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Toward a view of mind that is embodied, embedded, experiential, evolutionary, externalist...: e*. Lectures and writings by Ron Chrisley, on topics largely in the philosophy of cognitive science, in a variety of media (audio, video, PowerPoint, pdfs, txt). Featuring PodSlide technology that allows you to view lecture slides at the same time as hearing the lecture, automatically, in-sync, on any device that plays video files - even your iPhone or iPod!
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Making Predictive Coding More Predictive, More Enactive Ron Chrisley, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science & Dept of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK Presented at the 16th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Corn Exchange, Brighton, July 3rd, 16:30-18:30: Concurrent Session 2. Abstract: Predictive co…
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Helena de Preester using the Enactive Torch On Thursday the 26th and Friday the 27th of March, 2009, the e-sense project hosted the Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation Workshop at the University of Sussex. I was invited to speak at the workshop; my position statement (included below) serves as a good (if long) summary of my talk. Media: PodSlides: i…
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In August of 2010 I gave two lectures as part of the annual Summer School of the Swedish Graduate School in Cognitive Science (SweCog; see http://www.swecog.se/summerschool.shtml). I was invited to speak on the topic "Cognition (or Consciousness) and Non-Conceptual Content", so I devoted the first lecture to getting clear on the nature of concepts.…
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On November 11th, 2008, I gave a talk at the Royal Academy of Engineering as a part of the 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering. In the talk, entitled "Engineering For Conceptual Change: The Enactive Torch", I presented work done with Tom Froese at Sussex and Adam Spiers at Bristol. Abstract: In the Philosophy and Engineering community, ther…
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The first e* post of the new academic year is a first in another sense. Previously, all my postings here have been research lectures, about my own work. This post is of a lecture I gave on October 17th, 2006 as part of a Theoretical Philosophy course on the pioneering Consciousness Studies Program at the University of Skövde, Sweden. That is, it is…
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Epistemic blindspot sets: A resolution of Sorensen's strengthened paradox of the surprise examination
I am not officially a member of the Department of Philosophy at Sussex (I'm in the Department of Informatics and am the Director of COGS), so the fact that I was invited to speak at the Philosophy Department's Away Day on June 13th is evidence of the fact that the "HUMS Philosophers" and "COGS Philosophers" at Sussex maintain a good working relatio…
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Given April 7th 2006 in Tucson at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, this is really two talks in one. My attendance at the conference was made possible in part by grant OCG43170 from the British Academy; I am grateful for their support. Abstract: In a recent paper (Bishop 2002), Bishop argues against computational explanations of consciousness…
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This is a lecture I gave at Goldsmiths College in London on May 16th 2006 as part of a Workshop on Computational Models of Creativity in the Arts. In the talk, I give the nine axioms that constitute my approach to creating systems that exhibit creativity. The axioms are: Axiom 1: If you make your robot pleasure-seeking, and make creativity pleasura…
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