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I just discovered that the view that everything in the universe is a computing system is “now often called” ‘pancomputationalism’, as Vincent Mueller puts it.  Mueller is right.  As of today, Googling ‘pancomputationalism’ generates 195 results, beginning with the omnipresent wikipedia article (titled “digital physics”).  I had no idea; for all I knew, I …

Vincent Mueller has posted a note on digital states at Interdisciplines. Below is my brief commentary…

The European Science Foundation has been working on ranking academic journals in various disciplines.  Here are their brand new rankings of journals in philosophy and in history and philosophy of science.I recently spoke with a member of the committee that ranked philosophy journals.  He explained the ESF criteria as follows:Journals that …

Carl Craver, Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience, OUP, 2007. The book has been  released in Europe.  Americans will have to wait a few more weeks, though they can pre-oder it at Amazon. I observed the development of this book from its very beginning, and I …

Results published in the last issue of Science, as reported in today’s NYT.

Wired reports that in a paper just published in Biophysics Journal, two physicists suggest that neurons communicate by sending pressure waves (rather than electrical signals, as everyone else believes) through their axons.  (Link courtesy of Blake Myers.)