iGod
A student of mine found a bot that thinks it’s God. You can chat with it here. The conversation can be pretty funny at times.
Category: Mindcraft
Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
Memory and Language Workshop (II)
In addition to Corey’s helpful post, here is some information on the workshop sent to me by Sarah Robins of Washington University in St. Louis:The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University inSt. Louis has compiled a set of online annotated bibliographies on theinterdisciplinary study of memory and language. The resource can …
The Future of Irregular Past Tenses
Here.
How Baboons Think
A nice article from today’s NY Times.
Philosophy Carnival #54
Here.
What Exactly Is a Computer?
Anyone who is familiar with computational theories of mind (or brain), according to which the mind (or brain) is (analogous to) a computer, should agree that this is a good question (cf. John Searle, The Rediscovery of Mind, 1992, p. 205). For computational theories of mind to be formulated in …
CFP: Subjective Measures of Well-Being and the Science of Happiness
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
Subjective Measures of Well-Being and the Science of Happiness:
Historical origins and philosophical foundations
Date: February 2-3, 2008
Website:
Workshop organized by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics
and Values in the Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham