Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Here are two things Dennett says about heterophenomenology: (1) Scientists should interpret a subject’s first-person reports as expressions of the subject’s beliefs (about their consciousness experience)(2) Scientists should treat people as incorrigible about what it’s like to be them. Since (2) seems to contradict Dennett’s often repeated claim that people …
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In a new paper by Andrea Scarantino and me, we outline the relations between cognition and (different notions of) computation and information processing, as well as the relations between the different notions of computation and information processing. To my knowledge, this has not been done before (except in an earlier, less sophisticated …
At the last Eastern APA meeting in Philly, I attended an excellent session on The Epistemology of Experimental Practices, with Allan Franklin and Marcel Weber. During the discussion, I asked whether scientific methods and data should be public – that is, whether different investigators applying the same methods to the …
