One of my pipe dreams has always been to get to be involved in some kind of Center for the Empirical Study of Consciousness. Sure, NYU has the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, but there is room for a friendly rival with some post-docs of its own, isn’t there?
Well, I am not holding my breath for that to happen anytime soon, but we virtually have one here already, and this has got me to thinking that maybe I should expand on this a bit more in the future to some other kinds of online events.
The Blog (yes, old school blogging!)
- Philosophy Sucks!
- Not as frequent as I used to be but I have about 20 years of odds and ends related to consciousness here
The Podcast/YouTube show:
- Consciousness Live! -Where the stream of consciousness goes over the edge
- Long-form informal discussion with anyone interested in the empirical study of the mind
- More than 100 episodes, each with a full transcript: start here, browse by topic or by guest, or search every episode
The Conference:
- The Online Consciousness Conference
- Five conferences from 2009-2013. Every paper, commentary, video and discussion thread is now archived here on this site.
- Browse the papers by year: 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013, or search the whole archive
- Now that we have zoom I am thinking of ways to bring a new and improved version of this back!
The Music:
- Qualia Fest & other shows
- From 2009 to 2012 the New York Consciousness Collective put on nights of music by philosophers and cognitive scientists, including three Qualia Fests (one of them in the New York Times). Video, recordings and line-ups for every show…plus who even has time to play music these days?
Upcoming Events -stay tuned!