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Dec 13, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Donald Hoffman
- Natural selection doesn’t build brains to see the truth
- How perception is like a graphical computer interface
- Don’s theory: It’s consciousness all the way down
- Is there a chicken-and-egg problem with this theory?
- Don describes his consciousness formula, sans math (phew)
- With this theory, life is more interesting—and painful
Nov 15, 2015 —
David Bryce Yaden & David Vago
TAGS Buddhism | cognitive science | meditation | mindfulness | psychology | religion | self | spirituality
Oct 4, 2015 —
Jonathan Phillips & Steven Frankland
- How the brain builds complex thoughts out of reusable parts
- More fodder for the brain-as-computer model
- Sorry, we’re not quite there with the mind-reading thing
- Possible reasons for the brain’s topographic organization
- Why Steven’s paper is controversial (and exciting)
- Cognitive neuroscience questions for the near future
Aug 4, 2015 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- The “strong AI thesis”: Can a machine think?
- Debating the usefulness of the Turing test
- Could your brain be swapped with a silicon replica?
- Massimo: You’ll never be able to upload your consciousness
- Digging into the famous “Chinese room” thought experiment
- Dan: Neuroscience won’t solve philosophy of mind puzzles
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