Author: Evgenii Rudnyi
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DNA to represent proteins
Recently I have read Bas C van Fraassen Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective where a representation is defined as p. 21 “Z uses X to depict Y as F” Does it make sense to say “Z uses” when Z is not a human being? For example, what is a meaning of a sentence “a robot…
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Rainbow as Public Hallucinations
From Bas C van Fraassen Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective p. 98 ‘The ‘window into the invisible world’ metaphor has dominated modern philosophical thinking about science as much as the «mirror of nature» metaphor dominated modern epistemology and metaphysics. It will serve us better to dislodge or at least weaken its grip on philosophical discourses,…
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Evolution and German Idealism
Ken Wilber, The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion “In all these tales, the overall direction of the universe’s unfolding is unmistakable: as if following some second law of religious thermodynamics, the spiritual universe is running down. In the actual unfolding of the universe’s history, we humans (and all creatures) were once…
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Consciousness in Cognitive Architectures
Below there are quotes from and small comments to Carlos Hernández, Ricardo Sanz and Ignacio López Consciosusness in Cognitive Architectures A Principled Analysis of RCS, Soar and ACT-R p. 13 “A possible path to the solution of the increasing control software complexity is to extend the adaptation mechanism from the core controller to the whole…
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Aping Mankind
Raymond Tallis, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity On the everything-list Craig has written his expression about this book and I have decided to read it. I am personally annoyed by statements from science that we are just biological machines and I have decided to read the opposite camp. Craig’s recommendation happens to be…
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Maxwell on Metaphysics and Theology
Jordi Cat Into the ‘regions of physical and metaphysical chaos’: Maxwell’s scientific metaphysics and natural philosophy of action (agency, determinacy and necessity from theology, moral philosophy and history to mathematics, theory and experiment) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43 (2012) 91–104 Abstract Maxwell’s writings exhibit an enduring preoccupation with the role of metaphysics…
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Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology
Justin L. Barrett, Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds The book is a bit ideologically loaded but it is written nicely and there is a logic in what the author says. A big part of the book is devoted to an overview of cognitive science. The discussion on whether cognitive science…
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Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics
Galen Strawson, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics A review by Thomas Nagel, The I in Me http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/thomas-nagel/the-i-in-me “Galen Strawson’s book Selves, a work of shameless metaphysics“ A review by Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24233-selves-an-essay-in-revisionary-metaphysics/ Strawson’s paper in Internet that is close to the idea of the book http://www.imprint.co.uk/strawson.htm From Section 1.7 Thing, object p.…