Ned Block

Videos

Various videos are included below, sorted into talks, panels, and interviews.

Talks

Perception is non-conceptual

Part of the Philosophy in Biology and Medicine Series, University of Bordeaux, November 18, 2022

An empirical argument that perception is non-conceptual

Part of a workshop "Locating Subjectivity in the study of Consciousness," Ashoka University (Sonipat, India), April 23, 2022

An empirical argument that perception is non-conceptual

Keynote at the 8th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, Amrita Mind Brain Center at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, January 22, 2022

Thinking, seeing and consciousness

International Association for Computing and Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Warsaw, 2018

How to think about the border between seeing and thinking?

Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 2018

AI Cognition Won't Work for Consciousness

Talks at Google, June 14, 2017

L1 Are feeling and thought fundamentally different.mp4

Are feeling (consciousness) and thought (cognition) fundamentally different?

Lecture 1 from Block's Jean Nicod Lecture series, Conscious, Inconscious, Preconscious, May 6, 2014

L2 Seeing-as, Concepts and Non-conceptual Content.mp4

Seeing-as, Concepts and Non-conceptual Content

Lecture 2 from Block's Jean Nicod Lecture series, Conscious, Inconscious, Preconscious, May 7, 2014

L3 Mental Paint and the Unspecificity of Perception.mp4

Mental Paint and the Unspecificity of Perception

Lecture 3 from Block's Jean Nicod Lecture series, Conscious, Inconscious, Preconscious, May 13, 2014

L4 Is there a joint in nature between perception and cognition?.mp4

Is there a joint in nature between perception and cognition?

Lecture 4 from Block's Jean Nicod Lecture series, Conscious, Inconscious, Preconscious, May 15, 2014

Two Forms of Higher Order Theories of Consciousness

Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, 2013

Panels

Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?

Panel Discussion on Large Language Models, with Ned Block, Kyunghyun Cho, Katherine Elkins, Noah Giansiracusa, Francesca Rossi, Dennis Yi Tenen, October, 2022

Is There Unconscious Perception?

Debate on whether there is unconscious perception with Marisa Carrasco, Hakwan Lau, Megan Peters, Ian Phillips, and me, 2017

Consciousness and Intelligence

MIT150 Symposium, panel discussion with Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch and Shimon Ullman, 2011

The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness

Center for Inquiry-New York City and New York City Skeptics presented a Darwin Day forum with Ned Block and Jacqueline Gottlieb, 2011

Block's at Mind & Reality

A panel at the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Consciousness, Columbia University, February, 2006

"Block Panel" interview of Quine

See the full series of the 1995 "Block Panel" here. In Section 3, Quine gives a very qualified endorsement of an inverted spectrum.

Interviews

Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind

Interview on Robinson's Podcast, December 2024. Excerpts of this interview are also posted here:

Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness

Closer To Truth Chats, July 10, 2024

What is Consciousness?

Closer To Truth

Partially Examined Life #223 (part 1)

Guest Ned Block on Consciousness, August 2019 (audio only)

Partially Examined Life #223 (part 2)

Guest Ned Block on Consciousness, August 2019 (audio only)

The Mind Body Problem: An interview with Ned Block

My Mind's Eye, Episode 1

What is the Mind-Body Problem?

Closer to Truth

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