Weekend Entertainment
Marc Hauser’s lab has a webpage where they conduct a moral sense test. More tests are listed in the end page.
Category: Mindcraft
Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
The Ontology of Creature Consciousness
In a previous post, I asked whether creature consciousness might be ontologically more important, including as part of the ontological basis for phenomenal consciousness, than many philosophers seem to think. I was motivated in part by “Consciousness without a Cerebrain Cortex: A Challenge for Neuroscience and Medicine,” a forthcoming BBS target article …
The Churchlands in the New Yorker
The last issue of the New Yorker has a long profile of Paul and Patricia Churchland. This is a must-read for anyone who is not well acquainted with the history of the Churchlands. Unfortunately, the article gets some important aspects of the background history wrong. For instance, it suggests that …
Are Quantum Computers About to Hit the Market?
Mmh… Probably not yet. (Link courtesy of Mike Ferreira.)
Stephen Stich at UMSL
Last Friday, Stephen Stich gave a talk at UMSL. I was especially happy because I’m a big fan of Stich’s work.For those who may not know, Stich has been engaged for decades in a campaign against certain armchair methods in philosophy, such as certain forms of “conceptual analysis” based on …
Do Universal Turing Machines Execute Programs?
Corey Maley raised some doubts on Brain Hammer, and I offered my reasons for a (qualified) positive answer. If anyone has any thoughts on this, I’d be interested in hearing them.
Philosophers’ Carnival #42
Here.