Updates

Updates 29/6/11

Apologies: Blay

Paul

Working on thesis.

Simon

Working on Joint Session talk. Thought my subject – panpsychism and the composition problem – would be a welcome change from natural kinds and downward causation, but it turns out that deproblematising composition and adding the idea of the mind being composed of multiple virtual machines is a good way of arguing for non-reductive, downwardly causal mental properties.

Tom

Working on talk for E-int and Joint Session.

Ron

Went to 1st person approach conference in Berkeley – changed plan and gave a response to Susan Stewart’s criticism of synthetic phenomenology work.

Gave talk last week to philosophy faculty research progress meeting.

Going to Sweden on Monday till August.

Supervising MSc student – implementing web browsing advisor built on architecture inspired by Bernard Baars global workspace theory.