Category Archives: Ratna Ling Consciousness Conferences

Having just read through the transcript of the closing session, which nicely captures the inspiring atmosphere of this year’s Ratna Ling, I would like to take this opportunity to post an open response to all the participants: This response is … Continue reading →

Coming on the heels of the Third Ratna Ling Conference on First-Person Methodologies, this article makes interesting reading. I can imagine people reacting very differently, depending on their own interests. The aim of the article is conservative. As they say … Continue reading →

Listen to streaming audio of talks given during the retreat. Click on the forward arrow to simply play that streaming audio file. If you click the text portion of the link, you will initiate a download of that mp3 sound … Continue reading →

Download transcript – 2008 Conference – Closing Session (.doc-60k)

Ron Chrisley is the Director of COGS, the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, where he holds a Readership in Philosophy in the Department of Informatics. He has held various research positions in Artificial Intelligence, … Continue reading →

Christian de Quincey, Ph.D is Professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University; Academic Director for Conscious Evolution at The Graduate Institute; and Director of the Center for Interspecies Research. He is also founder of The Wisdom … Continue reading →

I joined the CCNR, the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, at the University of Sussex as a new part-time D.Phil. student in October 2004 and switched to full-time study in October 2007. Before that I spent four years in … Continue reading →

Toward a Phenomenological Pragmatics of Enactive Perception Tom Froese and Adam Spiers Abstract. The enactive approach to perception is generating an extensive amount of interest and debate in the cognitive sciences. One particularly contentious issue has been how best to … Continue reading →

To read Christian de Quincey’s paper click the title below Reality Bubbles Consciousness and the Problem Matter.pdf