri es Ajjanagadde munkai kozul tartalmaz 10 fontos irast, az 1984-1995 idoszakbol.) Korabbi hirdetmenyunknek megfeleloen, a kurzuson (95 oszen) kreditert reszt vevo diakok ingyen megkapjak a kotetet, ha kerik, egyebkent pedig 1000 ft (onkoltseg alatti) aron barki rendelhet belole. Kerem tehat, akik igenyt tartanak ra, jelezzek ezt a gyori(a)izabell.elte.hu emailen, s azt is, mikent juttathato el hozzajuk az olvasokonyv.. Egy komputervirusnak koszonhetoen sajnos a korabbi megrendelesi lista ELVESZETT, kerem tehat, hogy akik mar kuldtek megrendelest, es fenntartjak azt, kuldjenek ismet - s elnezest ezert a kenyelmetlensegert. (Az eredeti listabol rekonstrualhato Barkoczi Ilona, Dragana Nikolajevic,, Komlosi Laszlo Imre, Mero Laszlo es Pleh Csaba neve. Oket arra kerem, csak akkor kuldjenek emailt, ha mar nem tartjak fenn a megrendelest.) Meg egyszer elnezest az erintettektol ezert a bonyodalomert, udvozlettel, Gyori Miklos. PS: A readerrel kapcsolatos kerdesekre termneszetesen szivesen valaszolok.

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legujabb elektrobibliografia updata Hernad Istvan kurzusahoz

