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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Mrs. Madarasz & Farkas

by Laszlo E. Szabo

23 years, 1 month

News from Science & Consciousness Review - Dreaming platypus

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Dear all, Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ NEWS Does the duck-billed platypus dream? - by Bernard J. Baars You can see a dog dreaming: it twitches and whines, and its eyes move in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In fact, dreaming in dogs and cats is quite similar to human dreaming. But a recent study of dream patterns in the duck-billed platypus, the odd-looking Australian marsupial, reveals an interesting surprise. Full text at: http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20030402.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - RADIO: Synapses and the Self - REVIEW: The cognitive revolution - BOOK REVIEW: Memory and Dreams - Unconscious actions in action-blindsight - NEW ISSUE: Brain and Mind See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES Editorial: Neurophenomenology: How to combine subjective experience with brain evidence http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030304.html Editorial: An Attention-Based Control Model of Consciousness (CODAM) http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20020601.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

23 years, 1 month

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, B. Láng

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu P h i l o s o p h y o f S c i e n c e C o l l o q u i u m Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ 28 April 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 B e n e d e k L á n g <mailto:mphlab01@phd.ceu.hu> Medieval Studies Department Central European University, Budapest Necromantia mint a hetedik szabad mu"vészet avagy a tanult mágia a középkori tudomány határain innen és túl (Necromantia as the seventh liberal art - learned magic fringing upon the medieval science ) Az arab szövegek latinra történo" átültetését célzó program, amely az Ibériai félsziget és Szicília 12. századi fordítóiskoláiban bontakozott ki, alapveto" változást és nem kevés zavart hozott az európai tudomány életébe. Egyfelo"l a keresztény nyugat szembesült az arab tudomány gazdagságával és felso"bbrendu" voltával, valamint igyekezett annak eredményeit asszimilálni, másfelo"l pedig az új tudással nem kevés olyan anyag is érkezett, amely elgondolkodásra késztette a nyugat filozófusait. A fordítók ugyanis a matematikai, csillagászati, optikai és orvosi traktátusokkal együtt (so"t nem ritkán ezeket félretéve) különösen szívesen fordították a divináció, a természetes mágia és a talizmán mágia alapszövegeit. Az új tudomány érkezése olyan helyzetet teremtett, amelyre talán nem túlzás a ?paradigmaváltás? kifejezést alkalmazni. Nem csupán azért, mert a természetro"l való tudás mennyisége drasztikusan megno"tt a jellege pedig megváltozott, hanem azért is, mert az új szövegek új kihívással szembesítették a nyugat tudósközösségeit: meg kellett határozni, hogy a tudásanyag mely része mino"sül elfogadhatónak és tudományosnak, és mit kell sürgo"sen kizárni a legitim tudományból, egyszóval állást kellett foglalni a demarkáció kérdésében. A helyzet átmeneti voltára jellemzo", hogy számunkra meglepo" tudástípusok is aspirálhattak a tudomány státuszra: a 12. század néhány oktatási kézikönyve a necromantia tudományát ? bármit is értettek e terminus alatt ? a hetedik szabad mu"vészetként, azaz az oktatás legalapveto"bb elemeként említette. Elo"adásomban 13. századi latin szerzo"k tudományklasszifikációit segítségül híva azt a mechanizmust igyekszem rekonstruálni, amelynek folyamán eldo"lt, hogy mely arab forrásból fordított mágiatípusok nyernek bebocsátást a hivatalos tudomány védo"bástyái közé, és melyek mino"sülnek veszélyes ? de nem megsemmisítendo", csupán félretéve mego"rzendo" ?tudásanyagnak. Ha vizsgálatunkat kiterjesztjük az egész középkorra, megfigyelhetjük, hogy amíg a ?mágia? terminus egyértelmu" elutasítás tárgya volt a kora középkorban, addig a korszak végére korlátozott mértékben lehetségessé vált egyes mágia formák mellett érvelni. A tanult mágia differenciálódásával és az egyes mágiatípusok elkülönülésével párhuzamosan, bizonyos mágiához kötheto" motívumok és teóriák ?pozitivizációjáról?, tudományossá szelídüléséro"l számolhatunk be. Úgy tu"nik, hogy nem csak a tudomány, de a mágia fogalma is történetileg változó, állandó mozgásban lévo" és dinamikus konstrukció, valamint, hogy végso" soron egy tágabb értelemben vett tudósközösség döntésén múlik, hogy mi számít egyetemi szinten oktatható tudásnak, és mi mino"sül veszélyes tévelygésnek. Ezek a következtetések persze nem okoznak meglepetést azoknak, akik figyelemmel követték az elmúlt húsz-harminc év tudományfilozófiai és tudásszociológiai fejleményeit. Azonban amíg e filozófiai tételek illusztrálására és alátámasztására rendszerint 17. századi vagy késo"bbi, modern példák szolgáltatnak történeti anyagot, addig én azt próbálom felderíteni, hogy hogyan lehet hasonló szempontok mentén újraolvasni a 13. század egyes vitáit, azaz hogyan lehet egy olyan korszakot vizsgálni, amely sokkal kevesebb tudománytörténeti és szociológiai információt hagyott ránk, és amelyhez összehasonlíthatatlanul nehézkesebb a hozzáférésünk. ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion.The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Home: (36-1) 200-7318 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 1 month

