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Rudy Garns

Where is my mind? - 0 views

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  • Is what my robot does when it ‘decides’ to change course a sort of thing which if it had happened inside the robot, ‘I would have had no hesitation in accepting as part of [a] cognitive process?’
  • But how am I to understand the hypothesis that it would (or wouldn’t) have changed course if it had collided with the couch in my head?
  • His real argument is that, barring a principled reason for distinguishing between what Otto keeps in his notebook and what Inga keeps in her head, there’s a slippery slope from the one to the other.
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  • The mark of the mental is its intensionality (with an ‘s’); that’s to say that mental states have content; they are typically about things.
  • What I should have said isn’t that only what’s literally and unmetaphorically mental has content, but that if something literally and unmetaphorically has content, then either it is mental (part of a mind) or the content is ‘derived’ from something that is mental. ‘Underived’ content (to borrow John Searle’s term) is the mark of the mental; underived content is what minds and only minds have.
  • Externalism needs internalism; but not vice versa. External representation is a side-show; internal representation is ineliminably the main event.
  • your internal model of the world contains stuff that the world itself does not; this happens not just when your beliefs are false but also when they are hypothetical (‘if there are clouds, there will be rain’ can be true even if there aren’t any clouds); or when they are modal (‘it might rain’ can be true even if it doesn’t rain); or when they are in the past or future tense (‘it used to rain here a lot’ can be true even if it doesn’t rain here anymore).
  • Rudy Garns on 06 Feb 09
     
    There is a gap between the mind and the world, and (as far as anybody knows) you need to posit internal representations if you are to have a hope of getting across it. Mind the gap. You'll regret it if you don't. (Jerry Fodor review of Clark)
Rudy Garns

Supersizing the Mind (review) - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 09 Feb 09
     
    Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension, a recent book by philosopher Andy Clark is reviewed by Melvyn Goodale in Nature, and I pass on some clips from his review, because Clark's views exactly mirror the sentiments expressed in my Biology of Mind Book. (Deric Bownds' MindBlog)
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Biased minds make better inferences. - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 02 Mar 09
     
    a biased mind can handle uncertainty more efficiently and robustly than an unbiased mind relying on more resource-intensive and general-purpose processing strategies (Deric Bownds' MindBlog)
Rudy Garns

The Origin of the Mind - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 20 Aug 09
     
    The first step in figuring out how the human mind arose is determining what distinguishes our mental processes from those of other creatures
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The Mind Project - 0 views

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Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 15 Sep 09
     
    there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
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Cognitive science research to revolutionize the legal system - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 25 Jan 10
     
    What if a jury could decide a man's guilt through mind reading? What if reading a defendant's memory could betray their guilt? And what constitutes 'intent' to commit murder? These are just some of the issues debated and reviewed in the inaugural issue of WIREs Cognitive Science, the latest interdisciplinary project from Wiley-Blackwell, which for registered institutions will be free for the first two years. In the article "Neurolaw," in the inaugural issue of WIREs Cognitive Science, co-authors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Annabelle Belcher assess the potential for the latest cognitive science research to revolutionize the legal system.
Rudy Garns

The 'I' Illusion - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 28 Jan 09
     
    This talk mulls over how/why human's construct these things we call a self or an "I" .
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What Makes the Human Mind? - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 08 Nov 08
     
    Across the board, Hauser says, there are signs that animal evolution passed along some capabilities "and then something dramatic happened, a huge leap that enabled humans to break away. Once symbolic representation happened, if the combinatorial capacity was there, things just took off. Precisely how and when this happened, we may never know." (November-December 2008)
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Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior - New York Times - 0 views

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  • Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, proposed in his book “Moral Minds” that the brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for acquiring moral rules, a universal moral grammar similar to the neural machinery for learning language.
  • Frans de Waal defends against philosopher critics his view that the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes.
  • human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies
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  • other chimpanzees would console the loser.
  • Social living requires empathy
  • reconciliation
  • human morality may be severely limited by having evolved as a way of banding together against adversaries, with moral restraints being observed only toward the in group, not toward outsiders.
  • Capuchin monkeys show their displeasure if given a smaller reward than a partner receives for performing the same task
  • Chimps are more likely to share food with those who have groomed them.
  • These four kinds of behavior — empathy, the ability to learn and follow social rules, reciprocity and peacemaking — are the basis of sociality.
  • People enforce their society’s moral codes much more rigorously with rewards, punishments and reputation building. They also apply a degree of judgment and reason, for which there are no parallels in animals.
  • eciprocity and fairness
  • reason is generally brought to bear only after a moral decision has been reached
  • Morality, he writes, is “a sense of right and wrong that is born out of groupwide systems of conflict management based on shared values.” The building blocks of morality are not nice or good behaviors but rather mental and social capacities for constructing societies “in which shared values constrain individual behavior through a system of approval and disapproval.”
  • Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others.
Rudy Garns

Do the Impossible: Know Thyself - 0 views

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  • Two main questions arose in my mind during the neuropsychiatric conference. The first was whether any scientific self-understanding was possible. The second was whether, if possible, it was desirable. My answer to both questions was, and is, no.
    • Rudy Garns
      Rudy Garns on 02 Apr 08
       
      Notice the question is whether ANY scientific self-understanding is possible, not just whether we have one now or whether neuroscience alone will provide all the answers.
  • difficult even to conceive of what a scientific self-understanding would actually be like
    • Rudy Garns
      Rudy Garns on 02 Apr 08
       
      So what? Why should we assume we can conceive of it prior to achieving it? It might be complicated. Perhaps it is the wort of thing we approximate over a long period of time through the scientific endeavors of lots of people.
  • How does one develop a universal law that explains an infinite number of unique events that are infused with meaning and intentionality?
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      Rudy Garns on 02 Apr 08
       
      I doubt it will require a single universal law to understand human nature, or the mortivations for human behavior. At best we might develop theories that allow us to predict human behavior fairly accurately. We already try to do this personally; neuroscience, genetics, etc., should enhance those abilities considerably.
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  • Nothing is important or significant but conscious thinking makes it so: the type of thinking, moreover, that employs moral categories that are inherently non-natural.
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      Rudy Garns on 02 Apr 08
       
      it certainly doesn't seem right that conscious thinking lies behind our moral (or other) values. But even so, why would that make them non-natural?
  • already been answered
  • The fact is that, however many factors you examine, you cannot fully explain behaviour, not even relatively simple behaviour.
    • Rudy Garns
      Rudy Garns on 02 Apr 08
       
      Do we need to fully explain behavior? Is it full explanation or nothing? Might there not be value in partial explanations?
  • Rudy Garns on 02 Apr 08
     
    Is it to be full understanding or nothing? I should think there would be some value in enough understanding to make useful predictions. His position is that a scientific understanding of man is undesirable, but I thinnk there is something very desirable about useful predictions.
Rudy Garns

Antonio Damasio: This Time With Feeling - 0 views

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