Tag: Mind Matters
A Strange Way of Speaking About the Brain
A peculiar habit of disassociation is widespread among many who study the brain.
Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?
Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy.
Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity
The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other.
Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology
“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.”
Review: Heretic Takes Aim at Science’s Third Rail
“Well, we can’t touch the third rail, so the question becomes, How can we safely get past it?”