Philosophers’ Carnival #71
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What Are the Ten Most Elegant and Decisive Neuroscience Experiments?
Can you help me identify the ten most elegant and or decisive experiments in the history of neuroscience?I think that HH’s voltage clamp I/V measurements make it in. Perhaps the freeze fracture experiments demonstrating vesicular release.
Ethics and Free Will Survey
There is a new survey up at Experimental Philosophy. They are looking for both philosophers and non-philosophers. I just took the survey and invite you to do the same.
Philosophers’ Carnival #70
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An Information Taxonomy
Below is a tentative and rough taxonomy of notions of information relevant to psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, and specifically, to whether computation is information processing.1. Shannon information. The notion defined by his communication theory. The more unlikely an event is relative to its alternatives, the more Shannon information it …
What Sorts of People blog
I wanted to let readers of Brains know of a new blog that I’m involved in, the What Sorts of People blog: check it out. This is the blog for the What Sorts of People Should There Be? network. It is a collaborative blog with regular contributions from around 10 …
Describing Inner Experience
As I explain in my review of this book at NDPR, Hurburt and Schwitzgebel have published a ground-breaking book on the collection and use of data from first-person reports. A good antidote against “armchair introspection” (a favorite of some philosophers of mind). I recommend it to anyone interested in this topic, …