Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Honorary DLitt: cinematographers Jack Cardiff and Douglas Slocombe. GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA DMus: Ian Horsburgh, principal of the school in recognition of his...
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Do you believe in psychic phenomena? Are they likely to be able to explain consciousness?
Jessica Utts and Brian D. Josephson are open to the idea. Those who recognise that significant discoveries in science are often prompted by observations that do not fit expectations will find a...
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Do you believe in psychic phenomena? Are they likely to be able to explain consciousness?
Susan Blackmore is sceptical. If you took a time machine and travelled back anywhere in parapsychology's 60-year history you might hear parapsychologists say something like this: "The old experiments...
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Does consciousness emerge from quantum processes?
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...
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Does consciousness emerge from quantum processes?
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...
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Honorary degrees
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,...
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Grants
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...
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Chairs
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...
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Appointments
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...
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Can machines ever be conscious?
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...
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Flick and press squeezes
The article by David Cesarani was confused and confusing - one's strong impression was that it was written merely to have his name publicly associated with this controversy. In line with Oxford...
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Endearing to all sides
Careful advance briefing and careful gathering of long-circulated ideas secured a smooth passage for Sir Ron Dearing's report on 16-19 qualifications published this week. It contains few surprises;...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. Over 100 ago Charles Darwin speculated that language was an "instinct". Evidence suggests...
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The bad language carriers
How we learn to speak is a mystery. Myrna Gopnik claims to have found a gene which transmits bad grammar. The language gene is the holy grail of linguistics. Find that, and you are up there with...
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Catcher of the wry
American campus chronicler Alison Lurie talks to Tim Cornwell. The first tale in Alison Lurie's last book, a volume of short stories, Women and Ghosts, features a professor named Gregor Spiegelman....