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Building Better Zombies8 comments

James wrote 10 months ago: I’m warning you… David Chalmers relies in no small way upon his so-called ‘philoso … more →

Tags: Bite-sized Philosophy, Mind, Consciousness, Dennett, chalmers:, Galen Strawson, zombies

The Hard Problem(s) of Minds2 comments

James wrote 1 year ago: The explanatory gap, that is The 1980-90′s proved to be the decades of consciousness studies i … more →

Tags: Bite-sized Philosophy, Mind, Consciousness

Neuroscience and philosophy must work together

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Part of the Guardian’s Hard Problem series. … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Neurophilosophy, Neuroscience, Barry Smith, the "easy" problems, Cognitive Science, cognition

Hayek in Today's Cognitive Neuroscience

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Check out Joaquín Fuster’s recent paper: Only now, more than half a century after the publicat … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Hayek, Fuster, Neurophilosophy, distributed knowledge, Neuroscience, qualia

Can science ever explain consciousness?

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Anil Seth, Chris Frith and Barry Smith (of Birkbeck, not Buffalo!) outline the topography in a podca … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Neurophilosophy, Neuroscience, neurobiology, qualia, cognitive closure, behaviorism

Colin McGinn: All machine and no ghost?

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Colin McGinn locates his position within philosophy of mind. Though not a fashionable position, I … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Hayek, Idealism, Neurophilosophy, Descartes, Colin McGinn, Neuroscience

What Consciousness is Not

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Tallis on Chalmers … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, David Chalmers, Raymond Tallis, zombies, The Conscious Mind, the "easy" problems

The life of the mind

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Interview with Dave Chalmers … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, Brett Evans, the "easy" problems

Soul Dust, the Magic of Consciousness

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: The first of Nicholas Humphrey’s Pufendorf Lectures plugging his new book. Here is a recent re … more →

Tags: Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Neurophilosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, neurobiology, qualia, Mind & Body, Cognition

Hayek, Weimer, Gibson and Rosch

manwithoutqualities wrote 1 year ago: Here is the flyer from the legendary conference convened by Walt Weimer - the other notables include … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, philosophy of mind, Hayek, Connectionism, qualia, the sensory order, Mind & Body, Brain Science, Robert Haskell

Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Hayek and Gibson

manwithoutqualities wrote 2 years ago: Here are some fuzzy but nevertheless recognizable Polaroid photos taken at the now legendary confere … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, philosophy of mind, Hayek, Connectionism, qualia, the sensory order, Mind & Body, Cognitive Systems, Brain Science

Brain-Body-Mind

manwithoutqualities wrote 2 years ago: Here is the recently published book by my chum Erol Başar who as it happens is also contributing to … more →

Tags: brain, Brain Science, Churchland, cognitive closure, Cognitive Science, Colin McGinn, complex adaptive systems, Connectionism, Consciousness

Mind vs Machine

manwithoutqualities wrote 2 years ago: Here is an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic. … more →

Tags: Consciousness, personal identity, philosophy of mind, turing, Robots, Mind & Body, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, Computational Intelligence

Burge: A Real Science of Mind

manwithoutqualities wrote 2 years ago: Yet another installment on mind in the NYT – this time from the highly distinguished and very … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Neurophilosophy, Neuroscience, neurobiology, Cognition, Brain Science, brain

The Character of Consciousness

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 years ago: Surely the biggest publishing event in mind – well since this one. … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Philosophy, Epistemology, extended mind, Dennett, chalmers:, Neurophilosophy

Qualia - The Movie

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 years ago: I recently brought your attention to the topic of consciousness in literature. I now want to draw yo … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, qualia, cognitive closure, Cognition, Complexity, Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Systems

How long until robots are running off with someone's wife?

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 years ago: An article from Silicon.com pitched at a general audience. I love the last photo caption: How long u … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Robots, cognitive closure, Complexity, emergence, Artificial Intelligence, robotics, situated cognition

The Phenomenal Qualities Project

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 years ago: I want to bring your attention to The Phenomenal Qualities Project. With a Whose Who of theorists in … more →

Tags: Cognitive Science, Consciousness, philosophy of mind, Embodiment, Neurophilosophy, social cognition, Psychology, Neuroscience, Daniel Dennett

Hayek in Mind

manwithoutqualities wrote 3 years ago: Here is an interview with the editors of Advances in Austrian Economics. … more →

Tags: advances in austrian econmics, behaviorism, brain, Brain Science, cognitive closure, Cognitive Modeling, Cognitive Science, Complexity, Computational Intelligence


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