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 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…
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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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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?
Nowadays one can often hear that neuroscience can explain everything about a human being. The external physical world interacts with human sensory systems, natural neural nets in the brain get excited and this in turn causes excitation of muscles. Modern science has found nothing else in a human body, hence when we would like to…
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Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?
The title is taken from Max Velmans, Where experiences are: Dualist, physicalist, enactive and reflexive accounts of phenomenal consciousness, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Number 4 (2007), 547-563 In the paper, the reflexive model of perception is suggested. “In most respects Figure 3 is the same as Figures 1 and 2. As before,…
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Turing Test and Female Hormones
Quotes from Jaron Lanier on Turing Test from his book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, 2010. From the chapter The Apple Falls Again. “The second thing to know about Turing is that he was gay at a time when it was illegal to be gay. British authorities, thinking they were doing the most compassionate…