Djavan - "Serrado" (1979)

More (Neuro-)Phenomenology Resources

The International Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences has a vast collection of web-based resources and references around the topics of (neuro-)phenomenology and cognitive science.

Furthermore, scientist Leslie Marsh runs a blog named manwithoutqualities, where he also treats neurophenomenology-related topics like the extended mind, with a series of posts about Francisco Varela, including the following video with excerpts from Franz Reichle's 2005 documentary "Monte Grande" about Varela's life.

A Cartoon Epistemology for Neuroscientists (via Merlin)

"A Cartoon Epistemology" for neuroscientists in three parts (by ophtalmological cognitive scientist Steve Lehar, 2003), including a selection of follow-up discussions (e.g., a summary of the one with David Chalmers)

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Addendum: Lehan's ideas overlap with Thomas Metzinger's phenomenal self-model and the phenomenal model of the intentionality relation (succinctly described in this 2004 paper The Subjectivity of Subjective Experience: A Representationalist Analysis of the First-Person Perspective) and the seminal approach of sensorimotor contingencies as put forward in 2000 by Alva Noë and Kevin O'Regan (who also prefers hand-drawn manikins to illustrate his theories).

Phenomenology and Neurophenomenology Resources Online

For the eleventh anniversary of Francisco Varela's untimely death, I compiled a couple of online resources about phenomenology and neurophenomenology (to be continued).

Audio and Video:

• Youtube playlist of the videos of the 2011 conference "Embodiment of Life" - mainly on the legacy of Francisco Varela (see also the upcoming 2012 version)
• Youtube playlist of ~70 videos on Phenomenology: mainly about or with Heidegger but also including Husserl, Jaspers, Dreyfus as well as Nietzsche
• Audio files of Hubert Dreyfus' 2011 lecture on Heidegger's Being and Time (Phil 185) at Berkeley
• Video of the panel discussion "The Reflective Self" at Columbia in 2008 with Dan Zahavi, Evan Thompson and others
• Audio and video files (plus transcripts) of the 2006 symposium "Mind and Reality" at Columbia

Blogs:

• "Neurophenomenology" maintained by Owen McNally, PhD - includes a nice historic overview(part 1, part 2, part 3)
• "Learning Philosophy of Change" by Giorgio Bertini, particularly the posts tagged "Varela"

Texts:

• 2004 special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on "Naturalizing Phenomenology" (edited by Antoine Lutz)
• Thomas Nagel (1974) What is it like to be a bat? (pdf)
• David Chalmers' collection of online texts on Phenomenology and Consciousness and the same topics at PhilPapers

Kandel's Reconciliation? "Age of Insight" to appear

I have to admit that 650 pages about "The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present" is quite a good excuse for the constantly postponed publication of "Principles of Neural Science - Ed. 5".
Eric Kandel's "Age of Insight" to appear soon.

Stanley Kubrick Animated Gifs

A sequence of subtle and creepy animated gifs from Stanley Kubrick movies, very unusual in times of quick and flashy digital everyday life (via brainpickings).

#400: Tempo, tempo, tempo, tempo (via Ley)

Fittingly to the beginning of a new year and as blog post number 400:
Caetano Veloso's Oração ao tempo (lyrics here)



and the version by Rita Ribeiro