... That's interesting, so can we say that immediate consciousness is mostly short-term memory/plasticity of neocortex? I think it's just RAM. (Neuroscientist...
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scanlonray
Nov 15, 2011 7:14 pm
I started this thread to present an alternative to the classical view of the brain as an amorphous assemblage of neurons as a jack-of-all-trades master of none...
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scanlonray
Nov 15, 2011 7:30 pm
... We dob't report anything without a functioning neocortex, ... We are constrained to use the words we have in a desperate effort to communicate. We see the...
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jgkjcasey
Nov 15, 2011 8:15 pm
... Consciousness I imagine would require short term memory to hold the recent past and predicted future that make up the contents of what we are conscious of...
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jgkjcasey
Nov 15, 2011 8:56 pm
... For it....
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Ataturk's Spirit
examachine
Nov 15, 2011 9:35 pm
... Well, I think it is likely that some motor programs are present initially, but why should that be all the brain does? For starters, perception isn't a...
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jgkjcasey
Nov 15, 2011 10:32 pm
... In general though I would say that the brain starts with an evolutionary useful initial structure. There is a trade off between the time and resources to...
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scanlonray
Nov 16, 2011 3:41 pm
... A Motor Program is an exquitedly fashioned circuitry. No matter what is added Through life, The motor programs remain rock solid. There is plenty for the...
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jgkjcasey
Nov 16, 2011 8:55 pm
Computers have been utilized to solve academic level problems which have been abstracted into symbols and do not contain the machinery that enabled the ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 17, 2011 7:15 am
Whenever a philosopher claims that "science cannot explain X", he is willfully committing himself to future ignorance, or claiming a privileged "divine...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 17, 2011 10:22 am
This paper offers an informal axiomatization of AI. The same axioms are also axioms of intelligence in general, not just "artificial" intelligence. Since...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 18, 2011 6:04 pm
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-theorem-shakes-foundations-1.9392 Quantum theorem shakes foundationsThe wavefunction is a real physical object after all,...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 20, 2011 3:27 am
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/is-neuroscience-the-death-of-free-will/ Nahmias seems to argue that we need not eliminate free will but I...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 20, 2011 4:16 pm
It is like the difference between flight and airplane. Why is this so difficult to understand for philosophers? :) Obviously, both are completely physical, and...
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jgkjcasey
Nov 20, 2011 10:12 pm
It seems to me with this topic and the free will topic you are preaching to the converted? They are just not questions I think about anymore. JohnC...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 21, 2011 11:39 am
Yes, I suppose I am indeed doing that, but it's nice to provoke people every once in a while, and also because there are a lot of new members! Cheers, ... -- ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 22, 2011 6:10 am
The ignoramuses on analytic list have convinced me that most people are not intelligent enough to understand theory. So, perhaps a practical recourse is called...
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Sergio Navega
snavega
Nov 22, 2011 10:56 am
... One thing’s for sure: they would give excellent politicians. Sergio Navega From: Eray Ozkural Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:10 AM To:...
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Anssi Hyytiäinen
anssihyytiainen
Nov 22, 2011 10:08 pm
That is so naive it's depressing... It's a bit sad that some physicists feel compelled to make such childish comments towards ontology, they are clearly...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 23, 2011 11:52 am
I think that it's thought-provoking in that the Copenhagen interpretation is false on that through and through (i.e. that observations are real, but wave...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 23, 2011 11:55 am
I mean to say that in particular, the interpretation that the global wave function is real * in some way* (regardless of locality discussions) makes more sense...
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GD
fidiasma
Nov 23, 2011 5:38 pm
... Eray, if I may, imo this is a path that leads to unhappiness. Tell info and knowledge, explain why, say that something isn't so for such and such reasons....
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 23, 2011 6:07 pm
... I merely urge molecular biologists to commence with such crazy experiments, both for fun and fame :) I can't imagine how I would learn enough about...
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jgkjcasey
Nov 23, 2011 11:11 pm
... At the end of the day we are nothing but a space-time pattern of atoms and apparently the Universe is coming to a big fat nothing so ultimately nothing...
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Anssi Hyytiäinen
anssihyytiainen
Nov 23, 2011 11:44 pm
Well... Let's take a deep breath, and see if we can take a serious look at this issue. :) First, the reason I said they were making childish comments is that ...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 24, 2011 2:18 am
... I agree, but that's exactly why I want to humiliate creationists even further. They are dangerously stupid. I want to develop a device that will wipe their...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 24, 2011 2:40 am
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Anssi Hyytiäinen < ... I tend to think that non-locality has not been proven by any experimental setup, and that Einstein's...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Nov 26, 2011 3:40 pm
The proof of the thesis that "the brain is a quantum computer": It would have to be proven by showing one kind of operation which a classical computer cannot...
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Anssi Hyytiäinen
anssihyytiainen
Nov 26, 2011 4:08 pm
... Of course it has not been proven in any ontological sense. It's not the kind of thing that can be proven. It is just one way to represent particular...
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mlika hamdi
mlika_hamdi
Dec 1, 2011 5:08 am
Dear Collegues,  A new electronic jounal in Logic and Epistemology will appear in january 2012. Its name is AL-MUKHATABAT. The Journal accepts for...
