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 …
Why people have sex.An article about recent research on priming and how unconscious processes affect our behavior.A long article on sociable robots.
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 …
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 …
Benoit Hardy-Vallee, of the University of Toronto, has posted a review of decision making from the point of view of neuroeconomics on his blog, Natural Rationality. The article is forthcoming in Philosophy Compass. Benoit is hoping to receive feedback on his article before it gets published. He also told me …
A team at the University of Alberta, led by Jonathan Schaeffer, has solved the game of checkers. Through brute force calculations, they have shown that when played perfectly, checkers results in a draw. As a consequence, their checkers playing program, Chinook, is now unbeatable by either human or machine. Checkers …
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