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講演者：
　　Prof. Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)

1. 講演会（1）
日時：2011年3月7日（月）16:00-18:00
場所：駒場キャンパス18号館4階コラボレーションルーム1
題目：
　　Embodiment, Action, and Explanation in 21st Century Cognitive Science
　　(A talk that covers similar ground to Being There, but with some fresh examples. It is called Messy Minds)

2. 研究会：大学院生ならびにPDによる発表と質疑
日時：2011年3月9日（水）14:00-17:00
場所：未定

3. 講演会（2）
日時：2011年3月11日（金）16:00-18:00
場所：駒場キャンパス16号館1階119号室
題目：
　　Natural-Born Cyborgs: Reflections on Bodies, Minds, and Human Enhancement.
　　(A talk that covers similar ground to Natural-Born Cyborgs, but with some fresh examples)

使用言語：英語
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*本研究会は、科学研究費（基盤研究Ｂ「生態学的現象学の技術哲学的展開：生態学的に優れた人工環境の構築に向けて」研究代表者：村田純一）に基づくものです。
*共催：東京大学グローバルCOE「共生のための国際哲学教育研究センター」（UTCP）

【アブストラクト (講義第1回目)】
Messy Minds: Embodiment, Action and Explanation in 21st Century Cognitive Science

Biologically evolved intelligence makes the most of brain, body, and world.
This talk looks at the resulting messiness, and highlights some of the unexpected advantages of ‘messy’ processes that span multiple levels of organization (neural, bodily, worldly) and multiple time-scales (evolution, development, learning).
I end by asking whether there can be a systematic science of ‘messy minds’. Can there be a fundamental theory linking morphology, perception, action and neural control in ways that reveal their co-operative role in the construction and control of intelligent behaviour?

【アブストラクト (講義第2回目)】
Natural-Born Cyborgs? Reflections on Bodies, Minds, and Human Enhancement

We are entering an age of widespread human enhancement. The technologies range from wearable, implantable, and pervasive computing, to new forms of onboard sensing, thought-controlled equipment, prosthetic legs able to win track races, and on to the humble but transformative iPhone. But what really matters is the way we are, as a result of this tidal wave of self- re-engineering opportunity, just starting to know ourselves: not as firmly bounded biological organisms but as delightfully reconfigurable nodes in a flux of information, communication, and action. This gives us a new opportunity to look at ourselves, and to ask the fundamental question: Where does the mind stop, and the rest of the world begin?