Another Robot
A short report on a robot designed to experiment with its environment and learn “like a human infant,” based on neural network technology and testing neuroscience models. (Link courtesy of my student, Adam Hartke.)
Coma in Movies
Coma is a phenomenon that philosophers of mind should probably spend more time thinking about. As Reuters Health reports, a recent article in Neurology has found that most popular movies misrepresent coma, and most people don’t notice.
More on Philosophy Journals
A few weeks ago, I wrote a comment on which philosophy journals are considered best. Brit Brogaard has reminded me that there is a useful post with commentaries at Leiter Reports on which journals are well behaved and which aren’t.
Break
I’m out of town until the end of the month.
Central APA Highlights
Last weekend I was at the Central APA in Chicago. Here are some events I attended that may be of interest to philosophers of mind:Henry Jackman, in “Fodor on Concepts and Modes of Presentation,” argued that Fodor’s treatment of the publicity constraint on concepts is available to a certain kind …
What Is a Mind?
Last Saturday, in his Central APA commentary, Rick Grush raised this question and suggested it is the most fundamental question in the philosophy of mind. He also suggested that if you don’t understand this question and its importance you are missing something.I must be slow because I don’t think I …
Is the Brain Digital or Analog?
This is an old matter of debate in neuroscience, going back to the 1940s. The question has never been properly resolved. In my opinion, the question has never even been properly formulated.A recent study in Nature provides evidence that “in some sensory organs and invertebrate systems, neurons can also communicate …