I got an interesting letter from the grandmother of a child with hydranencephaly (reproduced by permission):Mr. Piccinini,Your response to Dr. Merker’s paper, Consciousness without a CerebralCortex: A Challenge for Neuroscience and Medicine, was educational anddisappointing. I appreciated the evaluation of phenomenal versuscreature consciousness and the application of state consciousness;however I …
As a factoid from intellectual history, there is reason to believe that Descartes would be much more sympathetic to the hypothesis of embodied cognition than his critics (e.g. Haugeland, 1998, Rowlands, 1999, 2003) and some of his supporters (e.g., Grush, 2003) have suggested. There is, for example, the well-known passage …
Thanks to Buddy, I came up with a way of reconstructing Bechtel and Mundale’s argument that does not rely on the tacit premise that univocal localization entails univocal realization. Recall that B&M state: Nevertheless, it is important to note that in interpreting these deficits, researchers implicitly reject multiple realization among …
William Bechtel and Jennifer Mundale make the following comment regarding lesion studies and multiple realization: Nevertheless, it is important to note that in interpreting these deficits, researchers implicitly reject multiple realization among human brains and assume that damage to a brain area in anyone will result in a deficit to …
