Why Machines Will Never Rule the World Artificial: Intelligence without Fear
Barry Smith (and coauthor) has an about-to-be published book. Artificial intelligenceBarry SmithcomplexityPhilosophy of mind
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Colin Blakemore: 1944-2022
Back in the day I enjoyed Blakemore’s BBC series (with accompanying book) The Mind Machine, several episodes available on YouTube. Also well-worth a read (coedited with Susan Greenfield) is the book Mindwaves: Thoughts on Intelligence, Identity, and Consciousness. See the obit On Colin. Cognitive sciencecolin blakemoreconsciousnessneurosciencePhilosophy of mindsusan greenfield
By ‘Appointment Only,’ Even After Death
Philosopher UT Place donates brain to University of Adelaide after dedicating his life to studying the mind consciousnessPhilosophy of mindUT Place
The Cognitive Dimension
The always subtle (philosophically, historically, and most especially, sociologically) Stephen Turner. His piece is freely available here. Cognitive sciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindStephen Turner
Karl Friston on embodied cognition
Karl gives a quick overview of the field with more than a nod to the philosophical aspect. Karl was the one who did an MRI and fMRI scan of me 20 years ago: The software failed that day and I was stuck in the scanner for at least an hour or so. Not a pleasant…
The Divided Brain
Entertaining conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Sam Harris. Cognitive scienceconsciousnessIain McGilchristneurosciencePhilosophy of mindsam harris
Chess as Played by Artificial Intelligence
A terrific overview of the history of chess machines. It brought back memories of several of those iterations. Article is freely available here. Artificial intelligencechessPhilosophy of mind
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm
This recent documentary is freely available here. consciousnessdavid bohmPhilosophy of mindQuantum mechanicsRoger Penrose
Champagne’s Unified Theory of Consciousness
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…
. . . but our brain can’t understand the picture
Hayek already wrote in The Sensory Order (1952) that “An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself” and that “The whole idea of the mind explaining itself is a logical contradiction’’. Hayek takes this incompleteness — the constitutional inability of mind to explain itself — to be a generalized case of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. See…
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