Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

Nieder thinks that consciousness probably emerged separa... occasions, in much the same way that wings appeared sepa... birds and bats.

For years, only humans were thought to have this key cog... attributing “false belief,” which is believed to und... empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three ... apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know ... a false bel

Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about... memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by w... in-depth article wondering whether computers can be cons... universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a u... human being

Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

Using brain imaging, scientists have built a map displaying how words and their meanings are represented across different regions of the brain

The black dots correspond to the 264 areas of the cerebr... researchers studied; the lines correspond to the increas... functional connections between each of these brain areas... consciously perceive the target. The “hotter” colors... with strong

The ability to describe, assign and attribute certain me... referred to as Theory of Mind. This topic has been exten... the field of autism, where deficits in social interactio... characterize this disorder are thought to be due to a la... Mind. Howev

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

"The Nature of Consciousness"
The Structure of Life and the Meaning of Matter" (2006)
by Piero Scaruffi
ISBN 0-9765531-1-2
A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Cognitive Sci ...

Less provocatively, perhaps a community of interacting i... city - after all, a more complex system than a single on... also be conscious. Perhaps there are all sorts of consci... can't see precisely because they emerge at a more abstra... one we occu

This is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos an...
Introduction
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to define, though ...
The fields of Chaos and Complexity theories have opened ...
I will attempt in this essay to present how certain appr ..

Consciousness and Biology
* Patricia A. Carpenter, Professor of Pyschology, CMU
carpenter+@cmu.edu
* Christopher J. Davia, Visiting scholar, CMU, Cogni ...
... science, is available from Davia (davia@andrew.cmu.edu).

Computation is central to the foundations of modern cogn... its role is controversial. Questions about computation a... for a physical system to implement a computation? Is com... sufficient for thought? What is the role of computation ... cognition?

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In the demo above and in the original article, the model... someone might know about characters inspired from the 19... Side Story", in which two gangs (the "Jets" and the "Sha... territory and overall dominance. Units, the activation l... represents

The "relational mind" approach to the inner content of c... developed in terms of various control structures and pro... and their possible neurobiological identifications in br... leads naturally to a division of consciousness into a pa... active part

I am interested in the role that elementary learning pro... behavior. It turns out that many such learning processes... that is, they occur without intention and without result... verbalizable knowledge. Thus it appears that many things...
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