I don't really follow how consciousness in a child could be the result of applying 'mentalist schemes'? Even I have never applied a mentalist...
It is not intended to explain anything. It just does away with the need to explain why human subjects should have experiences and rock subjects...
So this is where it matters which event in the brain is a conscious X of a sort that is connected up to our discussions in a way that its content...
OK, so there are lots of layers to this that need teasing out for a detailed analysis. Chalmers's definition of consciousness says nothing about...
Actually Minsky does not attribute any consciousness or point of view to any of the members of his 'society'. The title is 'Society of Mind'...
I agree that a high proportion of metaphysics is bullshit. Although Leibniz was 'critiqued' by Kant as too fond of 'pure reason' he was in fact a...
Yes, that is exactly what modern field theory says. A diamond is a composite of a wide range of types of Planck's quanta of action.
But we understand brains without reference to their consciousness. The whole point about science and philosophy is that they consist in...
My definition of consciousness is the biomedical one and the one used by most philosophers - in line with Chalmers's famous definition: X is...
Biocentrism looks like a mish mash of old popular ideas. Even Berkeley did not hold that nothing was there without us - because it would exist in...
I fear we may get into deep water here and nothing much to do with ethics but at least Diane is familiar with my published writings on...
I don't think I have any particular take on that. Sorry.
I am not convinced and don't really see why this is likely. If I go on an exercise bike and get a tachycardia and short of breath I am no more...
I think it is just window dressing to counter accusations of bullying and exploitation. It is a manifestation of the 'job-using' of science....
I don't think that is the question that all the fuss is about. The brain creates an illusory redness when objects that reflect or transmit or emit...
That's correct. The standards by which PACE was designed were not the accepted standards of the time by any stretch of the imagination. They were...
In view of the current reproducibility crisis in psychology I am not sure how reliable any of these reports are, but it seems likely that...
Indeed. It is an indication of what airheads run science these days.
They get away with it because it is considered to be the right way to think by the grand masters of the field - people like Damasio (sorry...
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