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TEDxRheinMain - Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger - The Ego Tunnel - YouTube - 0 views

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    Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explored by Germanphilosopher and cognitive scientist Metzinger. Extensively working with neuroscientists he has come to the conclusion that, in fact, there is no such thing as a "self" -- that a "self" is simply the content of a model created by our brain - part of a virtual reality we create for ourselves. But if the self is not "real," he asks, why and how did it evolve? How does the brain construct the self? In a series of fascinating virtual reality experiments, Metzinger and his colleagues have attempted to create so-called "out-of-body experiences" in the lab, in order to explore these questions. As a philosopher, he offers a discussion of many of the latest results in robotics, neuroscience, dream and meditation research, and argues that the brain is much more powerful than we have ever imagined. He shows us, for example, that we now have the first machines that have developed an inner image of their own body -- and actually use this model to create intelligent behavior. In addition, studies exploring the connections between phantom limbs and the brain have shown us that even people born without arms or legs sometimes experience a sensation that they do in fact have limbs that are not there. Experiments like the "rubber-hand illusion" demonstrate how we can experience a fake hand as part of our self and even feel a sensation of touch on the phantom hand form the basis and testing ground for the idea that what we have called the "self" in the past is just the content of a transparent self-model in our brains. Now, as new ways of manipulating the conscious mind-brain appear on the scene, it will soon become possible to alter our subjective reality in an unprecedented manner. The cultural consequences of this, Metzinger claims, may be immense: we will need a new approach to ethics, and we will be forced to think about ourselves in a fundamentally new way. At
franstassigny

la philosophie peut elle amener l'être humain à décider - 0 views

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    la philosophie peut elle amener l'être humain à décider en toute connaissance de cause de la direction à suivre, existe t'il ce point d'équilibre où l'être atteint à une décision dans la simplicité conquise ou doit il surmonter le fatras qui est aussi bien extérieur qu'intérieur à lui même, si cette idée a quelque existence car ne sommes nous pas pris dans le flux ? indépendamment des pulsions, caractères, pesanteur du passé et héritages, tous les héritages qui nous tordent comme le dit la psychanalyse ainsi que tous les incidents de la vie et l'existence qui nous contraint ou semble nous contraindre, l'idée est belle
franstassigny

Dispartion Jean-Bertrand Pontalis - 0 views

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    J.B. PONTALIS dans son bureau en 2011. Né un 15 janvier (1924), Jean-Bertrand Lefèvre-Pontalis est mort ce 15 janvier (2013). Il avait 89 ans. Agrégé de philosophie, psychanalyste, éditeur et romancier, il avait notamment reçu le prix Valery-Larbaud pour «Traversée des ombres» (2003) et le prix Médicis pour «Frère du précédent» (2006). (SIPA) (BISSON BERNARD/JDD/SIPA)
thinkahol *

The Biology of Consciousness | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 0 views

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    "Renegade husband and wife philosophers Pat and Paul Churchland met forty years ago in a college Plato class. Their instincts as philosophers - then and now - run outside the philosophy mainstream. Where most philosophers looked to reason and logic to apprehend the human mind, the Churchlands looked - and look - to science. There is no independent "mind", these two practically say, just the human brain, three pounds of tissue and water, firing away behind all our emotions, beliefs, actions. Consciousness itself, they say, is straight biology, a machine. Once, that sounded esoteric. Now, it's on the frontline of debate over law, soul and life."
Vickie Ranz

