I was looking in my doc/articles directory and I saw this post which I wrote on comp.ai and comp.ai.philosophy a long time ago after I reviewed Minsky's talk...
Hello guys, I was thinking of what ozge had told me in person. Can we make a great argument that shows, without flaw, the circularity in behaviorist's ...
Even if behaviorism was true, people probably wouldn't accept it purely on emotional grounds, because if love could be reduced that way, life wouldn't be worth...
Suppose someone, secure in the magnificence of his own expertise, comes up with the theory that anyone who disagrees with him must be stupid. Furthermore,...
... great ... behaviorist's ... subject is ... the naivete ... language long ... assumption. ... Finally, they ... I don't agree. Although Skinner was out of...
... I think there is a plausible emotional ground other than admitting a system of values based on emotions. That is simply the existence of emotional, ...
... I appreciate the motivation but it has quickly degenerated into an "impenetrable" and in my opinion very counter-intellectual dogma as you have explained. ...
My point was to highlight the difference between truth and what people need to believe in order to function. Even if truth has no limit, belief does. Say I...
... Just to be clear: I'm not talking about the traditional psychological difficulties people have had with new discoveries (like the Church with Galileo). I'm...
Your suggestion that I argue Quine's views took me by surprise, and when I read your academic challenge to explain Quine, my mind went characteristically...
Greetings, Is not existence mostly a subjective concept? I suspect a good deal of our metaphysics rests on defining existence in one convenient aspect among...
For what's it worth, what I find difficult in the matter of existence is that we could posit existence as consciousness, but if we treat consciousness as a...
This question is (surprise?) addressed by researchers working on brain-computer interfaces. Last night I've seen such an interface in action (on TV, of...
Hello there, Here are some clarifications to "Multism" I had posted on c.a.p. in response to Fred's excellent questions. The important part of the post is that...
Hi, I think you might want to take some time to read this: incredible experimental and theoretical papers which investigate the computational properties of the...
All data can be interpreted as symbolic data. Sensory data, for example, does not come off the shelf imbued with all its potential meaning; the meaning of...
... From: Jim Bromer <jbromer@...> [...] ... That is indeed the big problem. But I wouldn't say that reasoning (whatever that really means) is the big...
... interactions ... I don't want to belabor the issue but you did not seem to understand what I was getting at. From the point of view of the design problem,...
From: Jim Bromer <jbromer@...> ... This is quite a claim, although I am at your side here. I know quite a lot of researchers who would strongly disagree...
I was a little careless when I read your fist message. I am glad you took the time to make some more remarks. I believe is that we need to develop more...
Jim, I pretty much understand all you said in your message and, apart from some naming differences, what I think follows this structure. However, one of the...
I am also interested in the problems of naïve learning as well, so I would like to hear more about the ideas you are working on. It will be sometime before I...
After a few conversations with some people in a few different groups, I realize that I have to make some corrections. When I said that my solution to the...
Hello there, On c.a.p., I have been talking about cognitive universals and now I want to make a very brief summary of what I think are cognitive universals. I...
Could you explain what you are talking about? Jim Bromer ... conept. ... conceptualizations of ... learning, ... system. (ie, ... a LoT ... means to...
... OK. I remember this point raised by philosophers of computation. I think there should be an article about this in Computationalism: The Next Generation,...
... If you think Godel contradicted the law of the excluded middle, this may mean you have not carefully read Godel's own philosophical work. You might want to...
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