Workshop program: Cognitive modeling of agents and multi-agent interaction

by Ron Sun

Workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions August 9, 2003. Acapulco, Mexico (at IJCAI'2003) Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate a wide range of cognitive functionalities (such as a variety of memory/representation, various types of learning, and sensory motor capabilities) have been developed in both AI and cognitive science. In AI, they appear under the rubric of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. In cognitive science, they are often known as cognitive architectures. These strands of research provide useful paradigms for addressing some fundamental questions in AI and Cognitive Science. Artificial intelligence started out with the goal of designing functioning intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous difficulty of the task, the focus has largely been on modeling specific aspects of intelligence, often in highly restricted domains. Nevertheless, some researchers have focused on putting the pieces together with the goal of designing autonomous agents. More important, there is a growing interest in multi-agent interactions that addresses issues of coordination and cooperation among cognitive agents. On the other side, traditionally, the main focus of research in cognitive science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g., perception, memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modeling of cognitive architectures provide new avenues for precisely specifying complex cognitive processes in tangible ways, thereby addressing foundational questions in cognitive science. Such developments need to be extended to multi-agent interactions and there are promising developments in this regard (see e.g. recent papers in this area in the journal Cognitive Systems Research). Against this background, this workshop seeks to bring together cognitive scientists and AI researchers, with a wide range of background and expertise, to discuss research problems in understanding cognition at the individual level as well as at the collective level. Tentative Program August 9, 2003. Acapulco, Mexico 9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks Ron Sun Session 1: Cognitive Models of Physical and Social Environments (Chair: Ron Sun) 9:10 - 11:40 (30 minutes each) A Value-Laden Architecture for Intelligent Behavior Pat Langley Daniel Shapiro Meg Aycinema Michael Siliski Representational Content and Reciprocal Interplay Tibor Bosse Catholijn M. Jonker Jan Treur Cognitive Anatomy and Functions of Expectations Cristiano Castelfranchi Emiliano Lorini Obligations and Permissions as Mental Entities G. Boella L. van der Torre Finding Interaction Partners using Cognition-Based Decision Strategies Partha Sarathi Dutta Luc Moreau Nicholas R. Jennings Session 2: ACT-R Based Cognitive Modeling (Chair: P. Langley) 1:30 - 3:00 (30 minutes each) Cognitive Architectures, Game Playing, and Interactive Agents Robert L. West, Christian Lebiere, Teamwork, Communication, and Planning in ACT-R Brad Best Christian Lebiere Learning to Play Hide and Seek Greg Trafton Alan Schultz Dennis Perzanowski Bill Adams Magda Bugajska Nick Cassimatis Derek Brock Session 3: Short Presentations (Chair: Robert West) 3:00 - 4:45 (15 minutes each) Use of a 3D Gaming Environment for a Cognitive Agent John F. Santore Stuart C. Shapiro Design Agents in 3D Virtual Worlds Mary Lou Maher Greg Smith John Gero Function-Behaviour-Structure: A Model for Social Situated Agents John S. Gero Udo Kannengiesser Optimize or Adapt? Explore or Exploit? Let the Agent (Meta-)Decide Norberto Eiji Nawa BDI Architecture in the Framework of Situation Calculus Robert Demolombe Pilar Pozos Parra Reasoning by Assumption Tibor Bosse Catholijn M. Jonker Jan Treur An Integrative Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence Ben Goertzel Cassio Pennachin Andre Senna Thiago Maia Guilherme Lamacie Panel Discussion: Cognitive Modeling and Multi-Agent Systems---the Synergy 5:00 - 6:00 Chair: Ron Sun Panelists: Cristiano Castelfranchi Christian Lebiere Jan Treur Jonathan Gratch Contact IJCAI regarding registration and travel matters. See http://www.ijcai-03.org for details. See the workshop Web page at: http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/wsp03.html =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun, Ph.D James C. Dowell Professor CECS Department, 201 EBW phone: (573) 884-7662 University of Missouri-Columbia fax: (573) 882-8318 Columbia, MO 65211-2060 email: rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun ===================================================================

