Newsgroups: sci.psychology.consciousness References: Subject: Notes on a lecture on consciousness Patrick Wilken writes: > article: 524 in sci.psychology.consciousness > Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 10:07:18 +1000 > ... > ...Please feel free to send out new questions and discussion > topics to Psyche-D. Well, here's something that provoke a few people. In February I posted a pointer to a postscript file giving some slides I prepared for a lecture on consciousness at the RSA in London in the directory http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/ The file name is consciousness.lecture.ps I subsequently had to prepare a plain text version for the RSA journal, which is now there in the file consciousness.rsa.text It starts thus: =================================================================== A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO CONSCIOUSNESS (HOW TO AVOID TALKING NONSENSE?) I am embarrassed to be writing about consciousness because my impression is that nearly everything written about it, even by distinguished scientists and philosophers, is mostly rubbish and will generally be seen to be rubbish at some time in the future, perhaps two hundred years from now. This means that my own work is probably also rubbish. However I shall outline some ways in which we can hope to make progress through collaborative, multi-disciplinary research. By doing this work we are sure to learn {\em something}! =================================================================== It's about the study of architectures and the types of states and processes enabled by different sorts of architectures. Criticisms welcome, of course. Cheers Aaron