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DTMD abstract and slides

My talk at the DTMD workshop (see recent posts) is this afternoon, and I thought I’d make the abstract and slides available.

September 7, 2011   Posted in: announcements, consciousness, Dennett, information, philosophy, physics  No Comments

Dissertation comments

Throwing caution to the wind, I’ve decided to publish selected markers’ comments on the MSc dissertation. I’m striving for a degree of balance, here, but I’m not claiming to have achieved it. There were two markers, who wrote about 3.5 sides of A4 paper between them. (“Selected” in the first sentence applies to the comments, [...]

July 21, 2011   Posted in: announcements, philosophy  No Comments

Dissertation

In a complete turn-around from The Last Post (that’s what it’s called), I’m working on an abstract for The Difference that Makes a Difference conference. (I sometimes think that the more decisively I make up my mind about something, the better the reasons I’ll soon find for rethinking the decision.) Anyway, sliding back into academic [...]

June 19, 2011   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

The Last Post (maybe)

I recently read William Gibson’s Zero History, and it convinced me of the need to do some kinds of creative work privately, for integrity, among other reasons. So, while I will be working along the lines indicated in the previous post, I won’t be blogging about either the writing process or the ideas. I might [...]

June 7, 2011   Posted in: announcements, literature  3 Comments

Feeling my way forward

I was slightly shocked to realise that it’s been nearly ten months since my last post. I suppose I got out of the habit while working on my MSc dissertation. The eventual submission date was 22nd December, and since then I’ve been trying to decide what to do next. For a number of reasons—mainly the [...]

March 19, 2011   Posted in: announcements, information, philosophy  3 Comments

The Naked Truth

I’ve been thinking about what I now see as dressing this up: looking for the serious angle, preferably philosophical, but if not then sociological or whatever—and it does have that sort of potential, but I don’t have time to get into that sort of thing now—I have to write 20k words over the next couple [...]

May 30, 2010   Posted in: announcements  4 Comments

Opposite extremes in psychotherapy?

I’ve both studied and experienced psychodynamic psychotherapy (“talking therapy”, like psychoanalysis) so I’m very interested in the fact that it’s gaining a good evidence base at last. Similarly, having experienced psychedelic drugs, I was interested to read that they are again being considered for therapeutic use. (This is the first time that I’ve publicly owned [...]

February 27, 2010   Posted in: announcements  No Comments

Meta-philosophy

I’ve been reading up on information, again (John Collier’s Intrinsic Information), which has nothing to do with what I’m supposed to be studying, and, probably as a consequence, thinking deep thoughts about my future in philosophy, and whether I really want to do a PhD (and if not, whether I still have reason to complete [...]

February 26, 2010   Posted in: announcements  2 Comments

Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference

This might seem a bit gimmicky (or maybe I’m just behind the times—I certainly am as regards this announcement) but some big names are taking part.

February 23, 2010   Posted in: announcements, consciousness, philosophy  No Comments

My study plans

After much cogitation, mainly about PhD possibilities, but also (very briefly) about whether I even want to complete the MSc, yesterday I reached some firm conclusions, which I’m publicising to confirm my commitment to them (ie for my own benefit even if nobody else is interested, which is entirely possible). The main development yesterday was [...]

February 13, 2010   Posted in: announcements, Dennett, information, philosophy  No Comments