what do researchers mean when they say they measure 'consciousness'? do they mean 1) subjective experiences, or 2) just general cognitive capacities?
to those who say 1, perhaps they think Alzheimer patients are zombies, or they are actually confusing 1 with 2
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went to the dentist to have old filling replaced with modern filling and my face is very numb...only problem is I keep feeling an itch on my lip/chin and when I scratch/rub it I feel nothing. The net result is a persistent itch I can't scratch...feels like itch is there but my chin is not. Not cool!
Nerds: This is basically an amazing open ended RPG set in important scenes in philosophical history.
Pedagogy nerds: This is like Reacting (to the Past) simulations but single player. And philosophy.
It’s not generic LLM generated but based on lots of research into academic and popular sources.
Last session of the MIT Consciousness Club 04/16! @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social will give a talk on "Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain". More information (including zoom link for those joining online) here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
I agree that it would have been better to have include some women scientists/philosophers.
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some April fools
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Can you spot the odd one out?
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out Reviewer-2'd my Reviewer 2 -new super power unlocked
The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....
The Unparalleled Majesty of Slo-lene never ceases to amaze me
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it's cool how you can raise a thinking, feeling being under torturous conditions, then kill it, dismember it, and cook it, and because this is all normal, when you post pictures of the results on here the good people of this website will be like "yes that is perfectly morally fine"
Kenneth Williford Live!
Join me for the thrilling conclusion of season 8 of Consciousness Live! with Kenneth Williford, Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, as we discuss the nature of self-consciousness, the role of representation and modeling in theorizing about…
To combat the heresy spread at the annual associationist meeting, the Association Association (philevents.org/event/show/1...), I propose a yearly meeting of Fodorians and other nativist thinkers. Naturally, we shall be called the Language of Thought League of Thinkers (the "LoT LoT").
www.youtube.com/shorts/hGCy1...
housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s
Eastern APA tenure track job interview, circa 1997
My course on consciousness is now online: six 90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too.
I speak in French (College de France oblige) but slides and subtitles are in English
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Vienna had its circle, New York had its Consciousness Collective
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Sam Coleman Live!
Join me for a discussion with Sam Coleman, lecturer at Birkbeck College University of London, as we discuss pan-qualityism, representation, consciousness, and a whole lot more! Sam's work on PhilPapers:
I am extremely proud of what Camilo, Moritz, and the whole team have put together for this year's Models of Consciousness #MoC7.
Stellar choice of topics and speakers, and an amazing social programme aimed at true exchange among participants.
Come join us! #ConSci Talk application is now open.
Cortical circuits are often thought to be specialized, but the same large-scale activity patterns can arise from different circuit architectures. In other words, different instruments can play the same tune, and the same instrument can sometimes play different tunes.
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P.s. I have to admit that I thought the guy in the photo was this guy and I was like, woah HE played for Nirvana????: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Be...
In some reference frame it was!
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@petemandik.bsky.social remember this gem? I forgot all about this! ...simpler times
@weinrobe.bsky.social no worries, I am somewhat like the Holy Roman Empire in that none of those terms really apply to me!
@weinrobe.bsky.social it is best to think of me as a "drummer" :)
Can't believe this is still up on YouTube!
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I think Fodor & Pylyshyn's 1988 paper is possibly the most mischaracterized paper in the history of cognitive science. It's often cited as arguing that neural networks cannot achieve systematicity, compositionality, and productivity. But that's not what they actually argue...
Katalin Balog Live!
Join me for a discussion with Katalin Balog, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University – Newark, as we discuss the metaphysics of consciousness and mind with a focus on Kati's Dialectical Monism or the view that dualism and physicalism are somehow both correct, illusionism…
