It’s been two years since this volume was published. Austrian SchoolBrainCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExternalismFriedrich HayekHayek in Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiarationalismRoad to Serfdomsituated cognitionSpontaneous order
Here is yet another recent EMT or HEC book that I chanced upon. Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasituated cognition
The latest issue of JMB is now available. Two articles have caught my attention: “Deep Naturalism: Patterns in Art and Mind” by Liz Stillwaggon Swan and “Problematizing Tye’s Intentionalism: The Content of Bodily Sensations, Emotions, and Moods” by Juan J. Colomina ArtCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitive scienceintentionalityjournal of mind and behaviorJuan ColominaLiz Stillwaggon Swanmichael tyenaturalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
Michael Graziano in Aeon Magazine I believe that the easy and the hard problems have gotten switched around. The sheer scale and complexity of the brain’s vast computations makes the easy problem monumentally hard to figure out. How the brain attributes the property of awareness to itself is, by contrast, much easier. If nothing else,…
This article from the latest issue of JMB. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdualismmind-bodymind-brainpanpsychismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
Here is Searle, still the master performer after all these years. He hasn’t dimmed an iota since I saw him in London in 1989. Artificial intelligenceChinese RoomCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdualismEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasearle
My chum Lenore Ealy I know to be a fan of Bourbon. She very kindly left me some Eagle Rare Single Barrel to polish off. I thought it very smooth but a bit on the sweet side for me – a damn good effort though. She told me of a piece she’d recently written on bourbon so…
Save the Date Artificial intelligenceBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDavid Chalmersdistributed knowledgeEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualiaStuart Hameroff
Here are a couple of extracts from Giandomenica Becchio’s paper: In the Preface of The Sensory Order, Hayek stated that this book was based on his readings in psychology during 1919–1920, when he was still a young student in Vienna interested in both psychology and economics. Among many others, Hayek explicitly cited Mach’s influence on…
The video of this discussion very kindly brought to my attention by Alex Kealy at The Institute of Art and Ideas. For more on Strawson see the very excellent review of his Consciousness and its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? by my chum and occassional collaborator Chris Onof. chris onofCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessGalen StrawsonInstitute of…
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