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
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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…
Melanie Mitchell on Artificial Intelligence
The very excellent Melanie Mitchell in conversation with Russ Roberts. complexitycomputational intelligenceconsciousnessMelanie MitchellPhilosophy of mindRuss Roberts
Alan Turing’s Concept of Mind
Rajakishore Nath’s newly published paper in the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Alan TuringArtificial intelligencePhilosophy of mindRajakishore NathTuring test
Rationality and the true human condition
The fifth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Ron Sun The notion of rationality is important to many fields in social and behavioral sciences. Herbert Simon’s seminal work on “bounded rationality” and “satisficing” led to broadened conceptions of rationality, which significantly impacted a number of…
Embodied Functionalism and Inner Complexity: Simon’s 21st-Century Mind
The second in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Robert D. Rupert One can hardly underestimate Herbert Simon’s influence on contemporary cognitive science and empirically oriented philosophy of mind. Working with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon and the Rand Corporation, he wrote Logic Theorist and General Problem…
Action and Interaction
Due April 2020. actionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionenactivismintentionPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
Intelligence May Not Be Computable
My sometime collaborator, Ted Lewis, has co-authored this piece in American Scientist. AIcomputational intelligenceconsciousnessMachine learningneurosciencePhilosophy of mindTed Lewis
