I was interviewed for a column appearing in today’s Wall Street Journal on an intriguing case of possible conscious states in a vegetative patient (“There May Be More To a Vegetative State Than Science Thought” by Sharon Begley). In the case in question, scientists recorded brain activity in a vegetative …
Jeff Dauer showed me this Scientific American article (by Philip Ross) on the cognitive psychology of expertise. An easy, fun, and rewarding read. Bottom line: work hard at it for about 10 years, and you’ll master it.
new web page dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience
Here.
Why is there little work on the phil of psychiatry?
A topic that has received increasing attention in the last few years is hypercomputation (see also the Wikipedia article), a term coined by Jack Copeland for the computation of functions that are not computable by Turing machines. Real numbers are often invoked in recipes for hypercomputation. I have tried to explain my skepticism …
I’ve just finished a paper corresponding more or less to my 2005 Eastern APA talk on the Physical Church-Turing thesis. The topic is a bit far from the concerns of mainstream philosophers of mind, but still relevant. It’s about what can be physically computed, which is relevant to what can …
