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What is episodic memory good for? | Corona Radiata
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Brains, Politics, Whatever …. Skip to primary content. What is episodic memory good for? June 22, 2014. Imagine you are a brilliant technician, and that you have the tools to design a wonderful robot,. 2001 a Space Odyssey). Although you act as Ralph’s tutor, you also give the it 20 years of exploration and experience, to learn about the world. After 20 years, what would Ralph be like? How would it resemble a person? How would it be different? Note that, in the description of Ralph’s brain, I didn&...
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Is IIT Consciousness a One-Way Street? | Corona Radiata
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Brains, Politics, Whatever …. Skip to primary content. Is IIT Consciousness a One-Way Street? June 12, 2014. Integrated Information Theory (IIT). There’s lots to discuss and argue about here. But I’d like to take this one step further. Let’s accept all that IIT offers, and accept the special panpsychism of IIT that “solves” the hard problem. What do we get? An observer without action. A conscious entity that can “feel” its current state, but cannot act. Another way of saying this is that IIT has proposed...
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BAM and the Molecular Ticker Tape | Nucleus Ambiguous
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Mind of science / science of mind. BAM and the Molecular Ticker Tape. That does seem to be in some flux) appeared in the New York Times last week. There are apparently many scientists involved in the project, but Harvard molecular biologist George Church. And Columbia neuroscientist Rafael Yuste. Seem to be the ones taking calls from the media and bending the ears of presidential advisors. I recently talked to a scientist who was a post-doc in the Yuste Lab. Head of the Bayesian Behavior Lab. In Nature (...
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The Metaphor of the Deep Diver | Corona Radiata
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Brains, Politics, Whatever …. Skip to primary content. The Metaphor of the Deep Diver. August 3, 2014. For me, there are two great guiding metaphors. The first is Plato’s “ allegory of the cave. As I see it, this is metaphor of understanding the mind, especially the mysteries of the unconscious. The clearest description I’ve found is not in Moby Dick itself, but in a letter Melville wrote to Evert Kuyckinck in 1850. While writing Moby Dick. Melville elaborates on his criticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Morning Rumination on Consciousness | Corona Radiata
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Brains, Politics, Whatever …. Skip to primary content. Morning Rumination on Consciousness. August 17, 2014. While lying in bed this Sunday morning a few thoughts on consciousness. Came to me. Morning insights can be useful or vapid not sure which these are. But they’ve stuck in my head, like a tune that keeps replaying. I’d like to share them and discuss them. Three semi-awake assertions:. A conscious agent must be able to make a statement of fact. Consciousness is an act of communication. A rock fallin...
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Components of Personal Identity | Corona Radiata
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Brains, Politics, Whatever …. Skip to primary content. Components of Personal Identity. March 30, 2014. Components of Personal Identity. 8220;I was born; I will live on a linear trajectory through space and time; I remember many of the events along that timeline. I will die sometime in the future”. This is essentially Locke’s contribution.I am the person who lived the narrative of my life. (Locke on personal identity. I can change the world in certain ways, not in others.”. 8220;Can I lift that large box?
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Are There Levels Out There? – Scientia Salon
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Philosophy, Science, and all interesting things in between. Are There Levels Out There? Are There Levels Out There? August 3, 2015. Bull; ( 39. But are there really levels in nature? Do levels have a substantial role in scientific theories and explanations, or philosophical analyses? It is more accurate and unambiguous to describe them simply in terms of components and mechanisms, especially since the term level brings along unwanted intuitions, such that there is a single molecular level in the mechanism.
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Why the Pseudonym? | Physicalism
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Thinking about Physics, and the Physics of Thinking. A Gedankenexperiment on Speciation. The ACLU defends Christians →. January 26, 2013. It seems that Jerry Coyne has banned me. From commenting at his Why Evolution is True website (see how civil I am? I didn’t even call it a “blog”) because I am criticizing his arguments on my own blog under a pseudonym. He’s just published a couple new “roolz”. That make this a bannable offense. In the old days, they told us to never use our real names online. 3) I wor...