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2007 Annual Meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The 2007 annual meeting for the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will take place from June 14-17. It will be held on the Keele campus of York University in Toronto, Canada. The stated purpose of the SPP is to promote inter...
Narrative selves
From MindHacks — Philosophy Now has an article on how the self might be based on our ability to create narratives. The article looks at how the self has been related to our ability to make narratives out of the disconnect...
Does the brain show a lie?
Amanda lies flat on her back, clad in a steel blue hospital gown and an air of anticipation, as she is rolled headfirst into a beeping, 10-ton functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) unit. Once inside, the 20-something blo...
Visual hallucinations? Draw it!
Visual (and other non-visual) hallucinations sometimes occur during epileptic seizures. A relatively straightforward but little used method to describe these experiences is to ask the sufferer to draw the hallucinations —...
The unconscious motivator
A study (PDF) recently reported in Science shows how unconsciously processed information about monetary rewards influences behaviour. Furthermore, the researchers identify a basal forebrain region that specifically underpin thi...
Minds, brains and programs — Searle BBS draft
An unedited penultimate draft of a BBS target article by John Searle is now available. It has been accepted for publication (Copyright 1980: Cambridge University Press U.K./U.S. — publication date provisional) and is curr...
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