Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<tr><td iwdth="570"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Consciousness and Biology</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><br> <!-- content cell --> <div><img src="images/mandelbrot.gif" align="right"> <ul> <li>Patricia A. Carpenter, Professor of Pyschology, CMU<br><a href="mailto:carpenter+@cmu.edu">carpenter+@cmu.edu</a></li> <li>Christopher J. Davia, Visiting scholar, CMU, Cognitive science program, U of Sussex, U.K.<br><a href="mailto:davia@andrew.cmu.edu">davia@andrew.cmu.edu</a></li> <li><span style="font-style: italic;">This research considers an alternative approach to the traditional mind/brain problem by situating consciousness within a framework of living processes. The proposed theory relates to several current scientific and philosophical approaches -- embodiment, dynamic systems theory, ecological perception, autopoiesis, and phenomenology.</span></li> <li>An informal description of the proposal, by Christopher Davia, is available at: (<a href="http://www.psy.cmu.edu/%7Edavia/mbc">http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~davia/mbc</a>).</li> <li>A more formal paper (under submission), relating the proposal to issues in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience, is available from Davia (<a href="davia@andrew.cmu.edu">davia@andrew.cmu.edu</a>). </li></ul></div></td></tr>