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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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Scientific Creatures
In which I try to create a bigger picture of general intelligence by combining a number of different concepts. These concepts are: Ashby: W. Ross Ashby’s concept of ‘Intelligence Amplification’. Brooks: Rodney Brooks’s concept of the ‘Subsumption Architecture’. Clark: Andy … Continue reading
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Tagged agents, alief, Andy Clark, Daniel Dennett, evolutionary epistemology, exocortex, Extended Intelligence, Extended Mind, Free Energy, general intelligence, Intelligence Amplification, James Surowiecki, Karl Friston, Karl Popper, Konrad Lorenz, Rodney Brooks, subsumption, Tamar Gendler, W. Ross Ashby, wisdom of crowds
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Free Won’t
This is the second part of the talk ‘Free Will / Free Won’t’. Notes in the text in the form [ABC] can be found by following the above link. Previously: Daniel Wegner’s ‘Conscious Will’ has been presented as a physicalist … Continue reading
Talk: Free Will / Free Wont
Most people will assert that they feel they have free will yet most contemporary philosophers and neuroscientists, when pressed for an opinion, will suggest it is just an illusion. Some will half-joke that we only have ‘free won’t’ instead. If … Continue reading
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Tagged alief, Benjamin Libet, Claude Shannon, conscious will, cryptography, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Wegner, Facilitated Communication, free will, free won’t, information theory, John-Dylan Haynes, physicalism, Rodney Brooks, Stanley Milgram, subsumption, Tamar Gendler
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