Bitwise consciousness
Carl Zimmer writes about theories of consciousness in today’s Science NY Times, and describes the work of my Wisconsin colleague, Giulio Tononi.
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Book review: Spook, by Mary Roach
I’ve just finished Mary Roach’s entertaining book, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.
Mind control
We've been watching this show on the SciFi channel, Mind Control, in which British "psychological illusionist" Derren Brown. Brown is sort of like a much le...
Octopus minds
I like this post on octopus intelligence by Chris Chatham. He reviews an article by Jennifer Mather that claims that cephalopods have primary consciousness....
Greetings, meat machines, it's a New Year
I was going to make it a quote of the day, but this column by NYT writer Dennis Overbye is worth reading in full. It's about the march of science against fr...
Searle on Humphrey
Philosopher of mind John Searle has written a review of Nick Humphrey's new book, "Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness."
A view on animal consciousness
This could be a very long post, but isn't -- surely a few other short ones and a longer one will follow this summer. If you've been following, you will reme...
Quote of the day
Cited in a lecture I heard today, from T. H. Huxley: