Turing: “He invented the idea of software, essentially”
This in The Washington Post. Alan TuringArtificial intelligenceconsciousnessFreeman Dysonphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindTuring machineTuring test
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Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
New York Times Brainbrain scienceCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnesshumeNeurobiologyNeurophilosophyneuroscienceOliver Sacksphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindProsopagnosia
Ex Machina
Very positive reviews: The Guardian The Telegraph The Independent New Scientist AIArtificial intelligenceCognitive scienceconsciousnessex machinaPhilosophy of mindqualia
Adam Smith on Sensory Perception: A Sympathetic Account
The intro to Brian Glenney’s chapter: The aim of this chapter is to propose an account of sensory perception from the known writings of Adam Smith, chiefly his juvenile work, “On the External Senses.” This account asserts that when we perceive an object we simulate its painful or pleasurable effects on our body—we imaginatively place…
Reviews of Stoppard’s The Hard Problem
New Scientist The Economist The Telegraph The Independent . . . and the original Chalmers paper. brain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid ChalmersneurosciencePatricia Churchlandphilosophical literaturephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiathe hard problemthomas nagel
Must cognition be representational?
William Ramsey in Synthese CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid Marrdistributed cognitionExtended MindFolk psychologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrepresentationalismsituated cognition
Indulgent Sympathy and the Impartial Spectator
The into to Joshua Rust’s chapter: Cognitive neuroscience is in the midst of what has been called an “affective revolution,” which places empathy at the center of a core set of moral competencies. While empathy has not been without its critics (Bloom, 2013; Prinz, 2011), both the radicals and the reactionaries routinely cite Adam Smith’s…
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?
Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasituated cognition
Retrieving Realism
Speaking of Being in the World this (prima facie) is what one would call a philosophy publishing event. charles taylorCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid HumeDescartesdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgedonald davidsonEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyHubert DreyfusKantnatural kindsphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindquinerealismRetrieving RealismRortysituated cognitionWittgenstein
Are You Your Brain, and Is Your Brain a Computer?
Andy Clark talk. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
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