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A Methodological Science
(This is the third part – of four – of the talk ‘The Science Delusion’ and follows on from the introduction to (conventional, i.e. metaphysical) Physicalism in part 2 to return to the idea of science as a method introduced (through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Realism, Constructivism, Daniel Dennett, Descartes, dog, Human Brain Project, Instrumentalism, Karl Popper, Larry Laudan, Michael Polanyi, models, Non-Realism, Objectivity, Paul Feyerabend, Philosophy of Science, physicalism, Pragmatism, Realism, Rupert Sheldrake
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The Forest of Neurons
(This posting was not part of the recent talk ‘What I Know and Why I Know It’ but it serves as an extended introduction to part 3 of 3 of that talk, not yet uploaded.) Two major traditional concepts in the philosophy … Continue reading
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Tagged connectome, Human Brain Project, Human Connectome Project, neocortex, synthetic a priori, Tabula Rasa
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Could Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
This is the first part of the talk ‘Could Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ about machine consciousness. The complete talk will eventually be available here. 1.Science Fiction The title of this talk is obviously derived from the famous Philip K. Dick … Continue reading
Free Energy: Criticisms and Conjectures
This posting forms part of the talk ‘Intelligence and the Brain’. Here, I look at some criticisms of Karl Friston’s ‘Variational Free Energy’ theory and add some observations. 26. But Is It True? Argument: Friston’s ‘Variational Free Energy’ theory has … Continue reading
Talk: Intelligence and the Brain
What is ‘intelligence’? What is the brain actually doing? How is intelligence physically realised in the brain? Quite how the brain manages to achieve what it does remains elusive. It’s true that almost every day there are news stories that … Continue reading
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Tagged agents, Andy Clark, Bayesian brain, Blue Brain Project, chaos, Claude Shannon, connectome, cortical columns, Daniel Dennett, Donald Campbell, entropy, evolutionary epistemology, Extended Intelligence, Extended Mind, free will, Howard Gardner, Human Brain Project, Intelligence Amplification, Isaiah Berlin, James Surowiecki, Karl Friston, Karl Popper, Konrad Lorenz, Lamarck, maximum entropy principle, Maxwell's demon, negentropy, Paul MacLean, Philip Tetlock, physicalism, posentropy, prediction, Rodney Brooks, Sodium Potassium pump, subsumption, Tamar Gendler, Triune brain, variational free energy, W. Ross Ashby, wisdom of crowds
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Not Just a Pack of Neurons
The Neuron Doctrine Francis Crick famously said ‘you’re nothing but a pack of neurons’ and there are numerous projects underway to recreate a ‘pack of neurons’ (the network of neural interconnections, called the ‘connectome’) in computers. For example: The ‘Blue … Continue reading
Headbirths 