VIII Madrid Science Week Monday 17th November 2008. From 10:15 to 11:15. University Carlos III of Madrid. Auditorio Leganés. Abstract: Robots are becoming a commodity and their domestic use will spread in the short term. The demanding human robot…
Year: 2008
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009 Announcement and Call for Papers Investigating Inner Experience Brain, Mind, Technology Hong Kong, China, June 11-14, 2009 www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC Long a meeting place for Eastern and Western ideas and the media capital of Asia, Hong…
Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2006/11/13 13:13 I’m about to finish reading the book Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett (1991). Although I have seen some critics against Dennett’s approach I think this book is a really valuable resource for…
Theatre of the Mind. Raising the curtain on consciousness. Jay Ingram (2005). Reviewed: 2007/09/18 13:13. This book by Jay Ingram is published by Harper Collins Canada (2005). This is the last book I’ve read about consciousness, and I can recommend…
The Making of Memory by Steven Rose This is not a book on consciousness but there is no doubt that memory is a fundamental component of mind. That’s the reason why I am also interested in the research of memory…
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter. As the theory about consciousness proposed by Douglas Hofstadter was being discussed here in Conscious-Robots.com forums and elsewhere, I decided to challenge again my genuinely engineering and scientific intellect with another dangerous…
Sources of Consciousness (Green, Triffet, 1997) I haven’t read this book (yet), but I think it could be interesting to some extend as it tries to cover the biophysical and computational roots of consciousness. From a quick look at the…
The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines by Pentti O. Haikonen Principal Scientist, Cognitive Technology, Nokia Research Imprint Academics. March 2003, 300 pp., ISBN 0907845428. Review of the book ‘The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines’ by Pentti O. Haikonen, Principal Scientist,…
JCS covers the following topics: – How does the mind relate to the brain? – Can computers ever be conscious? – What do we mean by subjectivity and the self? These questions are being keenly debated in fields as diverse…
Ron Chrisley Reader in Philosophy. Director, Center for Research in Cognitive Science. University of Sussex. Ron research interests include mind, computation, art, meaning, neural networks, reference, cognition, quantum computation, infant development, representation, artificial intelligence, non-conceptual content, consciousness, epistemology, animal mentality, subjectivity, systematicity, implict learning, concepts, intentionality, robots, psychology, spirituality, cognitive maps, mirrors, metaphysics, objectivity … Ron Chrisley Homepage….