Posts from the founder of Brains, Gualtiero Piccinini.
In the recent thread, the issue of modularity was discussed. Anibal wrote the following: “My humble view is that the brain is a brilliant plastic and distributed machine using one single module to more than one cognitive function and viceversa.”This reminded me of some recent, interesting work along these lines …
A Brood Comb has collected an impressive list of philosophy online videos, many of which pertain to the philosophy of mind.
A few days ago, I asked whether the mind is in the head. Counting only reasonably unambiguous answers (and counting one vote per commenter), as of right now Brains readers answered as follows:Yes: 11 votesNo: 6 votesUpdate: You may find some more comments here and here.
Next spring, I’m teaching a cross-listed upper undergraduate/graduate course on consciousness for the first time. I’d like to strike a good balance between philosophical and scientific readings. Does anyone have suggestions as to what is a must-read in the huge literature on consciousness? From an informal survey, it seems to me …
Philip Robbins sent me the link and asked the question in the title. You should see it .
A (nontechnical) review of recent work in neuroethics.
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 …
