Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

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on a computational foundation for the study of cognition is now available online for free. (The link to O’Brien’s paper seems to be broken; hopefully it will be fixed soon.) The two subsequent special issues should be opened up shortly.

The blog site for the daily (hourly!) postings from the Turing Centenary Summer Institute on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness hosted by the Cognitive Sciences Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal, June 29 – July 12 will be: https://turingc.blogspot.ca/ Turing-Consciousness has a Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/TuringConsciousness as well as …

After way too many years since I initially wrote it, I recently published a paper on the physical church-turing thesis in BJPS. The paper argues that computation properly so called must be usable by an observer such as human beings to generate desired values of a function. When this point is made …

In a recent blog post, Ian accuses me of being “instinctively a strong dualist.” His reason seems to be that I affirm that the self persists in normal circumstances but does not persist under teleportation. Unfortunately I could not follow his reasoning. I hold that from moment to moment, we persist as …