We’re excited to release the fifth of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …
We’re excited to release the fourth of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …
Mindcraft is a series of opinion posts on current issues in cognitive science by Brains Blog founder Gualtiero Piccinini. Do you agree? Disagree? Please contribute on the discussion board below! If you’d like to write a full-length response, please contact editors Dan Burnston and Nick Byrd. Recent Progress on Explaining Intentionality Gualtiero Piccinini Cross-posted …
We’re excited to release the third of seven sets of videos from “A Beginner’s Guide To Neural Mechanisms” — a joint project with Neural Mechanisms Online. These and the other six sets of videos are from experts in Cognitive Science, each released on a Friday this semester. Our experts will …
By: Will Bridewell, Naval Research Laboratory Alistair M.C. Isaac, University of Edinburgh (View all posts in this series here.) We would like to thank Mona-Marie, Marta, and Matthias for their thoughtful (and thought-provoking!) commentaries. There is too much for us to discuss fully in a single post, but we have …
By Mona-Marie Wandrey and Marta Halina, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (See all the posts in this series here.) We regard the proposal advanced by Will Bridewell and Alistair Isaac as a unique and promising methodological framework for advancing empirical progress in consciousness science. The …
By Matthias Michel, Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, New York University (View all the posts in this series here.) Bridewell & Isaac’s idea is ‘refutation by implementation.’ If a model implements a theory of consciousness, that theory is wrong: “the ability to encode the core principles of a theory …