by PLEH＠IZABELL.elte.hu

> [University of Southampton] > > EXPLAINING THE MIND (PY104) > > Instructor: > Stevan Harnad: harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk > > Teaching Assistants: > Matt Dye: mdye(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk > Sharon Holmes: shh(a)isvr.soton.ac.uk > Andie Lees: aml(a)psy.soton.ac.uk > > TUTORIAL LIST AND TIMETABLE > > Student Skywriting Archive > > [Image] Skyreading: Papers held locally > > The following articles are available, locally: > > Bates, Elizabeth (1994). > Modularity, Domain Specifity and the Development of Language > > Bates, Elizabeth & Elman, J. L. > "Connectionism and the study of change" > > Bates, Elizabeth & Carnevale, George F. (1993). > "New Directions in Research on Language Development" > > Bar, M. & Biederman, I. > "One-Shot Viewpoint Invariance in Matching Novel Objects" > > Caselli, Maria Cristina, et al. (1995). > "A Cross-Linguistic Study of Early Lexical Development" > > Dennett, Daniel C. > Cognitive Science as Reverse Engineering: Several Meanings of > "Top-Down" and "Bottom-Up" > > Is Perception the 'Leading Edge' of Memory? > > The Practical Requirements for Making a Conscious Robot > > Time and the Observer: the Where and When of Consciousness in the > Brain > > Freeman, Walter J. > Commentary on "The Mystery of Consciousness" > > Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F. and Sherman, S. J. > "Imagination Inflation: Imagining a Childhood Event Inflates > Confidence that it Occurred" > > Johnson-Laird, P. N. and Savary, Fabien. > Illusory Inferences about Probabilities > > Loftus, Elizabeth > The Formation of False Memories > > Mandler, George > Consciousness redux > > Markman, Ellen M. > Constraints on Word Learning: Speculations about their Nature, > Origins, and Domain Specificity > > Merikle, Philip M. > Psychological Investigations of Unconscious Perception > > Millikan, Ruth G. > CHAPTER SEVEN: What is Behavior? > > Nosofsky, Robert M. & Palmeri, Thomas J. > "Learning to Classify Integral-Dimension Stimuli" > > Nosofsky, Robert M. et al. > "Comparing Models of Rule-Based Classification Learning: A > Replication and Extension of Shepard, Hovland, and Jenkins > (1961)" > > Nosofsky, Robert M. > Similarity Scaling and Cognitive Process Models" > > Pinker, Steven > "Language Acquisition" > > Natural Language and Natural Selection > > Posner M.E. & Raichle, M.R.I. > Images of Mind (Precis) > (click here or here for PET images) > Posner Eprint Archive in Oregon > > Searle, John R. > "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?" > > "The Problem of Consciousness" > > [Image] The following articles are only available as Postscript > files. They may be printed directly or viewed with a package > such as Ghostscript, if available. > > Pylyshyn, Zenon W. > "The Role of Cognitive Architecture in Theories of Cognition" > > "Rules and Representations: Chomsky and Representational Realism" > > "What's in the Mind: Constraints on Mental Structures" > > "Computing in Cognitive Science" > > [Image] Papers from outside Southampton > > The following are links to articles held at other sites: > > Elman, Jeff (University of Clifornia - San Diego, USA) > > * Wiles, J., & Elman, J. (1995). Learning to count without a > counter: A case study of dynamics and activation landscapes in > recurrent networks. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual > Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT > Press. HTML viewable version; Compressed postscript source. > * Hare, M., & Elman, J.L. (1994). Learning and morphological > change. Cognition. HTML viewable version; Compressed tar archive > of postscript sources. > * Nolfi, S., Elman, J.L., & Parisi, D. (1994). Learning and > evolution in neural networks. Adaptive Behavior, 3:1, 5-28. > Compressed postscript source. > * Elman, J.L. (1993). Learning and development in neural networks: > The importance of starting small. Cognition, 48, 71-99. > Compressed postscript source. > * Bates, E., & Elman, J.L. (1993). Connectionism and the study of > change. In M.H. Johnson (Ed.), Brain Development and Cognition: A > Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 623-642. HTML viewable > version. > * Elman, J. L. (1991). Distributed representations, simple > recurrent networks,and grammatical structure. Machine Learning, > 7, 195-224. Compressed postscript source. > > Freeman, Walter J. ( Neurophysiology Lab - Berkeley, USA) > > * The Physiology of Perception from the February 1991 Scientific > American, Vol 264, (2) Pgs. 78-85 > * Qualitative Overview of Population Neurodynamics > * Chaos in the CNS: Theory and Practice, published in the book: > Flexibility and Constraint in Behaviorial Systems > > Siegel, Ralph M. (Rutgers, USA) > > * Siegel, R.M. and Read, H.L., Models of the temporal dynamics of > visual processing. J. Statistical Physics 70:297-308 (1993).Paper > here > > * Siegel, R.M. Seat of the will a review of Bright Air, Brilliant > Fire: on the Matter of Mind by Gerald Edelman, BioScience > 43:712-715 (1993) > * Paper here > > * Siegel, R.M., "Discovery of structure from motion in monkey, man > and machine" in Neural Information Processing Systems, ed. D.Z. > Anderson, American Institute of Physics, New York (1988). > * Paper here > > * Siegel, R.M. and Andersen, R.A., Perception of three-dimensional > structure from two-dimensional motion in monkey and man. Nature > vol. 331, pp. 259-261 (1988). > * Paper here > > Abstracts > > * K.C. Anderson* and R.M. Siegel. Neuronal response to optic flow > patterns in STPa in the behaving macaque. Soc. Abstr. Neurosci. > vol 21 (1995) Paper here > > * Anderson, K.C, Csicvari, J.L., Siegel, R.M. and Nogueira, C.A.M. > Structure from motion perception, hysteresis and neurontropy. > Soc. Abstr. Neurosci. vol 20 (1994).Paper here > > * Nogueira, C.A.M. and Siegel, R.M. Relevance of contour, motion > and disparity cues in the recognition of complex objects. Soc. > Abstr. Neurosci. vol 20 (1994)..Paper here > > * Siegel, R.M. and Read, H.L. Egocentric motion from optic flow and > eye position in area 7a of the behaving macaque. Soc. Abstr. > Neurosci. vol 20 (1994).Paper here > > * Read, H.L., Anderson, K.C, Nogueiram C.A.M. and Siegel, R.M. > Space cells in the dorsal stream: optic flow selectivity in area > 7a.Soc. Abstr. Neurosci. vol 20 (1994)..Paper here > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Last modified: 20th March 1996 > Matt Hemus

