MENTALESE TALKS
SPLIT BRAIN AND UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Furkan Avcı - İrem Şahin
5th of September 2020, Saturday, 21:00 (GMT+3) Discord
In the first episode of Mentalese Talks, our teammate Furkan Avcı, a student of Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, discussed what split-brain cases tell us about our awareness and consciousness, and different approaches to the topic with the moderation of İrem Şahin.
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WHAT DOES SIGN LANGUAGE TELL US ABOUT COGNITION?
Muharrem Ayar - İrem Şahin
4th of October 2020, Sunday, 21:00 (GMT+3) Discord
In the second episode of Mentalese Talk, Muharrem Ayar, a linguistics student at Boğaziçi University and a member of our team talks about the relationship between sign language and cognition, with İrem Şahin's moderation. You can listen to this podcast in which the topics such as how the language is processed by the mind, how do the natural and artificial languages come into being and what they have to do with other mental processes are discussed using the link below.
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WHAT DOES SIGN LANGUAGE TELL US ABOUT COGNITION?
Işıl Sanusoğlu - İrem Şahin
7th of November 2020, Saturday, 21:00 (GMT+3) Discord
In the third episode of Mentalese Muhabbet, Işıl Sanusoğlu who is a psychology major and a computer engineering minor at the Bahçeşehir University talks about artificial consciousness with the moderation of İrem Şahin from Flaps Club. You can listen to this episode which mentions many topics in the combination of consciousness and artificial intelligence, such as discussions on what consciousness is, the possibility of artificial consciousness, and the reflections of these discussions on different areas of life such as cinema and video games.
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HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
İmge Saltık - İrem Şahin
12th of December 2020, Saturday, 21:00 (GMT+3) Discord
The 4th episode of Mentalese Talks took place with the contributions of İmge Saltık from Bilkent University Neuroscience Master Program, and also a member of CogIST, and with the moderation of İrem Şahin from Flaps Club. They talked about the human-robot interaction and how we can develop more human-like robots. You can listen to the podcast by the link below!
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THE FUTURE OF NEUROLAW
Zeynep Kabadere - İrem Şahin
7th of March 2021, Sunday, 21:00 (GMT+3) Discord
The 5th episode of Mentalese Talks took place with the contributions of Zeynep Kabadere from METU Depatment of Philosophy, and also a member of CogIST, and with the moderation of İrem Şahin from Flaps Club. They talked about the future of neurolaw. You can listen to the podcast by the link below!
WHAT IS COGNITIVE SCIENCE?- WHAT IS IT NOT?
Yunus Şahin - İrem Şahin
5th of June 2021, Saturday, 21:00 (GMT+3) Discord
The 6th episode of Mentalese Talks took place with the contributions of Yunus Şahin who is a member of CogIST, and with the moderation of İrem Şahin from Flaps Club. It was discussed where cognitive science ends, how it differs from other psychological sciences, and what contributions its sub-fields make to cognitive science. You can listen to the podcast titled ""What is cognitive science?- What is it not?" by the link below!
