Ach! Sorry for that. We're bound by availability of space at the center. One thing we aim in our workshop is to have a very strong neuroscience presence, and to create a space for serious dialog between philosophy and neuroscience.

Thanks for the hashtags, Keith!

Of course we talk about attention and action too (it is a show on free will!). If you're interested in the memory material it's discussed at more length in Movements of the Mind (chps. 3 and 4).

academic.oup.com/book/46088

Ruth's article can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The homunculus-inner ruler and all that I suspect (@sophisteuein.bsky.social). Within a well-defined neural network, ok. Would be interesting to track its development in neuroscience but we should question the usefulness of this division wrt psychological categories (e.g. "goal" as bias).

I would not advocate for a technical vocabulary that had as serious entries"top-down" and "bottom-up". Conceptual crutches, obfuscating.

I'm being slightly facetious here, but was it a single highway bottom to top? Perception on the ground floor, thought on the top? Nothing else?

The metaphor caught like wild fire (ok, mixing my metaphors). Maybe it was honest psycho-geography but why?

Historians of cognitive science, any ideas?

As part of "technicalization", I propose a logical structure for attention: m-attention to T for R, mode (m), target (T), and response (R).

So top-down, whatever it means (another issue!) is the mode, information is the target. R can be updated belief/credence/posterior, motor response etc.

How about: selection of information to guide behavior, with "behavior" understood broadly to include judgments, updating beliefs, forming memories as well as typical body stuff (orientation, movement)? Then, difference disappears.

This is, of course, a point about a term/concept, but the issue is not fussing about words...it's noting a problem in theorizing about attention. We should develop *technical* notions uniformly used in the field (cf. Shannon on "information" and information).

Hi Keith. Weird. No ebook is listed. I'll ask (alas, I didn't make it to Ireland, but will be in touch about hopefully connecting with you next year).