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Discussion of Turing Test
A discussion on the BBC World Service (H/T to David Livingston Smith).… more →
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On David Deutsch on AI
wrote 7 months ago: Physicist David Deutsch has an interesting article on AI in aeon magazine. I thank Ant for bringing … more →
Ironic science, pragmatism, and the "is best viewed as" argument
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wrote 10 months ago: I’ve read a couple of interesting books recently, one was “The End of Science” by … more →
Discussion of Turing Test
wrote 11 months ago: A discussion on the BBC World Service (H/T to David Livingston Smith). … more →
The tragic life of Eugène Marais
wrote 1 year ago: I first came across a reference to Eugène Marais in Andries Engelbrecht’s very excellent Compu … more →
Unity of Consciousness
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wrote 1 year ago: In a History and Systems course we studied quite a bit about the systems of psychological thought th … more →
The Semantics of Brain Computations
wrote 1 year ago: In his paper “The Semantic Challenge to Computational Neuroscience”, Rick Grush claims that “there i … more →
Information storage in the brain
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wrote 1 year ago: The problem of information storage is raised by Cornelius Hunter in a post at UD and at his own blog … more →
Mario and Meaning
wrote 1 year ago: My father is really the source of my existentially curious side. Anyone who knows him is aware that … more →
Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain's secrets
wrote 1 year ago: I’m very much in favor of this kind of research but I find it telling that the speaker mentions at t … more →
Getting information
wrote 1 year ago: In an earlier post, I wrote: That leaves, as one of the basic problems for a cognitive agent, the pr … more →
Eliminative Embodiment
wrote 1 year ago: Here is a paper I wrote for a class on the philosophy of mind this summer: An organism and its envir … more →
David Rumelhart (1942-2011)
wrote 2 years ago: Stanford University News New York Times I Programmer Rumelhart was enormously important in the 1980s … more →
On the idea of massive modularity, or, coming around to computationalism
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wrote 2 years ago: I feel weird saying this, but I am actually coming around to the idea of “modularity”, p … more →
AI as applied philosophy
wrote 2 years ago: Here’s a snappy piece by Alva Noë on man vs. machine. Is the ant smart? Or stupid? Maybe neith … more →
Lego Turing Machine
wrote 2 years ago: Turing machine: this via my chum David Livingstone Smith. … more →
The Mind as Neural Software?
wrote 2 years ago: Here is a superb paper by Gualtiero Piccinini that brings much needed clarity to a longstanding issu … more →
Robots and machine intelligence.
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wrote 2 years ago: So I went to a lecture on Friday by Dr. Roger Brockett, hosted by CIM and the Faculty of Science at … more →
Shifting Paradigms: An Interesting Conversation with Eric Thomson
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wrote 3 years ago: Eric Thomson and I are currently having a stimulating conversation over at his blog neurochannels. I … more →
Paranoia, paranoia. Everybody's trying to get me... it might not be rational but it's what I believe
wrote 3 years ago: The big project of Artificial Intelligence is computationalism. Can we create a formula (or series … more →
