Two Views on the Cognitive Brain

Emergence and Causation (Part 2)

William Bechtel discusses his new book “Philosophy of Neuroscience” (with Linus Huang), including mechanisms and hierarchy/heterarchy

Phylogenetic Approach by Paul Cisek (audio only)

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Watch a related talk by Paul here (from 1:01 to 1:28)

Biological Anatomy with Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio, and discussion with Evan Thompson

Do Neural Spikes Cause Consciousness? Discussion with Albert Gidon, Jaan Aru, Matthew Larkum

Contextual Emergence and Consciousness by Michael Silberstein

Mechanism and Causation in Neuroscience with Lauren Ross and Dani Bassett

Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials: Epiphenomenon or Causally Efficacious?

 Representation II

 Continue with our discussion of brain representations with Bryce Huebner, Yohan John, Michael Anderson, Russ Poldrack, Kevin Mitchell,   Roberto Toro, Robyn, Luiz Pessoa, and others.

 “What are brain representations?”

  Discussion with Russell Poldrack, Ines Hipolito, and Michael Anderson.

 Emergence and Causation (Part 2)

 Discussion with Danielle Bassett, Lauren Ross, Randy McIntosh, & Michael Silberstein.

 Emergence and Causation (Part 1)

 Discussion with Danielle Bassett, Lauren Ross, Randy McIntosh, & Michael Silberstein.
 (Unfortunately, the presentation by Dani Bassett was lost because of a computer crash; the video starts with the last part of Lauren’s  presentation.)

 Two Views on the Cognitive Brain

 Presentation with David Barack. Commentators: Corey Maley & Emmanuelle Tognoli.

 William Bechtel discusses his new book “Philosophy of Neuroscience” (with Linus Huang), including mechanisms and hierarchy/heterarchy.

 Brain Representations

 By Gualtiero Piccinini: why do we need embeddedness, embodiment, and effect.

 Phylogenetic Approach by Paul Cisek (audio only).

 Biological Autonomy

 With Alvaro Moreno, Matteo Mossio, and discussion with Evan Thompson.

 Contextual Emergence and Consciousness

 By Michael Silberstein.

 Spikes, Local Field Potentials, and Waves

 With Leslie Kay, Earl Miller, and Tony Zador.

 Do Neural Spikes Cause Consciousness

 Discussion with Albert Gidon, Jaan Aru, Matthew Larkum.

 Formalizing Biological Systems (and Brains!): Pushing The Boundaries

 With Johannes Jaeger.

 Inner screen model of consciousness: applying free energy principle to study of conscious experience 

 Presentation by Maxwell Ramstead, with participation by Karl Friston and Adam Safron.

 How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis with Jaan Aru

 With Suzuki, Cyiriel, and Aru.

 Mechanism and Causation in Neuroscience

 With Lauren Ross and Dani Bassett.

 Are “mental disorder” “brain disorder”

 Presentations by Anneli Jefferson and Awais Aftab. Commentaries by Nicole Rust, Alexey Tolchinsky, and Eiko Fried.

 Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials: Epiphenomenon or Causally Efficacious?

 With Sander van Bree, Daniel Levenstein, Matthew R. Krause, and Richard Gao.

 How many types of causation should we consider in neuroscience? Beyond Mechanism/Extending Causation

 With Kevin Mitchell and Henry Potter, and extensive discussion by Peter Tse