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Creative Commons |
Victims of Algorithmic Violence: An Introduction to AI Ethics and Human-AI Interaction |
A high-level overview of key areas of AI ethics and not-ethics, exploring the challenges of algorithmic decision-making, kinds of bias, and interpretability, linking these issues to problems of human-system interaction. |
Max Van Kleek |
06 Apr 2022 |
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Creative Commons |
Paving the Path for Human Space Exploration: The Challenges and Opportunities |
The 42nd Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture: ‘Paving the Path for Human Space Exploration:The Challenges and Opportunities’ presented by Lauri N. Hansen, Director of Engineering, NASA Johnson Space Centre. |
Lauri N. Hansen |
01 Jun 2016 |
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Are we bigger than the biosphere? An ecologist's examination of our human dominated planet. |
Prof Yadvinder Malhi delivers the 2nd School of Geography and the Environment Annual Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society on 12 February 2015. |
Yadvinder Malhi |
24 Mar 2015 |
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Creativity Lecture 8: Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery |
Prof. Margaret Boden (Philosophy, Sussex) delivers a lecture as part of the Keble College Creativity series. |
Margaret Boden |
28 May 2012 |
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Creativity Lecture 5: The Neuroscience of Creativity |
Professor Susan Greenfield explains how neuroscience can make innovative contributions to creativity by offering a perspective at the level of the physical brain. |
Susan Greenfield |
06 Feb 2012 |
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The Social Brain on the Internet |
In primates and humans alike, the number of social relationships an individual can have is constrained in part by its social cognitive competences and in part by the time available to invest in face-to-face interaction. |
Robin Dunbar |
23 Aug 2011 |
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Why the Hominin Cognitive Niche Was and Is a Crucially Socio-cognitive Niche |
Tooby and deVore argued that hominin evolution hinged on the exploitation of a unique 'cognitive niche'. We propose that a diversity of evidence indicates this was fundamentally a socio-cognitive niche. |
Andrew Whiten |
23 Aug 2011 |
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Metacognition and the Social Mind: How Individuals Interact at the Neural Level |
I will review recent research in neuroimaging and computation neuroscience, and present a new paradigm for studying decision making in pairs. |
Chris Frith |
23 Aug 2011 |
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Experiencing Language |
The evolutionary relationship between human linguistic capacity and humans' emotional make-up has not, as yet, received focused attention. |
Eva Jablonka |
23 Aug 2011 |
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Creative Commons |
Signals, Honesty and the Evolution of Language |
The evolution of language is a long-standing puzzle for many reasons. One is that its very virtues as a system of communication seem to open the door to ruinous free-riding and deception. |
Kim Sterelny |
23 Aug 2011 |
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Embodiment: Taking Sociality Seriously |
A very wise person of our acquaintance once said, 'Read old books to get new ideas'. |
Louise Barrett |
22 Aug 2011 |
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Creative Commons |
Cortico-cerebellar Evolution and the Distributed Neural Basis of Cognition |
Biologists interested in cognitive evolution have focussed on the dramatic expansion of the forebrain, particularly the neocortex, in lineages such as primates. |
Robert Barton |
22 Aug 2011 |
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A New Comparative Psychology |
In their classic 1969 paper Hodos and Campbell bemoaned the absence of appropriate evolutionary theory in comparative psychology. In this talk I will argue that despite the advent of Evolutionary Psychology the situation has changed only a little today. |
Russell Gray |
22 Aug 2011 |
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Creative Commons |
The Mystery of Cumulative Culture |
Human demographic and ecological success is frequently attributed to our capacity for cumulative culture, which allows human knowledge and technology to build up and improve over time. |
Kevin Laland |
22 Aug 2011 |
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Creative Commons |
Cultural Inheritance of Cultural Learning |
It is widely acknowledged that the cumulative cultural inheritance of technological skills and social practices has played a major role in shaping the ways of life of modern humans. |
Cecilia Heyes |
22 Aug 2011 |
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Welcome and Introduction |
Introduction to the "New Thinking: Advances in the Study of Human Cognitive Evolution" conference. |
Cecilia Heyes |
22 Aug 2011 |