Against Intuition - ChronicleReview.com - 0 views

  • f anything can be pursued in an armchair, philosophy can," the esteemed Oxford philosopher Timothy Williamson told the Aristotelian Society, of London, a few years ago. That may sound like an innocuous
  • Experimental philosophers also draw on work by contemporary psychologists demonstrating just how malleable human cognition is, how easily redirected and reshaped it is by external cues, even as the conscious mind remains blissfully unaware. Opinions on crime and punishment, for instance, can be altered by placing people in a dirty room designed to trigger feelings of disgust: Subjects in such experiments respond more punitively when asked what should be done to certain hypothetical criminals.
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      If Intuition means (knowledge) - understanding without apparent effort, quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge (with an emphasis on empirical knowledge), then this test isn't a good test. I think intuition is a deeper process than experiencing something or even learning about something and drawing a new conclusion from that experience or new knowledge. Maybe it is something as simple as seeing linkages that haven't been pointed out by anyone else and making educated guesses. But, then again, maybe it is something as mysterious as tapping into an unconscious web of collective knowledge and all people really are linked to one another spiritually.
  • They think that by studying human minds, using empirical techniques, and drawing on the insights of modern psychological science, they can get a better sense of where intuitions come from, and whether or when they should be granted credence.
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      Using several different methods to look at a problem is a way of opening up thought so that more possibilities can be explored. And, if more possibilties can be explored, then, more conclusions can be drawn and tested for relevancy. I don't think that this is a bad thing. Take for example the writer who uses art as a spring board for new ideas or to expand his/her thinking in order to write newer/fresher things -- to get past static thinking.
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    An article on "Experimental Philosophy", and the "x-phi" movement.
Maxime Lagacé

» on economy :mnmlist - 0 views

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    Economy of movement, Economy of words, Economy of materials. Great philosophy
franstassigny

Sartre & Lacan par Frans Tassigny ( fr -ang ) - 0 views

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    "Etre, c'est éclater dans le monde".Dans l'Etre et le Néant, Sartre repense le cogito cartésien. Ainsi, contre Descartes et son "Je pense donc je suis", Sartre pose la thèse suivante : "Je suis, j'existe". Autrement dit il affirme que la pensée elle-même suppose l'existence qui reste première. L'homme est avant tout sujet, une sorte d'existence impersonnelle, une "existence sans existant"
Caramel Crow

Torn Between Left and Right | Psychology Today Blogs - 3 views

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YouTube - Jeff Hawkins on Artificial Intelligence - Part 1/5 - 0 views

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    June 23, 2008 - The founder of Palm, Jeff Hawkins, solves the mystery of Artificial Intelligence and presents his theory at the RSA Conference 2008. He gives a brief tutorial on the neocortex and then explains how the brain stores memory and then describes how to use that knowledge to create artificial intelligence. This lecture is insightful and his theory will revolutionize computer science.
Robert Kamper

School of Everything | Learning Makes Itself Invisible - 0 views

  • If you now look
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      or if you already saw the picture without only two levels of shading, which was confirmed by the popup...
  • One-shot learning is unusual. Most learning happens over a far longer time-scale,
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      more accurately, most learning occurs in small increments which are accrued over a longer period of time. Units of learning within a curriculum, if you think of it that way - it seems so obvious to someone who has already learned to think of it that way....
  • It is because learning has this tendency to make itself invisible that teaching is such a difficult and noble tradition.
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      I don't know if I agree with this. Names like Tyler, Bloom, Bruner, have been involved in identifying domains of knowledge and levels of knowledge, scope and span of curriculum, and there is a vast literature about both the philosophy and the logistics and mechanics of education and instruction. Unfortunately (soapbox) in the USA we pay millions for distractions and entertainment and a pittance for teaching our children how to learn and how to think. Paying homage is no substitute for wages if you wish to attract skilled and effective teachers.
Hilco Blok

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Ariew on the Controversy over the European Journal ... - 0 views

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    Roger Ariew (South Florida) has kindly supplied some additional detail about the European initiative to rank journals, to which we alluded before. Professor Ariew writes:The ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities) is an attempt by the European Science Foundation...
Amira .

You are not a self! Bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness by prof Thomas Metzi... - 1 views

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    German philosopher of mind Thomas Metzinger is one of the world's top researchers on consciousness, instrumental in its renaissance as a respectable problem for scientific enquiry. From out-of-body experiences to lucid dreaming, anarchic hand syndrome to phantom limbs, his investigations have taken him to places few dare to go. Be spooked, bewildered and amazed.
Caramel Crow

Neuroscientifically Challenged: The Neuroscience of Distributive Justice - 5 views

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