23 years, 1 month

Categorization: Summer Institute (Montreal)

by Stevan Harnad

Dear Dr. Qwerty, In the 12 days from June 30th to July 11 2003, Montreal will be the Categorization Capital of the Cognitive World. http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html The latest developments in all aspects of categorization will be described and debated across the cognitive sciences spectrum: cognitive anthropology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. The University of Quebec/Montreal will host this Cognitive Sciences Summer Institute. I hope you and your colleagues and students will attend and participate in this remarkable convergence. I've attached a sample of only a few of the over 50 speakers. For the full programme: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html Best wishes, Stevan Harnad. Canada Research Chair University of Quebec/Montreal Partial List: Categorization in cognitive neuroscience, Stephen Grossberg, Boston University Brain basis of category learning, John Gabrieli, Stanford University Categorization in linguistics, Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen Color categories across languages, Paul Kay, University of California at Berkeley Shape recognition, Irv Biederman, University of Southern California Object perception, Phil G. Schyns, University of Glasgow Category representation, Rob Nosofsky, Indiana University A state of the art on syntactic categories, Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University On categorisation and acquisition, Eve Clark, Stanford University Inferential theory of learning Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University Simulation and embodiment in situated conceptualization, Lawrence Barsalou, Emory University Category learning, Rob Goldstone, Indiana University Self-organizing vocabularies, Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Rome Analogical reasoning, Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University Categorisation and conceptual change, Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo A biological theory of empirical concepts, Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut On category change, Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge

23 years, 1 month

invitation

by Krisztina Biber

CEU Philosophy Department and ELTE cordially invite you to a public lecture by Harry Frankfurt Monday, 28 April, 5.30 PM- Popper room (Nador str. 9./room 102) "Some Mysteries of Love" Love, in which the will is constrained to a disinterested concern for the good of the beloved, is not necessarily a response to reasons or to value. It is a creator of reasons and of value: things become valuable to us because we love them, and our love means that we have reason to perform the actions that sustaining and promoting their good requires. The ultimate ground of practical normativity and practical reason lies, then, in the contingent necessities of love. These volitional necessities, far from impairing our freedom, are in fact themselves liberating. Harry Frankfurt is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, a past president of the American Philosophical Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He specializes in ethics and the history of philosophy, with particular emphasis on the problem of free will. His publications include the articles "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,", "Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility" and the books Demons, Dreamers and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes' Meditations; The Importance of What We Care About and Necessity, Volition and Love. *************************************************************************************************************************** CEU Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public lecture by Hilary Putnam 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room "Ethics Without Metaphysics" Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.

23 years, 2 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, B. Láng

by Laszlo E. Szabo

23 years, 2 months

Grush/The emulation theory of representation: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception by Rick Grush http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Grush/Referees/ 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 BBS Associates or suggested by a 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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception Rick Grush Department of Philosophy UCSD La Jolla, CA ABSTRACT: The 'emulation theory of representation', is developed and explored as a framework that can revealingly synthesize a wide variety of representational functions of the brain. The framework is based on constructs from control theory (forward models) and signal processing (Kalman filters). The idea is that in addition to simply engaging with the body and environment, the brain constructs neural circuits that act as models of the body and environment. During overt sensorimotor engagement, these models are driven by efference copies, in parallel with the body and environment, in order to provide expectations of the sensory feedback, and to enhance and process sensory information. These models can also be run off-line in order to produce imagery, estimate outcomes of different actions, and evaluate and develop motor plans. The framework is initially developed within the context of motor control, where it has been shown that inner models running in parallel with the body can reduce the effects of feedback delay problems. The same mechanisms can account for motor imagery as the off-line driving of the emulator via efference copies. The framework is extended to account for visual imagery as the off-line driving of an emulator of the motor-visual loop. I also show how such systems can provide for amodal spatial imagery. Perception, including visual perception, results from such models being used to form expectations of, and to interpret, sensory input. I close by briefly outlining other cognitive functions that can might also be synthesized within this framework, including reasoning, theory of mind phenomena, and language. KEYWORDS: efference copies, emulation theory of representation, forward models, Kalman filters, motor control, motor imagery, perception, visual imagery. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Grush/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Barbara Finlay Editor Jeffrey Gray Editor ------------------------------------------------------------------- Behavioral and Brain Sciences Cambridge University Press bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 2 months

