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lördag 22 juni 2013

Modernism

The reason for the success of the moderns
One of the problems the medievals had was that they tried to solve too much at once. For them, motion was kinesis, all actualization of potentials. So an orbiting planet, a ripening apple, and a maturing puppy dog were all in motion. Try digging a theory of motion out of that, monkey boy.

So the moderns broke it all up into separate problems. They reduced motion to local motion: to change only of location from change in general. The morphogenesis of a puppy dog became a different problem, addressed be it noted with different tools. The tools of physics are not entirely suited to the puppy dog. This way they could make stunning progress within a limited domain.
http://tofspot.blogspot.se/2013/06/if-only-tool-you-allow-yourself-is.html

tisdag 21 maj 2013

Eliminative Materialism

Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people's common-sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist. Some eliminativists argue that no coherent neural basis will be found for many everyday psychological concepts such as belief or desire, since they are poorly defined. Rather, they argue that psychological concepts of behaviour andexperience should be judged by how well they reduce to the biological level. Other versions entail the non-existence of conscious mental states such as pain and visual perceptions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/

söndag 21 april 2013

Artificial Intelligence

Is the Brain a Digital Computer? 
Syntax is not Intrinsic to Physics.
The Homunculus Fallacy is Endemic to Cognitivism.
Syntax Has No Causal Powers.
The Brain Does Not Do Information Processing.
John R. Searle - UC Berkeley
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lshapiro/web/Phil554_files/SEARLE-BDC.HTM