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Bill Faw What We Know and What We Don ’ t About Consciousness Science
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Faw, Bill Hobson, Allan |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | How often have you said you will not attend conferences where your pre-conference workshop was not accepted or your proposed prime-time paper was turned into a late-night poster? Given that propensity, it was great to see several prominent consciousness scientists and philosophers attending ASSC-9, even though they played no (or only a minor) official role. Their active involvement is a tribute to ASSC conferences being major gatherings of the ‘consciousness community’. Many of them were more officially involved in the preor post-conference satellite meetings: ‘Neurophilosophy: The State of the Art’ (June 21-23) and ‘Problems of space and time in perception and action’ (June 28). In terms of greats in the field, the assembly honoured the late-greats Francis Crick and Joseph Bogen. Christof Koch hosted the programme for his home-town ‘technical school’, giving announcements and introducing introducers. At times Koch must have felt like he was herding solipsists, especially once when, because we were running late, he announced that a scheduled 30-minute coffee break would be ‘a short 10 minutes’. Needless to say, it was a full half hour before he could resume the sessions. Patrick Wilken, in his organizational remarks to the conference, called us a membership conference of an Academic Society, mentioning that our membership has grown from 340 last year to 480 this year, with about one-third being graduate students. In response to the latter fact, the organizing committee developed a student prize presentation and a student social event this year. They also lined up the Mind-Science Foundation, who served as a conference sponsor and gave Tom Slick Research Award in Consciousness grant money to the five scholars comprising the first plenary symposium of this conference. (The |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
