Here is the delightful Marianne Talbot (thrown out of school at 15 for “truancy and disruption”) presenting four podcasts: Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won’t Work Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face Part 3: If Physicalism won’t work, what is the alternative? Part 4: Are we asking the wrong questions?…
Hat-tip to Nola Semczyszyn for this. CognitionCognitive sciencePhilosophy of mind
Here is a recent paper freely available. And in the video below is my favourite (the greatest) dancer – she talks about her craft. Here are some previous dance-related/cognition postings. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionPhilosophy of mind
Here’s a two-parter with Hubert Dreyfus on embodiment – I haven’t listened to the whole talk but I recall first seeing Dreyfus being interviewed by the very excellent popularizer Bryan Magee some 25 years ago. Artificial intelligenceBryan MageeCognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionHubert Dreyfusphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Check out philosopher Dan Lloyd’s film project. On the film site there are several videos of different brain states worth watching. Dan is, of course, no stranger to using other modalities to communicate his thoughts on consciousness – his book Radiant Cool is a classic in the genre. Inside each of us, at every moment, a symphony…
Here’s a draft of a forthcoming paper I chanced across. CognitionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
The book was published today. Here is the publisher’s webpage and the Amazon page. CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityFriedrich HayekHayekhebbphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychology
The latest issue of JMB is now available. It features an exchange between Bence Nanay and Osamu Kiritani. bence nanayjournal of mind and behaviorPhilosophy of mind
Namit Arora in a themed issue of Philosophy Now considers the complexity of consciousness and its implications for artificial intelligence. But despite the big advances in computing, AI has fallen woefully short of its ambition and hype. Instead, we have ‘expert’ systems that process predetermined inputs in specific domains, perform pattern matching and database lookups, and…
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