Speaker:
　　Prof. Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)

1. Lecture (1)
16:00-18:00, March 7 (Mon), 2011
Collaboration Room 1, 4th Floor, Building 18, University of Tokyo, Komaba

Messy Minds: 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. Workshop
14:00-17:00, March 9 (Wed), 2011
Place: TBA
Speakers: TBA

3. Lecuture (2)
16:00-18:00, March 11 (Fri), 2011
Room 119, 1st Floor, Building 16, University of Tokyo, Komaba

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)

Language: English
Admission Free
No Registration Required

Sponsored by KAKENHI (21320003, PI: Murata Junichi)
Co-organized by University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy

[Abstract (1st lecture)]
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?

[Abstract (2nd lecture)]
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?