Philosophers' Carnival #112
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The Journal of Visualized Experiments
This website was just brought to my attention. It is the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), an “online research journal employing visualization to increase reproducibility and transparency in biological sciences”. It’s interesting and potentially quite useful. Does anyone have any thoughts on it?
Can You Make a Conscious Machine?
I am writing a thesis on the possibility of machine consciousness (e.g., the possibility of creating a silicon-based system that has subjective, qualitative experiences in the same way we take ourselves to have them). In my informal (and very limited) polling, it seems that many philosophers are sympathetic to the …
Aizawa on Turing-Equivalent Computation and Cognitive Science
In a previous thread, Ken Aizawa suggests that I’m insufficiently pluralistic about computation in cognitive science and to substantiate his criticism he points to his forthcoming article “Computation in Cognitive Systems; It’s not al about Turing-Equivalent Computation” (available on his website). Having read Ken’s nice paper, I only have time …
Subtyping and Multiple Realization
As many of you may know, I have been thinking about the following problem for a while: Suppose that scientists discover a high level property G that is prima facie multiply realized by two sets of lower level properties, F1, F2, …, Fn, and F*1, F*2, …, F*m. One response …
Philosophers' Carnival #111
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Where Does "Biological Psychology" Come From?
I recently realized that the label “biological psychology” is quite popular among some psychologists, including at my university. For example, there are core courses, journals, and textbooks with that name. “Biological psychology” is used as roughly synonymous with “behavioral neuroscience,” which is another label popular in the same circles and explicitly refers …