Concepts and Proto-Concepts in Cognitive Science (part 2)

As explained in the previous post, in August of 2010 I gave two lectures as part of the annual Summer School of the Swedish Graduate School in Cognitive Science (SweCog; see http://www.swecog.se/summerschool.shtml). The previous post contains the first of these lectures; this is part two. Near the end I showed a movie as a kind of dynamical specification of the non-conceptual content of visual experience modeled by the SEER-3 robot. This movie is not included in the PodSlide file; those interested in seeing it should download the supplementary file: "Non-conceptual content specification demo".

Media:

• PodSlides: iPod-ready video (.mp4; 48.6 MB; 64 min 39 sec)
  
• Audio (.mp3; 29.7 MB; 64 min 39 sec)
  
• PowerPoint file (.pptx; 4.2 MB)
  
• Non-conceptual content specification demo (.mov; 10.9 MB)
  

Concepts and Proto-Concepts in Cognitive Science (part 1)

In August of 2010 I gave two lectures as part of the annual Summer School of the Swedish Graduate School in Cognitive Science (SweCog; see http://www.swecog.se/summerschool.shtml). I was invited to speak on the topic "Cognition (or Consciousness) and Non-Conceptual Content", so I devoted the first lecture to getting clear on the nature of concepts. This allowed me to contrast conceptual content (which is, briefly: content that is articulable, recombinable, rational and deployable) with non-conceptual content, which was detailed in the second lecture (to follow).

Media:

• PodSlides: iPod-ready video (.mp4; 49.7 MB; 59 min 30 sec)
  
• Audio (.mp3; 28.6 MB; 59 min 30 sec)
  
• PowerPoint file (.pptx; 1.2 MB)