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Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
Old review. Dennett wrote me that he thought it the best written review he’d gotten in yonks. It’s been reprinted along the my other Dennett review in Daniel Dennett, Edited by John Symons, Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. brain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDaniel Dennettjohn symonsneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Uploading the mind
Yet another article on techno-ebullience. Alva NoëArtificial intelligenceBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid ChalmersDerek ParfitDescartesdistributed cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindRay KurzweilSingularityStephen Hawking
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Old review Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnesscyborgsdistributed cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindStigmergy
Turing: “He invented the idea of software, essentially”
This in The Washington Post. Alan TuringArtificial intelligenceconsciousnessFreeman Dysonphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindTuring machineTuring test
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
New York Times Brainbrain scienceCognitive neuroscienceconsciousnesshumeNeurobiologyNeurophilosophyneuroscienceOliver Sacksphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindProsopagnosia
The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System
Here is a review of István Aranyosi’s recent book, a contribution to the latest issue of JMB, Vol. 35 No. 3 Summer 2014. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismIstván Aranyosijournal of mind and behaviorMichael Madaryphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Review CognitionDaniel Dennettdarwinmemeticsnaturalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindReligionReligion & Spiritualityreligion and science
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
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