Past Meetings



Meeting 29

Daniel Pollen | Friday, April 16th, 2010. 4-6pm.
"On the Emergence of Primary Visual Perception"
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Meeting 28

Selmer Bringsjord | March 26, 2010
When it Comes to Understanding Human-Level Intelligence and Consciousness, the Blue Brain Project is a Prodigious Waste of Time
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Meeting 27

Peter Kugel | February 24, 2010
Minds may be computers but…
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Meeting 30

Ed Boyden | Tuesday, April 27, 2009. 4-6pm.
Engineering Consciousness: An Interactive Workshop
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Meeting 25

David Gamez | Thursday, October 29, 2009. 4-6pm.
The Science of Human and Machine Consciousness
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Meeting 26

Patrick Cavanagh | Tuesday, December 1, 2009. 4-6pm.
The Position Sense
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Meeting 24

Jeremy Wolfe | Friday, October 23rd, 2009. 4-6pm.
"Bags, breasts, and lots of little cells: New adventures in visual search"
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Meeting 23

Michael Tye | Friday, September 18th, 2009. 4-6PM
"Attention!"
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Meeting 22

Alva Noe | Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. 4-6PM
"Out of Our Heads"
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Meeting 21

David Chalmers | Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. 4-6PM
"The Extended Mind, Revisited"
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Meeting 20

Alex Byrne and Pawan Sinha | Wednesday, March 18th, 2009. 4-6PM
On Molyneaux's Problem
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Meeting 19

Steve Grossberg | Wednesday, February 18th, 2009. 4-6PM
"How to Link Mind to Brain: Towards Solving the Mind/Body Problem"
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Meeting 18

Christof Koch | Tuesday, February 10th, 2009. 4-6PM
Consciousness and Attention: Related but Distinct Processes
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Meeting 17

Ted Gibson | Monday, February 23rd, 2009. 4-6PM.
Sentence and text comprehension: Evidence from human language processing
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Meeting 16

Susanna Siegel (Harvard University) | Thursday, December 11th, 2008. 4-6PM
"What Do We See?"
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Meeting 15

Georg Northoff (University of Magdeburg, Germany) | Thursday, November 20th, 2008. 6-8PM
"The Self and its Brain - A Neurophilosophical Account"
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Meeting 14

Hakwan Lau (Columbia University) | Monday, October 6th, 2008. 4-6PM
"Visual Awareness and the Dynamic Threshold Hypothesis"
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Meeting 13

Peter Cariani (Harvard University) | Wednesday, September 17th, 2008. 4-6PM
"Organizational closure through neuronal signal regeneration as a possible basis for conscious awareness"
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Meeting 12

Takeo Watanabe | Tuesday, April 19, 2008. 4-6PM
"Processing of invisible signals informs the processing of consciousness"
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Meeting 11

John Symons | Friday, April 18, 2008. 4-6PM
"Pain and Embodiment"
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Meeting 10

Justin Broackes | Tuesday, March 18, 2008. 4-6PM
"What do the Colorblind See?"
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Meeting 9

Sean Kelly | Wednesday, February 27, 2008. 4-6PM
"Content and Constancy"
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Meeting 8

Jeremy Wolfe | Tuesday, January 29, 2008. 3:30-5:30PM
"What can Visual Attention Tell us About Consciousness and Volition?"
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Meeting 7

Moshe Bar | Tuesday, November 27, 2007. 4-6PM
"The Proactive Brain: Using Analogies and Associations to Generate Predictions"
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Meeting 6

Dan Schacter | Tuesday, October 16, 2007. 4-6PM
"The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: Remembering the past and imagining the future"
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Meeting 5

Carolyn Suchy-Dicey | Tuesday, September 18, 2007. 4-6PM
"Consciousness in the Cortices--A Reply to Block"
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Meeting 4

Howard Eichenbaum | Tuesday, May 15, 2007. 4-6PM
"The Neural Basis of Recollection"
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Meeting 3

Walter Freeman | Tuesday, May 1, 2007. 4-6PM
"Explaining animal minds as intentional, self-organizing, creative systems in prelude to understanding consciousness"
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Meeting 2

Ned Block | Tuesday, March 20, 2007. 4-6PM
"Consciousness, Accessibility and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience"
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Meeting 1

Rebecca Saxe | Thursday, March 1, 2007. 5-7PM
"Overview of Recent Conceptual Advances (and Puzzles) in Cognitive Neuroscience"
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