Category: consciousness
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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…
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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…
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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
Citations from Tallis – Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. Aristotle: Brain to Cool the Blood. Religion and Biologism. Surroundedness of an Organism.
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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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Neuroscience as Science of Thought?
Discussion on whether neuroscience could explain thinking. It is based on quotes from Collingwood – An Essay on Metaphysics. Also I discuss neuroscience and consciousness.
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Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?
Quotes from Max Velmans, Understanding Consciousness. Quantum Dualist Interactionism. On Popper Objective Knowledge. Mental and Physical. On Kant. Enactive theories of perception. Reflexive Monism.
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Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem
Quotes from Jeffrey Gray – Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem. The World is Inside the Head. Perception, Qualia and Hard Problem. Illusions of the Will.