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- Subject: New electronic magazine - Psyche
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.235527.13374@phillip.edu.au>
- From: x91007@phillip.edu.au
- Date: 14 Dec 92 23:55:27 EST
- Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)
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- Announcement: New Electronic Magazine 'Psyche'.
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- I am interested in starting up a electronic magazine
- exploring broad issues relating to consciousness and the
- mind. I hope to explore these issues in an interdisciplinary
- way - using approaches and insights from psychology,
- philosophy, anthropology, computer science and mathematics.
-
- Examples of some of the general areas that Psyche will cover
- are: the mind-body problem; altered-states-of-consciousness;
- psychoactive drugs; shamanism; dream states; hypnosis;
- artificial intelligence; meditative states; ecstatic
- religious states; blindsight; language and mind.
-
- In an attempt to offer a grounding in some of the central
- themes of Psyche, major review articles of influential
- ideas/books/movements will also be solicited. Examples of
- what these might be are: John Searle's Chinese Room Problem;
- Daniel Dennett's book 'Consciousness Explained'; Gordon
- Wasson's theories regarding Soma; Roger Penrose's book 'The
- Emperor's New Mind'.
-
- While Psyche will not be peer-reviewed this does not mean
- that it will become a haven for New Age/Lunatic Fringe ideas.
- I have just completed a BSc Honours majoring in psychology,
- and I am currently studying the way the brain codes the
- position of objects. I would like to balance by skills with
- others and so am particularly interested in getting in
- contact with people with backgrounds in either computer
- science, philosophy or anthropology to act as sub/co-editors.
-
- While the date is obviously tentative I would like to get the
- first issue of Psyche out by March 1993. It will be produced
- in ASCII and hopefully postscript. As tends to be the nature
- of electronic journals clarity, rather than length, will be a
- critical factor in deciding which articles are accepted.
-
- So if your interested in: helping, supplying copy,
- subscribing (at least for the first edition), or simply
- offering advice please contact me directly at the address
- below. In your reply please let me know where you read about
- Psyche.
-
- Yours sincerely,
- Patrick Wilken
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- x91007@phillip.edu.au
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