Proceedings Proceedings Of The 20th Annual International Conference Of The Society For Phenomenology And Media

This volume includes papers presented to the 20th Annual International Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media in Akureyri, Iceland, in March, 2018.

The volume of SPM PROCEEDINGS includes papers presented at the 19th annual international conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media, held in Brussels, Belgium, in March of 2017.

Is it possible to guide the process of self-organisation towards specific patterns and outcomes? Wouldn’t this be self-contradictory? After all, a self-organising process assumes a transition into a more organised form, or towards a more structured functionality, in the absence of centralised control. Then how can we place the guiding elements so that they do not override rich choices potentially discoverable by an uncontrolled process? This book presents different approaches to resolving this paradox. In doing so, the presented studies address a broad range of phenomena, ranging from autopoietic systems to morphological computation, and from small-world networks to information cascades in swarms. A large variety of methods is employed, from spontaneous symmetry breaking to information dynamics to evolutionary algorithms, creating a rich spectrum reflecting this emerging field. Demonstrating several foundational theories and frameworks, as well as innovative practical implementations, Guided Self-Organisation: Inception, will be an invaluable tool for advanced students and researchers in a multiplicity of fields across computer science, physics and biology, including information theory, robotics, dynamical systems, graph theory, artificial life, multi-agent systems, theory of computation and machine learning.

This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciousness. To address such a unity is to understand mutual challenges that the brain and the self pose for each other. The fascinating discussions that this book presents are: How do the brain and self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?

Glimpse is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to practical and philosophical considerations of specific media, media history, and media theory. It is the annual publication of the Society for Phenomenology and Media. Originally established as a venue for papers presented at the Society's international conferences, Glimpse now publishes original articles from a variety of perspectives and is open to a wide range of phenomenological opinion.

Glimpse is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to practical and philosophical considerations of specific media, media history, and media theory. It is the annual publication of the Society for Phenomenology and Media. Originally established as a venue for papers presented at the Society's international conferences, Glimpse now publishes original articles from a variety of perspectives and is open to a wide range of phenomenological opinion.