Re: SCR: Are animals self-aware?, Morin
Glen Sizemore
psychology has mangled this issue. The real question
is: Are animals (human and non-human) automatically
self-aware? That is, self-aware without a particular
sort of history? There is no question that non-human
animals may be made self-aware in limited ways, and
the popular drug-discrimination procedure shows this
without question. Then we must ask:
1.) When we train animals to report whether or not
they have been drugged, are we training them to report
something of which they were already aware, or are we
creating the awareness?
2.) Are there experiments that can be brought to bear
on the issue?
--- Thomas Zoėga Ramsųy <tho...@MAGNET.DRCMR.DK>
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> 1. February 2006
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> 1. SCR Feature: Are animals self-aware?, Alain
> Morin
> 2. Religious belief
> 3. Exploring the boundaries of experience and self
> 4. Most read articles in Cognitive Brain Research
> -- Decision making
> 5. Perspectives on memory and cognition
> 6. Foetal pain reviewed
> 7. Cognitive science and neuro-psycho-pathologies?
> 8. Suppressing emotions
> 9. Critical remarks about art in the brain
> 10. Understanding Emotions
> 11. Call for tutorial proposals, ASSC10
> 12. Stressing the brain to forget
> 13. Books: Metapsychology book review
> 14. Journal: Cognition & Emotion
> 15. Journal: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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> 1. SCR Feature: Are animals self-aware?
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> In this thorough book review, Alain Morin presents
> and discusses
> different aspects of consciousness and
> self-awareness. One pertinent
> question is whether non-human animals possess the
> same, or some crude
> building blocks, of self-awareness. In this review,
> we earn more about
> the different aspects and facets of being aware of
> oneself.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=223
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> 2. Religious belief
> New Scientist
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> Is religious belief a part of human nature? Why did
> it evolve? When did
> we start believing in gods? Why do so many people
> believe in the
> paranormal? In this 12-page special report, New
> Scientist examines the
> science of belief. While some hard-line atheists
> believe religion is the
> root of all evil, the very antithesis of science,
> and certainly not a
> proper subject for scientific inquiry, a growing
> number of researchers
> think otherwise, and the study of belief in all its
> forms has become a
> very hot topic.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=222
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> 3. Exploring the boundaries of experience and self
> Thomas Z. Ramsųy
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> Where are the boundaries of conscious experience and
> self, and why do
> these boundaries exist? How do they develop in
> interaction with parents,
> carers and others? A September conference at St.
> Anne's College, Oxford,
> focuses on this and related questions
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=221
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> 4. Most read articles in Cognitive Brain Research --
> Decision making
> Thomas Z. Ramsųy
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> Among the 25 hottest (i.e. most read) articles in
> the journal Cognitive
> Brain Research, many are about decision making. Here
> we bring the
> chart-toppers. For some of the articles we have also
> found full PDF links.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=220
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> 5. Perspectives on memory and cognition
> Tina Friis
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> We are pleased to invite you to Aarhus, Denmark, to
> participate in a
> conference on Perspectives on Memory and Cognition.
> Six internationally
> recognized scholars have accepted our invitation to
> give an invited
> address on a topic of their particular interest
> within the overall
> framework of memory and cognition. In addition, the
> conference will
> include shorter presentations from researchers in
> cognitive psychology
> and related fields.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=219
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> 6. Foetal pain reviewed
> Mellor
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> When should we call a foetus a human being? When can
> we accept that the
> foetus experiences pain? According to this latest
> study by Mellor and
> colleagues, the current understanding of pain
> perception during
> development is still poorly understood.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=217
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> 7. Cognitive science and neuro-psycho-pathologies?
> Shaun Gallagher
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> What cognitive science can learn from neuro-
> psycho-pathologies? This is
> the theme for a forthcoming conference at the
> University of Central
> Florida. This conference will explore various
> approaches to
> understanding both neuropathologies and
> psychopathologies, with
> interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy,
> psychology, cognitive
> neuroscience, psychiatry and other cognitive
> sciences. Special emphasis
> will be given to questions about delusions and
> pathologies of
> embodiment, agency, self-consciousness, and
> practical reasoning.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=216
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> 8. Suppressing emotions
> Ohira et al.
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> What happens when we suppress emotional thoughts or
> behaviour? In a
> study by Ohira and colleagues, it was shown that
> active suppression of
> emotions led to distinct patterns of activation.
> Areas activated in this
> PET study included the lateral and medial prefrontal
> and medial
> orbitofrontal cortices. Furthermore, the researchers
> found a tight
> correlation between the level of activation in the
> medial orbitofrontal
> cortex and skin conductance measures.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=215
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> 9. Critical remarks about art in the brain
> john Hyman
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> An online published paper by John Hyman provides a
> thorough criticism of
> two major contributors to the emergent field of
> neuroaesthetics, V.S.
> Ramachandran and Semir Zeki.
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http://sci-con.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=214
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