Deep Blue simulates half a mouse brain
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Do Horses Sense Their Rider’s Desires?
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 …
Realization, Multiple Realization, and Levels
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. …
Just Like Home
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 …
Philosophy Carnival #46
Here. (If you haven’t read Dennett’s piece “Higher Order Truths about Chmess,” I recommend it.)
Are Causal Facts Observable?
I just read John Earman and John Roberts’ interesting papers defending Humean Supervenience about laws of nature, in PPR 2005. They argue that facts about which generalizations are nomic supervene on non-nomic observable facts. Their argument is that without such supervenience, it would be impossible to find empirical justification for …