Philosophy Carnival #51
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Are your brains BIG?
Hi,I just found out that the students of cogsci (here in Helsinki) are arguing passionately (greetings to Ilmari + guys) about this story: https://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=166So, does the size of brains matter/correlate with the IQ… This may be a complicated question, and I was just thinking what the situation with the current comparative study is right now. …
Thanks for the Feedback
A couple of weeks ago, I asked whether anyone would comment on a paper of mine on connectionist computation. Several people contacted me and later sent me very hepful comments. Many thanks to them.I’ve now used Brains to receive helpful comments on my work several times, and I know other contributors have …
Every Thing Must Go
At the beginning of July, OUP published a new book by James Ladyman & Don Ross (with contributions from John Collier and David Spurrett) on naturalistic metaphysics, informed largely by current science. They are criticising the armchair way of doing metaphysics, and promoting a science-based account to develop a kind …
News from the NY Times
Why people have sex.An article about recent research on priming and how unconscious processes affect our behavior.A long article on sociable robots.
Skepticism about AI
I just found this article by computer scientist Peter Kassan in the magazine Skeptic, entitled “AI Gone Awry: The Futile Quest for Artificial Intelligence”. Even though there are a few minor glitches and a more negative attitude towards AI than I have, I think Kassan’s article is a nice, updated debunking of …
Binocular rivalry: more data
Figure 1a from a new paper in Nature Neuroscience, Heirarchy of cortical responses underlying binocular rivalry, from Heeger and others. They performed an interesting fMRI study of binocular rivalry (when a different visual stimulus is presented to each eye, you don’t see a fusion of the two stimuli, but a …