http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/471786.stm http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/18/8036 I know that there are people who still deny that...
https://workshops.stanford.edu/cognitionandlanguage/event/20081204t001500?mini=calendar/2008-12 Did anybody catch that talk? It seems people are still arguing...
... I guessing that you don't understand why people deny that there are images in the brain. For if you understood what they are denying, you would realize...
... No, no, no. Those same idiots would still deny that there are any representations in the brain even if we decoded the output and long term memory of every...
... I don't think the fact that images are mapped onto the LGN of a cat proves that is what the cat sees anymore than the mapping of a webcam image into the...
... In psychology, the word 'behavior' means externally observable activity. I think most everyone would agree that Seeing (and Thinking) are Mental Activities...
... You know, no doubt, about the experiments in which subjects wear goggles that turn the visual field upside down. After a while, a few days of wearing them,...
Wouldn't this discussion be more productive if we could agree that my perception (or that of any homo sapien) of what my TV 'sees' is the image that it shows...
... That's true, and it's not "inaccessible, incomprehensible, unanalyzable" either. I am telling you folks that some pretty naive assumptions are preventing...
At the outset, those problems might seem as if they will remain philosophy forever. Do you know if there is any research to determine if color experience is...
[in which I give a conclusive answer to what makes an image in the brain] ... Okay, let me just say that there is no tomato in a photograph of a tomato. And...
I would like to update my knowledge of who is working on AI and how close they are to a breakthrough. List of Artificial Intelligence Researchers and projects ...
... Cool paper, Eray; very much in the tradition of Rieke, Warland, Bialek, and their colleagues. It shows at least 3 things: 1) High mutual information (in...
... So you get an image of my wife in the small square on the top-left hand side of your visual field. Do you recognize that image as being my wife? That is...
To provide focus you might be able to move the image around that is not a problem for the thought experiment I suggest :) Consider it right in the centre, if...
... But do they imagine that having a representation is seeing? That if we decode this represention we magically know what they are seeing? My point was it is...
... Of course it is subjectively variable. Otherwise there would be no such thing as color blindness. Perhaps you need to rephrase what you are asking....
... There are several kinds of statement one might make: (1) The brain contains information about the world; (2) The brain contains a representation of the...
... Is my green the same as your green? For instance. -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara Research Assistant, Erendiz...
... But that is not what I ask. In perfectly healthy two people, are their greens the same? -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent...
I think the most common mistake is that we tend to ask the wrong questions in phil. of mind. I've come to believe that people waste their time on unproductive ...
... Philosophising cannot tell you how the world is, for that can only from empirical investigation. It can pose questions. It can analyse the results of an...
... It's important if you are designing a telepathy hardware :D Best, -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara Research...
... What is important if you are designing telepathy hardware? A complete account of why the Self asks such a question or a complete account of the color ...
... I'm perfectly healthy. The fact that most of the worlds population have a different discrimination between blue and green is not a reflection on my...
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