Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- What Pop Stoicism Misses About Ancient Philosophy
- Humans Are Animals. Let’s Get Over It.
- Death Has Many Names
- What Would David Bowie Do?
- Are We the Cows of the Future?
- Time Isn’t Supposed to Last This Long
- A.I. and I
- Of Death and Consequences
- I Don’t Want You to ‘Believe’ Me. I Want You to Listen.
- Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice
- Philosophy Now
- News: December 2021 / January 2022
- Guto Dias’ Cartoon
- Simon & Finn
- Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)
- Philo of Alexandria (c.20BCE-c.50CE)
- On Philosophy and Philosophers: Unpublished papers, 1960-2000 by Richard Rorty
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The Happy State
- The Philosopher with a Thousand Faces
- What Is Happiness?
- RSA Animate
- The Green Corridors Initiative
- Governance governing government
- Why print money when we can print wealth?
- Building a resilient health and care system
- We'll always have Paris?
- Experimentation and equity in global cities
- Technology-enabled deliberative democracy
- Healthier placemaking
- Creating a sovereign wealth fund in Wolverhampton
- Economic recovery and climate action
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze
- Aha! Moments Pop Up from below the Level of Conscious Awareness
- Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies
- Borderline Personality Disorder May Be Rooted in Trauma
- COVID Threatens to Bring a Wave of Hikikomori to America
- Epstein-Barr Virus Found to Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
- New Year's Resolutions Are Notoriously Slippery, but Science Can Help You Keep Them
- What Will 2022 Bring in the Way of Misinformation on Social Media? 3 Experts Weigh In
- Salvador Dali's Creative Secret Is Backed by Science
- People Have Been Having Less Sex--whether They're Teenagers or 40-Somethings
- TED talks
- A different understanding of American patriotism | Deval Patrick
- 4 ways to redefine power at work to include women of color | Rha Goddess and Deepa Purushothaman
- The new reality of fashion is digital | Gala Marija Vrbanic
- Are brain waves the secret to treating Alzheimer's? | Li-Huei Tsai
- What if women built the world they want to see? | Emily Pilloton-Lam
- How to fix broken supply chains | Dustin Burke
- Woolly pigs, high tech and other ingenious ways to take carbon out of the air | Gabrielle Walker
- How "radical hospitality" can change the lives of the formerly incarcerated | Reuben Jonathan Miller
- The unexpected, underwater plant fighting climate change | Carlos M. Duarte
- How to break down barriers and not accept limits | Candace Parker
Category Archives: Philosophy of Mind – Consciousness
A nice Philosophy of Mind summary
From http://www.jshaw.net/courses/probdocs/H8.pdf
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A Life of Meaning (Reason Not Required) – What is the nature of our relationship with reason?
If philosophy is to stay relevant, it must bridge the gap between feeling, thought and reason. Few would disagree with two age-old truisms: We should strive to shape our lives with reason, and a central prerequisite for the good life … Continue reading
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Neuroscience and education: myths and messages
NATURE REVIEWS | NEUROSCIENCE Abstract: For several decades, myths about the brain — neuromyths — have persisted in schools and colleges, often being used to justify ineffective approaches to teaching. Many of these myths are biased distortions of scientific fact. … Continue reading
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Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind
Alex Rosenburg, The Stone. It is often said that we can never truly know the minds of others, because we can’t “get inside their heads.” Our ability to know our own minds, though, is rarely called into question. It is … Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence
Could AI of the future be not just smarter, but also more conscious than humans are now? Will they wonder if we are/were truly conscious? Discuss.
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What is the link between language and consciousness?
“Scientists working on animal cognition often dwell on their desire to talk to the animals. Oddly enough, this particular desire must have passed me by, because I have never felt it. I am not waiting to hear what my animals … Continue reading
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The value of subjective experience (or not)
From smbc
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Free will and mobile phones
Can you prove you have free will?
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Do we live in a simulation?
From SMBC
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Who is ‘you’?
An exploration of what we might mean by ‘me’. First – Identity short film (very good for class discussion) Second Who am I? – very useful website as well.
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Biased sample? Circular reasoning?
Discuss.
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The Limits of Imagination
Discuss
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Whose brain is it? Consciousness, free will and the brain.
If ‘I’ change ‘my’ mind? Then where do ‘I’ fit in?
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Philosophical Zombies
From the concept by Chalmers. Could humans exist that are not conscious? The extract below is from his site. Philosophical zombies It is philosophical zombies that I’m most interested in here, since I’m a philosopher and they raise very interesting … Continue reading
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Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all
It’s time to abandon the idea that we are the gold standard of intelligence. Take a test using a more fundamental scale of smarts http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128296.100-universal-intelligence-one-test-to-rule-them-all.html?full=true&print=true Download Universal intelligence (pdf)
Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific Explanations
Seeing your life pass before you and the light at the end of the tunnel, can be explained by new research on abnormal functioning of dopamine and oxygen flow By Charles Q. Choi Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=peace-of-mind-near-death Near-death experiences are often thought of … Continue reading
Consciousness – science tackles the self (pdf)
We know that we are aware of ourselves. But we don’t know how. And we are not even sure why. The answers may lie in the physical processes of consciousness 01 April 1989 by SUSAN BLACKMORE New Scientists Magazine issue … Continue reading
Philosophy in Senior Schools
(From my appearance on ABC Radio National’s ‘Philosopher’s Zone) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2007/1911312.htm Philosophy is about asking childlike questions – how do we know the world exists? How do we know it hasn’t just started existing? Why can’t we go back in time? … Continue reading
Some important tools of critical thinking
(from my Ockham’s Razor appearance on the ABC’s Radio National) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2010/2975629.htm Robyn Williams: And now, the bad news. No, don’t run off – this is interesting – even Quite Interesting, as Stephen Fry might say. Here I’ll quote directly from a … Continue reading
Brain science and the search for the self
Nice little overview of how the whole thing started. From New Scientist magazine. Philosophy of mind, consciousness, self. 20 March 2009 by A C Grayling AFTER John Locke published his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 1690, he sent copies to various … Continue reading
