Distinguished Lecture Series: Joseph Levine (UMass Amherst)

“The conscious mind and the computational brain: Where is the gap?”

Please note: “Meet the Speaker” for Mind & Brain doctoral students:
7 June, 10.00, Lounge (first floor, next to Cafeteria) (also joined by Louise Antony who will speak on 11 June)
Abstract: In the past two decades we’ve seen a number of naturalistic theories of consciousness developed. Philosophers have appealed to various computational and neural implementation features to explain conscious experience, such as higher-order representation, global broadcast, attentional mechanisms, and first-order perceptual representation. Yet, I maintain, an explanatory gap persists. I attempt to identify just where the gap is located, and then draw some speculative consequences concerning the relation between the computational brain and the conscious mind. Read more about Joseph Levine: http://www.umass.edu/philosophy/faculty/faculty-pages/levine.htm

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