Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose think it does. How can we comprehend the nature of our conscious experience? This question provokes four types of explanation. "Reductive materialists" believe that...
Patricia Churchland is less convinced. When I am asleep, I am unaware of the smell of cinnamon in the air. Distracted by a video game, I am unaware of the movement of my tongue. If a stroke renders...
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY. Honorary degrees in Noticeboard on February 23, 1996 should have read as follows: DUniv: Martin Bell, foreign correspondent of the BBC; and posthumously to Alison Hargreaves,...
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. Charities: Professor D. Thurnham, Pounds 153,000 from The Howard Foundation (research chair) Research contracts: Dr A. Smith, Pounds 60,000 from Youth Services (controversial...
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH Rod Blackshaw, former principal scientific officer with the department of agriculture for Northern Ireland, professor of agricultural zoology and head of agriculture and food...
UNIVERSITY OF KENT The University of Kent has a new chancellor: Sir Crispin Tickell, the former diplomat who is now warden of Green College, Oxford. At one time our permanent representative at the...
Igor Aleksander believes they can; Jaron lanier disagrees Can machines be conscious? "I should co-co! You should see my new video recorder. Set it up to record Neighbours and it gives you the early...
A survey of 2,000 final-year engineering students shows that only half of them feel they were adequately informed about their course before they joined and a quarter believe they chose the wrong one...
Edinburgh University's centre for human ecology is once again facing an uncertain future following the unexpected resignation of its new director after only six months. The university court last year...
Sir Malcolm Thornton, Conservative MP for Crosby and chair for the last seven years of the Select Committee on Education, has been elected chair of the newly-merged Education and Employment committee.
Library staff members of the Association of University Teachers are to campaign against further Government cuts in the face of what they described as "savage cuts" to university library funding....
Kam Patel reports on accusations of 'woefully inadequate' statistics on BSE, and the launch of a new research programme. Health secretary Stephen Dorrell announced earlier this week that a new...
Kam Patel reports on accusations of 'woefully inadequate' statistics on BSE, and the launch of a new research programme. A shakeup of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) followed...
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, now has a guide to the forthcoming Tuscon 2 consciousness conference, which it will be broadcasting in audio, as well as its guide to the news, features and reviews...
Paisley University has announced plans to build a new Pounds 6.8 million library and learning resource centre. Around half the costs will be met by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, and...