Daniel Kahneman and David Chalmers on this panel. There are other discussions of relevance as well on this site. Artificial intelligenceBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceColin McGinnconsciousnessDaniel KahnemanDavid ChalmersneurocorrelatesNeurophilosophyneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindrobotszombies
David Deutsch on AI In my view it is because, as an unknown sage once remarked, “it ain’t what we don’t know that causes trouble, it’s what we know that just ain’t so.” I cannot think of any other significant field of knowledge where the prevailing wisdom, not only in society at large but among…
Nagel in The Nation Tye in 3:AM CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindmichael tyeneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiathomas nagel
Check out this essay forthcoming from the power team of Clark, Kilverstein and Farina. Sensory substitution devices are a type of sensory prosthesis that (typically) convert visual stimuli transduced by a camera into tactile or auditory stimulation. They are designed to be used by people with impaired vision so that they can recover some of…
Coming soon (an unlikely cover for an OUP book). AttentionCognitive scienceconsciousnessJesse PrinzMind–body problemneurosciencePerceptionPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind
Greg Dunn is one of a growing group of artists taking inspiration from neurons. H/T to Natalie Geld for the pointer. ArtGreg DunnneuroscienceVisual Arts
Coming soon in Behavioral and Brain Sciences – a target article by Andy Clark: Abstract: Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming sensory inputs with top-down expectations or predictions. This is achieved using a hierarchical generative model that aims…
Here is a video piece commemorating a decade since Varela’s passing with some lovely footage of him speaking. Though it’s titled as part 1, I can’t find the subsequent parts and I can’t find anything on the associated website. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionEpistemologyExtended MindFrancisco Varelaneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasocial epistemologyVarela
Here is a recent paper kindly brought to my attention by the author. To achieve the aim of establishing the case for externalist neuroeconomics, I rely on other approaches to externalism in the cognitive sciences which focus on the role of external causal processes establishing mental phenomena in terms of interactions between neuronal states and…
Ken Aizawa’s contribution to the Extended Mind special issue of CSR: The hypothesis of extended cognition maintains that cognitive processes sometimes span the brain, body, and world. One of the most prominent types of arguments for this hypothesis begins with observations of the role of certain sorts of bodily and environmental influences on cognitive processes,…
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