13 ideas
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
23514 | The cerbellum has a huge number of neurons, but little involvement in consciousness [Seth] |
23513 | Single neurons can carry out complex functions [Seth] |
23516 | Maybe a system is conscious if the whole generates more information than its parts [Seth] |
8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
23519 | The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social [Seth, by PG] |
8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
23518 | Modern AI is mostly machine-based pattern recognition [Seth] |
23517 | Volition is felt as doing what you want, with possible alternatives, and a source from within [Seth] |
23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |
1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |