Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Meet “Bob,” the Speech-Making Robot
The pleonastic fallacy boils down to this: multiplying nonsense doesn’t get you sense.
Teaching a Parrot Newton’s Principia
Dr. Jeffrey Shallit has some more questions regarding my observation that animals are incapable of abstract thought.
Can Animals Be Taught Concepts?
With enough cheese snacks on hand, I can train my Bichon Frise to bark when I point to “4” rather than “3” or “5” after I ask “What is 2 + 2?”
Functionalism in Philosophy of the Mind
The functionalist perspective is often expressed by quip, “The mind is what the brain does.”
Is Your Brain a Computer?
The most popular argument against functionalism is John Searle’s Chinese Room argument.