Ce séminaire d’élèves transdisciplinaire est soutenu par 8 départements de l’ENS : les départements de Géographie, d’Histoire, de Philosophie, de Sciences sociales, d’Économie, d’Études cognitives, ainsi que par le CERES et ECLA.
The neocortex is organized into functionally specialized areas. W= hile the functions and underlying neural circuitry of individual neocortica= l areas are well studied, it is unclear how these regions operate collectiv= ely to form percepts and implement cognitive processes. In particular, it r=emains unknown how distributed, potentially conflicting computations can be= reconciled. Here we show that the reciprocal excitatory connections betwee= n cortical areas orchestrate neural dynamics to facilitate the gradual emer= gence of a =E2=80=98consensus=E2=80=99 across areas.
Vagues, subjectives, difficilement réfutables… Les informations floues biaisent le débat public et laissent prospérer fake news et manipulations.
This paper brings together two lively debates within philosophy of perception, namely, the perceivability of absences and the range of perceptual content. My argument is based on the idea that, if absences are truly perceivable, as I claim to be the case, then the Conservative View about perceptual content is false. First, I briefly present the current debate on absence experience, outlining the three main views that have been advanced, namely the Cognitive, the Meta-Cognitive, and the Perceptual View.
9.45-10:00
Introduction
10:00-11:00
Sandra Shapshay | City University of New York Picturesque "Environmentalism : The Curious Case of the Landfill Park"
11.00-12.00
Enrico Terrone | University of Genova
"Sites and Types : The Cognitive and Environmental Dimensions of Architectural Ontology"
12.00 | Lunch
Interest, understood as an occurrent mental state, plays a role in both epistemic inquiry and aesthetic experience. This dissertation examines the relationship between epistemic interest and aesthetic interest and asks whether these constitute two genuinely distinct types of mental states or should instead be understood as manifestations of a single underlying phenomenon. Against a pluralist view according to which aesthetic interest is distinct from epistemic interest—typically grounded in the notion of aesthetic disinterestedness—I defend a unitary view.
In science, imagination is valued for its ability to help us question things we think we know, including rules and standards.
Chaotic dynamics can naturally arise in high-dimensional heterogeneous systems of interacting variables, of which a simple example are random Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). I will present a simple model for random RNNs which, in some instances of the model, is exactly solvable with Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT). Even though it is more abstract, I will show that the simple model has the same phenomenology as more standard models.
