Dear <<First Name>>,
The next meeting will be on Monday, 17th February 2020 at 7pm.
We will discuss a piece by Anil Seth on Aeon on The Real Problem of Consciousness, as well as one of his papers, Being a Beast Machine (PDF, or this link if that one doesn't work). You may also wish to watch his TED Talk.
To get an idea of numbers, could you please click one of the below?
Yes, I'll be there!
No, I can't make it.
Please note: We'll be meeting at The Sekforde, in Clerkenwell, near Barbican/Farringdon stations.
Bryan
Current Material
- Anil K Seth, ‘The Hard Problem of Consciousness Is a Distraction from the Real One’, Aeon, 2 November 2016.
- Anil Seth and Manos Tsakiris, ‘Being a Beast Machine: The Somatic Basis of Selfhood’, Trends in Cognitive Science 22, No. 11, no. November 2018 (November 2018): 969–81. (Alternative link)
- Anil Seth, Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality, TED Talk, April 2017.
Previous Material
- Scott Alexander, 'Meditations on Moloch', Slate Star Codex, 30 July 2014.
- Natalie Wolchover, 'New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time', Wired, 25 April 2014.
- Philip Ball, 'Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests', Quanta Magazine, 22 July 2019.
- Theodore Kaczynski, ‘Industrial Society and Its Future’, 1995.
- Alston Chase, ‘Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber’, The Atlantic, 1 June 2000.
- John M. Beggs and Nicholas Timme, ‘Being Critical of Criticality in the Brain’, Frontiers in Physiology 3 (2012).
- Jordana Cepelewicz, ‘A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced’, Quanta Magazine.
Future Meetings
Please let me know if you have any material that might be of interest or relate to a future topic—this could include books, articles, videos, podcasts, exhibitions, films or anything else you can think of.
I would also welcome suggestions for other topics that we could consider.
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