Grush/The emulation theory of representation: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception by Rick Grush http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Grush/Referees/ 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 BBS Associates or suggested by a 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 reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception Rick Grush Department of Philosophy UCSD La Jolla, CA ABSTRACT: The 'emulation theory of representation', is developed and explored as a framework that can revealingly synthesize a wide variety of representational functions of the brain. The framework is based on constructs from control theory (forward models) and signal processing (Kalman filters). The idea is that in addition to simply engaging with the body and environment, the brain constructs neural circuits that act as models of the body and environment. During overt sensorimotor engagement, these models are driven by efference copies, in parallel with the body and environment, in order to provide expectations of the sensory feedback, and to enhance and process sensory information. These models can also be run off-line in order to produce imagery, estimate outcomes of different actions, and evaluate and develop motor plans. The framework is initially developed within the context of motor control, where it has been shown that inner models running in parallel with the body can reduce the effects of feedback delay problems. The same mechanisms can account for motor imagery as the off-line driving of the emulator via efference copies. The framework is extended to account for visual imagery as the off-line driving of an emulator of the motor-visual loop. I also show how such systems can provide for amodal spatial imagery. Perception, including visual perception, results from such models being used to form expectations of, and to interpret, sensory input. I close by briefly outlining other cognitive functions that can might also be synthesized within this framework, including reasoning, theory of mind phenomena, and language. KEYWORDS: efference copies, emulation theory of representation, forward models, Kalman filters, motor control, motor imagery, perception, visual imagery. http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Grush/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. BBS's new expanded page quota will make it possible for us to increase the number of books we treat per year, so this is an excellent time for BBS Associates and biobehavioral/cognitive scientists in general to nominate books you would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review. (Authors may self-nominate, but books can only be selected on the basis of multiple nominations.) It would be very helpful if you indicated in what way a BBS Multiple Book Review of the book(s) you nominate would be useful to the field (and of course a rich list of potential reviewers would be the best evidence of its potential impact!). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please note: Your email address has been added to our user database for Calls for Commentators, the reason you received this email. If you do not wish to receive further Calls, please feel free to change your mailshot status through your User Login link on the BBSPrints homepage, using your username and password. Or, email a response with the word "remove" in the subject line. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Barbara Finlay Editor Jeffrey Gray Editor ------------------------------------------------------------------- Behavioral and Brain Sciences Cambridge University Press bbs(a)bbsonline.org http://www.bbsonline.org -------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 2 months

News from Science & Consciousness Review --- A Nagelian Neurology of Consciousness?

by Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy

Dear all, Science & Consciousness Review ( http://psych.pomona.edu/scr ) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ THE PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS - NEW SECTION ON TESTABLE IDEAS ON CONSCIOUSNESS A Nagelian Neurology of Consciousness? - by Chris Nunn "The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility that Nagel's well-known account has implications for understanding the neural basis of consciousness. In a world assumed to be non-dualistic, it is argued that Nagel's view (i.e. that consciousness is what an organism possesses when there is something that it is like to be itself) implies that consciousness is an attribute of some system in the brain that maps patterns of spike train activity. Various considerations suggest that any such system is likely to operate on analog principles." Full text at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/theory/20030401.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - Nonconscious formation and reactivation of semantic associations - Conscious perception of brain states - Delusions of alien control in the normal brain - Out-of-body experiences: from Penfield to present - Embodied consciousness and Alzheimer's disease See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES Workshop on Crick & Koch's Framework for Consciousness Science: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/ww_framework.html Workshop on Stan Franklin's IDA Model http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/WW_IDAmodel.html Visit our archives at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/archive.html _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://psych.pomona.edu/scr/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor

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