The Construction of Light
"And if a bird can speak, who once was a dinosaur And a dog can dream; should it be implausible That a man might supervise The construction...
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Making Predictive Coding More Predictive, More Enactive
Making Predictive Coding More Predictive, More Enactive Ron Chrisley, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science & Dept of Informatics, Univer...
Painting an experience? How aesthetics might assist a neuroscience of sensory experience
IULM University, Milan, hosted a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on "Neuroesthetics: When art and the brain collide" on the...
Sensory Augmentation, Synthetic Phenomenology and Interactive Empiricism
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 Issu...
Concepts and Proto-Concepts in Cognitive Science (part 2)
As explained in the previous post, in August of 2010 I gave two lectures as part of the annual Summer School of the Swedish Graduate School...
Concepts and Proto-Concepts in Cognitive Science (part 1)
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 h...
Naturalizing the Spiritual: Lessons from Cognitive Science
On November 13th, 2007, I gave a talk at a meeting of the Yale Divinity School Initiative in Religion, Science and Technology, entitled: "Na...
Engineering For Conceptual Change: The Enactive Torch
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 t...
Interactive Empiricism: The Philosopher in the Machine
Left to right: Igor Aleksander, Wendy Hall, Ron Chrisley, Nigel Shadbolt. Photo: unknown. On July 11th, 2007, I gave an invited lecture as p...
New computationalism
This lecture, given at the University of Skövde on October 19th, 2006, is an extended version of one I gave in Laval in May ( "In defense of...
"After Philosophy": Introduction (part 2)
See the description of Part 1 . Media: PodSlides: iPod-ready video (.mp4; 43.7 MB; 31 min 08 sec) Audio (.mp3; 7.2 MB; 31 min 03 sec) PowerP...
"After Philosophy": Introduction (part 1)
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...
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), s...
Machine models of consciousness: An ASSC tutorial (part 1)
Last Friday (June 23rd), as part of the 10th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness in Oxford, Igor Aleksander...
Evolving concepts of creativity: A mirror, a tightrope and an inkblot
A few hours ago I spoke at the second University of Sussex creativity workshop, "Evolving Views of Creativity". Speaking near the end of the...
Counterfactual computational vehicles of consciousness
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...
In defense of transparent computationalism
This talk, given on May 5th 2006 in Laval, France at the International Conference on Computers and Philosophy , was originally to be based o...
Finding aesthetic pleasure on the subjective edge of chaos: A proposal for robotic creativity
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...