15.4.1890. My father dies. L.C. For those who do not know, those last two letters do not stand for Lower Case, but for Last Cigarette. This is an annotation I find in a volume by Ostwald on positivistic philosophy, with which, full of hope, I have spent many hours and never understood. No one would…
If I had stopped smoking, would I have become the strong, ideal man I expected to be? Perhaps it was this suspicion that bound me to my habit, for it is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent. I venture this hypothesis to explain my youthful weakness,…
I bought and read a treatise on psychoanalysis, just to make his task easier. It’s not hard to understand, but it’s very boring. consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience
Warm review by Jamin Pelkey in The American Journal of Semiotics of Marc’s Consciousness and the Philosophy of Signs: How Peircean Semiotics Combines Phenomenal Qualia and Practical Effects. On a different note, this very versatile thinker has the first critical but fair explication of Jordan Peterson available. Marc Champagne’s new book Consciousness and the Philosophy…
With the help of their webs, spiders are capable of foresight, planning, learning and other smarts that indicate they may possess consciousness. — New Scientist consciousnessExtended cognitionsituated cognitionStigmergy
The very excellent Melanie Mitchell in conversation with Russ Roberts. complexitycomputational intelligenceconsciousnessMelanie MitchellPhilosophy of mindRuss Roberts
My sometime collaborator, Ted Lewis, has co-authored this piece in American Scientist. AIcomputational intelligenceconsciousnessMachine learningneurosciencePhilosophy of mindTed Lewis