30 years, 1 month

Color Categorisation: BBS Call for Commentators

by harnad＠cogsci.soton.ac.uk

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article about: CONSTRAINTS ON COLOUR CATEGORIZATION by B.A.C. Saunders & J. van Brakel This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to: bbs(a)soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous ftp (or gopher or World-Wide-Web) according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. [The archived version will be retrievable as of Monday 25 March.] ____________________________________________________________________ ARE THERE NON-TRIVIAL CONSTRAINTS ON COLOUR CATEGORIZATION? B.A.C. Saunders & J. van Brakel Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Leuven Tiensestraat 102 3000 Leuven (Belgium) e-mail pop00127(a)cc5.kuleuven.ac.be Institute of Philosophy University of Leuven Kardinaal Mercierplein 2 3000 Leuven (Belgium) KEYWORDS: colour, categorization, universals, unique hues, opponent processes, linking propositions ABSTRACT: In this target article the following hypotheses are discussed: (1) colour is autonomous: a perceptuo-linguistic and behavioural universal; (2) it is completely described by three independent attributes: hue, brightness and saturation; (3) phenomenologically and psychophysically there are four unique hues: red, green, blue, yellow; (4) the unique hues are underpinned by two opponent psychophysical and/or neuronal channels: red/green, blue/yellow. The relevant literature is reviewed. We conclude: [i] psychophysics and neurophysiology fail to set nontrivial constraints on colour categorization; [ii] linguistic evidence provides no grounds for the universality of basic colour categories; [iii] neither the opponent hues red/green, blue/yellow nor hue, brightness and saturation are intrinsic to a universal concept of colour; (iv) colour is not autonomous. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from ftp.princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is bbs.saunders). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. ------------------------------------------------------------- These files are also on the World Wide Web and the easiest way to retrieve them is with Netscape, Mosaic, gopher, archie, veronica, etc. Here are some of the URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs.html http://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/bbs.html gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.saunders ftp://cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.saunders To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.saunders When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit ---------- Where the above procedure is not available there are two fileservers: ftpmail(a)decwrl.dec.com and bitftp(a)pucc.bitnet that will do the transfer for you. To one or the other of them, send the following one line message: help for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or bitftp will then execute for you). -------------------------------------------------------------

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(Fwd) Eike von Savigny

by CZACHESZ, Gyongyi

Eike von Savigny professzor (Universitaet Bielefeld) kollokviumsorozata: The Essentially Social Character of Humans in Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" (ELTE BTK, 1052 Bp. Piarista koez 1.) Apr. 10. 13.00-16.00 ora, A ep. felem. 2. (Bence prof. szobaja) "Rule Following - Use and Meaning" Apr. 11. 13.30-16.30 ora, I. em. 2. (Szimb. Logika Tsz. koenyvtara) "Verbal Expression of the Inner" Apr. 12. 13.00-16.00 ora, A ep. felem. 2. (Bence prof. szobaja) "Social Determination of the Inner"

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Thomas Sebeok

by CZACHESZ, Gyongyi

INVITATION Thomas A. Sebeok (Indiana University, USA) REALITY OR ILLUSION The Clever Hans Effect Tuesday, March 26, 1996 6 p.m. Collegium Budapest (1014 Budapest, Szentharomsag u. 2.)

