Category: consciousness

  • Max Velmans on Kant

    Quotes from Max Velmans, Understanding Consciousness p. 202 «Uncertainty appears to be intrinsic to representational knowledge. Kant’s view that the thing itself in unknowable is nevertheless extreme.» p. 202 «We necessarily base our interactions with the world on the experiences, concepts and theories we have of it, and these representations enable us to interact with…

  • David Bohm on Thought, Perception and Matter

    Quotes from David Bohm, Thought as a System p. 146 “Thought’s participation produces all sorts of things. And it effects perception – what you think affects what you perceive outside and how you feel inside.” p. 146 “You see of feel something produced by thought, but then the next thought comes along and says ‘I’m…

  • Sense of Being Stared At

    My message to Formative Causation list. 20.04.2013 13:14 Sheldrake’s paper [1] on the sense of being started at was the first paper with which I have got acquainted with Sheldrake’s ideas. The paper was recommended me during a discussion of Velmans’ paper [2] (see also Velmans‘ book [3]). I am not sure that any new…

  • Once more on the world in the brain

    Recently I have raised Max Velmans’ question Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain? on the biosemiotics list. Two of my messages are below. 20.03.2013 11:04 There is my brain in a particular location. I do not experience it directly but I could touch my head with my hand. If…

  • Castration Anxiety and Penis Envy

    There is a continuation of The Story of Psychology and I have listened to a wonderful introduction into psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud. Now I have found a page with a short description about Freund written by Dr. C. George Boeree (the podcast is based on this works). http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html For fun: “About the time the little boy recognizes this archetypal…

  • 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 http://cogprints.org/6228/1/ASLAB-R-2008-004.pdf See also http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/b304b194f8a40ac8 p. 13 “A possible path to the solution of the increasing control software complexity is to extend the adaptation mechanism from the core…

  • 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…

  • 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…