Tag: mind
The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind
If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain.
Naturalism and Self-Refutation
How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism?
Terrified of a Robopocalypse? Don’t Be
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are scared about AI and the prospect of a “Terminator” future. But the U.S. military isn’t.
“Emergence” and the Soul
Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind.
Redness Reconsidered: Materialism, Universals, and Abstract Objects of Thought
The question about the material/immaterial nature of abstract thought is crucial to the debate over the plausibility of materialism.