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Research on Computational Cinema

October 6, 2012
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ICPR 2012

Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research aka Mind-Altering Science Conference is dedicated to psychology, pharmacology, biology, cognitive AI, philosophy and neuroscience to penetrate the neural mechanisms that underly ek-stasy, mystical experiences, religious trances, and orgasm, with a focus on drugs like MDMA, LSD, Ayahuasca, Psylocibine, used in a medical research framework. Researchers from this community are often called psychonauts, or consciousness/awareness researchers. See: MAPS, Heffter Research Institute.

September 28, 2012
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From classical to embodied AI

The ShanghAI Lectures on Artificial Intelligence taught by Prof. Rolf Pfeifer of the Zurich AI Lab have started. The main textbook is «how the body shapes the way we think». The main idea, defended by Rodney Brooks, is to recognize the effect of the body and of the physical environment on the mind and on the ways we think, evolve and adapt. His synthetic psychology approach consists in building robots and making thought experiments to understand intelligence.

September 18, 2012
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Nominalism

Philosophical colloquium about nominalism in Geneva.
This metaphysical debate is contemporary, mainly because of the current rejection by the general public of sophisticated financial instruments which they don’t understand, but also of the existence of virtual entities, be they mediated, fictional, or imaginary. Nominalism is characterized by a rejection of abstractions.