The Enactive Torch

We are going to be presenting and demonstrating the Enactive Torch during Test_Lab on the 21st of Feb. at V2_ in Rotterdam. For more information about V2_ please click here.

The proposal which Tom Froese and Adam Spiers have submitted to this year’s Toward a Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Arizona has been accepted as a concurrent talk. The Enactive Torch is going to the States!!

The title of our contribution is:

“The Enactive Torch: Promoting first-person phenomenology in the study of enactive perception”

In order to read the extended abstract of our talk please click here.

There will be a seminar about the Enactive Torch taking place for the Life and Mind seminar series at the University of Sussex on Wednesday, the 17th Nov. 2007.

You can find more details here.

We are going to demonstrate the Enactive Torch at this year’s Enactive Interfaces conference. We will also hold a talk (see abstract below).

Toward a Phenomenological Pragmatics of Enactive Perception

The enactive approach to perception is generating an extensive amount of interest and debate in the cognitive sciences. One particularly contentious issue has been how best to characterize the perceptual experiences reported by subjects who have mastered the skillful use of a perceptual supplementation (PS) device. This paper argues that this issue cannot be resolved with the use of third-person methodologies alone, but that it requires the development of a phenomenological pragmatics. In particular, it is necessary that the experimenters become skillful in the use of PS devices themselves. The ‘Enactive Torch’ is proposed as an experimental platform which is cheap, non-intrusive and easy to replicate, so as to enable researchers to corroborate reported experiences with their own phenomenology more easily.

Presented at the 4th Int. Conf. on Enactive Interfaces, (Enactive/07), 19-22 Nov. 2007, Grenoble, France.