This Is Philosophy of Mind: 2014

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Two Mandik videos on Searle and artificial intelligence

From Pete Mandik's Brain Hammer blog:

http://petemandik.blogspot.com/2014/10/two-new-mandik-videos-on-intentionality.html

Monday, September 22, 2014

Captain Metaphysics and the Ghost in the Machine - Existential Comics

Captain Metaphysics and the Ghost in the Machine - Existential Comics:

Short video: Dennett's Multiple Drafts Theory of Consciousness

Dorian Electra & The Electrodes - What Mary Didn't Know (Official Video)

Rock video about Frank Jackson's "Mary" thought experiment:

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Philosophy Videos by Pete Mandik

Follow this link for a youtube playlist of philosophy videos by Pete Mandik, author of This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Non-materialist neuroscience - RationalWiki

Non-materialist neuroscience - RationalWiki
EXCERPT:

Non-materialist neuroscience is one of the latest fronts in the war on science. The battle has been a long time coming and it is surprising it has taken so long to get going. Modern neuroscience is rapidly reducing much of human thought, emotion and behavior into component pieces of neuronal interactions. The combination of computational modeling and non-invasive imaging of living brains has allowed researchers to begin describing how complex thought emerges from the firing patterns of neurons. In a way, neuroscience is the death knell of dualism. When materialist causes become both necessary and sufficient to explain all of human thought then parsimony dictates that references to a soul or other supernatural entities can be tossed out.