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emlekezteto Hernad Istvan kurzusara

by PLEH＠IZABELL.elte.hu

Dear Colleagues, this is of course only a reminder. Please also note the site where you can get the papers. I am also forwarding a separate message about this. Csaba Pleh > Prof. STEVAN HARNAD > > EXPLAINING THE MIND (PS-KK16.24, PS-430.46) > > 25-29. March, 1996 > > Arrangement of the classes: > March 25th, Mon.: 4.30-6.30 pm, #405 > March 26th, Tue.: 4-6 pm, #301 > March 27th, Wed.: 4-6 pm, #201 > March 28th, Thu.: 4.30-6.30 pm, #301 > March 29th, Fri.: 4-6 pm, #405 > > The natural way to try to explain the mind is by looking into it. This > method is called introspection, and we all do it whenever we think about > thinking. The only problem is that no explanation has ever come out of > this. We have no idea at all how we perceive, think, understand, > remember. If we did have any idea, cognitive psychology would be easy; > we could all do it by sitting in our armchairs observing our minds. It's > not quite that easy, though, because the real workings of our minds are > unconscious: We can't observe them. We can only observe their effects, > in what we do and feel. So the real question is: How are we able to do > and feel all the things we can do and feel? > > Explaining what we can do seems as if it would be the easier part, but > it turns out to be devilishly difficult; all we have so far is tiny > parts of the puzzle. And the feeling part turns out be more difficult > still, because it gets us entangled in some deep philosophical problems, > especially the "mind/body" problem: Everyone can can see what you do, > but only you can feel what you feel, so how can everyone agree on an > explanation? > > Among the things you can do is to see, hear, use, name, and describe the > many things around you in the world. We will examine explanations of how > your mind manages to do all this: theories of perception, learning, > categorisation, and language. We will discuss how things are represented > in your mind. We will look especially closely at mental images: Do they > explain how we think? Or should we look at how the brain works? Or do > machines that can do some of the things we can do give us a clue? Are we > like machines? > > In the background of all of this will be consciousness: If the hard work > is done unconsciously, what good is consciousness? Do we really have a > choice, or do our brains and biology dictate it all? And if they dictate > the humdrum things, like how we see red and how we remember names and > faces, do they also explain our creative moments, when we think of > something no one else has ever thought of? > > The mind has not yet been explained. But the basic questions have now > been raised. And we think we also have the right means to begin > answering them. You will learn the unfolding details of these answers in > later courses in cognitive psychology. In this course we will focus on > the questions, the means, and the directions in which they promise to > take us. > > LECTURE 1: > > From Introspectionism to Behaviourism to Cognitivism: > Psychology in Search of a Method > > What is special about psychology is that it deals with the mental and > not just the physical. Yet the history of psychology is one of a very > uneasy relation with the mental. > > The Mind/Body Problem Continues to Beset Psychology > > It is no wonder that psychologists had trouble with the mental in the > short lifetime of their field. Philosophers have been struggling with it > for centuries. > > LECTURE 2: > > Is the Brain the Solution? > > One natural place to turn in order to shake loose from the mind/body > problem is the brain. And the brain reveals some remarkable > "disconnections" in mental function. But is it the way to understand the > mind? > > The Mind's Eye: Mental Imagery and Its Discontents > > The debate about the role of mental imagery virtually created the field > of cognitive psychology. Is "I did it in my head using images" a > cognitive explanation? > > LECTURE 3: > > Mental Models I: Are Mental States Computer States? > > The most powerful theory of thinking at the moment is that it is some > form of computation. What is computation? And can thinking be that? > > Mental Models II: Or Are Mental States States in a Neural Net? > > The strongest rival to the theory that thinking is computation is that > it is the activity in an interconnected neural network. What can be > said for and against that view? > > LECTURE 4: > > Learning and Categorisation > > How does the "blooming, buzzing confusion" we are born into get sorted > out into the many objects and events we can recognise and name? > > Language and Representation > > How are the categories we recognise and name represented in our heads? > And what is language, that it allows us to communicate them to one > another? > > LECTURE 5: > > Our Darwinian Past > > How unique is thinking and mental function to our own species? Can our > evolutionary past help explain our minds? > > Consciousness Faced Head-On > > Can consciousness be investigated directly? Can we measure when a mental > event happens? What causal role does consciousness play? > > Readings are available electronically from: > > http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ > >

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