Funniest Philosophy Joke Ever?
Philip Robbins sent me the link and asked the question in the title. You should see it .
Author: Gualtiero Piccinini
Neuroethics Article
A (nontechnical) review of recent work in neuroethics.
Extended Mind Poll
Is the mind in the head?As someone recently pointed out on this blog, there is a large stream of recent books defending the view that mental states, or processes, or systems, extend beyond the nervous system. It would be interesting to know how many people, or at least how many …
Research Tools
Benoit Hardy-Vallée has put online a page with many search engines and resources that some may find useful for their research. To see it, go to https://bhv.direct.to and click “research tools”.
Philosophy Carnival # 36
Here.
Computation without Representation
As some of you may know, I am engaged in a long-term campaign against the view that concrete computations (computational states, computing mechanisms) are individuated, even in part, by their semantic properties. Of course, computations may be interpreted, i.e., assigned semantic content, but this is not part of their individuation. …
Feeling Someone Behind You Who Is Not There
Culture Dish comments on a fascinating finding by Swiss researchers, published in Nature and reported by the National Geographic. “[A]s a result of focal electrical stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction,” … they induced “[t]he strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present”.