In Explaining What It’s Like I argued that any kind of higher-order theory of consciousness that wants to implement the higher-order strategy (which is explaining qualitative consciousness in virtue of our being conscious of our first-order states with qualitative properties) thereby commits itself to the claim that there is a qualitative …
Slate has a special issue out on “neuroscience and neuroculture”. (Link courtesy of Corey Maley.)
Here’s the link: Click to access rj10404.pdf
This is kind of random…I was reading a recent issue of Science and COnsciousness Review that talked about artificial senses which got me to thinking. If this stuff is right, and we are to count these things as really an additional sense, then it would seem to follow that we have been …
Here is an idea that Carl Gillett and I broach in some works in progress and which we presented (among other things) at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (and provoked by Richard’s exobiology post). In all explicitness, claims about realization and multiple realization should be indexed to levels. …
Recently there have been a lot of stories in the news about scientist’s finding water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet, and finding an extra-solar planet that they classify as habitableWhat is striking (to me) about these stories, besides the overal ‘cool factor’ of space stuff, is that these scientists …
Here. (If you haven’t read Dennett’s piece “Higher Order Truths about Chmess,” I recommend it.)
