Digital Future: Meaning of Digital
(2005) Video (90 minutes) of presentation recorded on January 31, 2005 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC for C-SPAN, part 4 of their series 'Managing Knowledge and Creativity in the Digital Context'.
Effing the Ineffable
(2021) Video recording (85 minutes) of presentation to weekly seminar of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society in Toronto, Ontario on Augutst 19, 2021.
Reckoning and Judgement: The Promise of AI
(2020) Video recording (83 minutes) of presentation given on January 27, 2020 at the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities at Yale University.
Deference, Humility, and Awe
(2014) Video recording (71 minutes) of talk given on October 25th, 2014 at the University of Toronto Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Mind (UTism) on the topic of 'Church and Mental State: Perspectives on Cognitive Science and Religion' hosted by the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Students Association (CASA).
Is consciousness representational?
(2015) Video recording (111 minutes) from January 27, 2015. The Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Students' Association (CASA) and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Toronto present the inaugural session of the Mutual Relevance Lecture Series: in which two professors from different disciplines discuss together an issue relevant to Cognitive Science. In this session Dr. John Vervaeke, from the Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Science and Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health Programs, and Dr. Brian Cantwell Smith, from the Faculty of Information, will be discussing consciousness.
Metaphors for Mind
(2017) Video recording (20 minutes) of talk on June 19, 2017 at the YHouse Summit at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.