Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language Michael Egnor July 19, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 18, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal Are Birdsongs Language? Michael Egnor July 18, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 7 Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 15, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, animal intelligence, animal personhood, common sense, David Hume, human intelligence, Jeffrey Shallit, language, Nature David Hume Notwithstanding, Abstract Thought in Animals Is a Myth Michael Egnor July 15, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 6 Abstract thought in animals is a cultural myth at the heart of the Darwinian understanding of man. Read More ›
inexperienced-painter-painted-having-problems-the-concept-of-221681715-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 14, 2016 CategoriesMetaphysicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __nedited, aboutness, Cartesian dualism, consciousness, David Chalmers, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, hylomorphism, intentionality, materialism, mind, neuroscience, Reductionism, René Descartes, self-awareness, sensations, Thomism What Is Consciousness? Michael Egnor July 14, 2016 Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind 7 René Descartes in the 17th century created the Hard Problem of consciousness, out of whole cloth. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 12, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal languages, designators, ethology, human language, language, mimicry, semantic information, signal Do Animals Have Language? Michael Egnor July 12, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 7 Some animals, after sufficient training by human researchers, use signals that mimic language. But mimicry is not language itself. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 11, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, brain processes, computation, computational processing, consciousness, intentionality, machine cognition, machine metaphor, meaninglessness, methodological materialism, mind-brain problem, self-awareness Your Deluded Brain Thinks It’s Conscious! Michael Egnor July 11, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 6 Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. This is just in from Princeton's Michael Graziano. Read More ›
Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date June 14, 2016 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, Research, science New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved — It Arose as a Solution Cornelius Hunter June 14, 2016 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 1 This is teleological thinking. Somewhere Aristotle is smiling. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date June 7, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , __tedited, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, computational power, expertise, human intelligence, human mind, intelligence, machine intelligence, meaninglessness, Overruling Intelligence, Watson Watson’s Goof — What We Should Really Fear from AI Brendan Dixon June 7, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 8 It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 3, 2016 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, Health & Wellness, News, Research, science In Reversing Stroke Damage, a Stunning Success for “Anti-Science”? Wesley J. Smith June 3, 2016 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 1 Once again the damned-with-faint-praise field of adult stem cell research seems headed toward significant treatment breakthroughs. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date May 20, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, brain processes, computational reductionism, human intelligence, human mind, hype, machine metaphor, meat machines, mimicry, Overruling Intelligence No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer Brendan Dixon May 20, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 5 AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence. Read More ›
