Return of the Hammer
Last week’s Churchlandpalooza was way cool. I met a bunch of new excellent people (AKA Brain Hammer readers) and hung out with a bunch of excellent old ones. Thanks, all of you who came up and said “hi”. Now it’s time to turn the talk into a journal article. Stay tuned. In the meantime, here’s my gianormous (10 mb) PowerPoint file, chock-full of more Swamp Marys, pre-frontal cortices, and conceptualized guava-tastings than you can shake a laser pointer at: Consciousness Without Subjectivity
Fig. 1. Proud Mary keeps on burnin’. And Blind Mary knows what it’s like to see red.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hi Pete,
Can’t d/l the presentation. Something wrong with the link?
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Thanks, Tanasije. I’m looking into it.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Ok, I think I fixed it. If not, I have to go sacrifice another goat to the Elder Gods.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Pete,
It had been ages since I looked at your blog, but I noticed that you had posted a little something about your Swamp Mary presentation, which I thoroughly enjoyed in Cincinnati. Great meeting with you and discussing Quine, mechanism explanations, etc. over at John and Marica’s. I will be at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, NY this fall and spring, and we will be putting together a conference on pragmatism and science. If you might be interested in that sort of thing, let me know.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Hi Mark,
It was terrific meeting you, thanks for the note. I’d be interested in hearing more about the pragmatism and science conference. I’ll shoot you an email.
Cheers!