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Computers
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- Thesis Text:
- This discussion will be restricted to the role Computers play in the philosophy of Mind and Personal Identity. While I am an animalist2, the mind3 and brain4 are important topics in alternative accounts – in particular the Psychological View5 and the Constitution View6.
- The “Computer Model” of the mind seems to be the dominant paradigm in neuroscience. This is the view that the brain operates like a digital computer. This is disputed by, for example "Epstein (Robert) - The empty brain".
- There’s a cross-over in much of the above topic with Functionalism7.
- Where this gets exciting is in the Transhumanist8 hope of uploading9 (you10, or your mind11) to a computer. This will be dealt with under the head of Uploading12.
- A related issue – also currently noted under Transhumanism – is whether we are (most probably) living in a computer simulations, whether or not we might have been uploaded13 there.
- Also, there’s the whole question of Artificial Intelligence14, and in particular whether computers – or maybe even computer programs – might ever become persons15.
- This topic might get caught up in the “Connectionism” debate, and whether connectionism – which seeks to adopt the neural connectionist architecture of the brain – can account for the “systematicity of cognition”. I don’t want to stray too far down this interesting path.
- I might also add the question whether the success of self-teaching game machines (AlphaGo and AlphaZero – I have "Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) - Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI", but it is mostly about chess!) have anything to say about the innateness controversy – whether human beings are born with a “language16 instinct” or whether generic associative learning capabilities are sufficient to explain the near-miraculous acquisition of language by toddlers. I used to think not – see the Poverty of the Stimulus Argument17.
Further Remarks:
- I have the following items on Connectionism (amongst many others):-
- "Bechtel (William) - The Case For Connectionism",
- "Davies (Martin) - Connectionism, Modularity, and Tacit Knowledge",
- "Garson (James) - Connectionism",
- "MacDonald (Cynthia) & MacDonald (Graham), Eds. - Connectionism: Debates in Psychological Explanation - Vol. 2" (many useful papers), and
- "Smolensky (Paul) - Connectionist Modelling; Neural Computation / Mental Connections".
- I was interested in this debate – whether connectionism can explain systematicity – during my undergraduate days, and have the following interesting items on the topic:-
- "Blackmon (James), Byrd (David), Cummins (Robert), Poirier (Pierre), Schwarz (Georg) & Roth (Martin) - Systematicity and the Cognition of Structured Domains",
- "Cummins (Robert) - Systematicity",
- "Fodor (Jerry) - Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity (Continued): Why Smolensky's Solution Still Doesn't Work", and
- "Matthews (Robert) - Can Connectionists Explain Systematicity?"
References
- Relevant Works cited above:
- "Epstein (Robert) - The empty brain", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read
- "Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) - Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI", 2019, Book, Read = 3%
- For a Page of Links18 to this Note, Click here. Unfortunately, there are so many links that I’ve not been able to make use of them as yet.
- Works on this topic that I’ve actually read19, include the following:-
- Aeon:
- "Epstein (Robert) - The empty brain", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Graziano (Michael) - Endless fun", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Ball (Philip) - We might live in a computer program, but it may not matter", 2016
- "Bostrom (Nick) - Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bostrom (Nick) - How Long Before Superintelligence?", 1998, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Christian (Brian) - The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer", 2011, Book
- "Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue", 2014
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Where Am I?", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote20
- "Lavelle (Suilin) - Minds, Brains and Computers", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "MacKay (Donald) - Computer Software and Life After Death", 1997
- "Maxwell (Grover) - Intentionality: Hardware, not software", 1980
- "Pasquale (Frank) - Digital star chamber", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Price (Huw), Cave (Stephen), Iida (Fumiya), Etc. - Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us: Part 1", 2018, External Link
- "Price (Huw), Cave (Stephen), Iida (Fumiya), Etc. - Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us: Part 2", 2018, External Link
- "Roeder (Oliver) - There is no difference between computer art and human art", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Searle (John) - Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures", 1984, Book
- "Searle (John) - Minds, Brains, and Programs", 1980, Write-Up Note21, Internal PDF Link
- "Shanahan (Murray) - The Frame Problem", 2004-8, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shipley (G.J.) - Review of Andy Clark's 'Natural-Born Cyborgs'", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem", 2015, External Link
- "Wilkes (Kathleen) - Models of Mind", 2003
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- There is currently no categorised reading-list for this topic. A further reading list might start with22:-
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Why Computers Can't Act", 1981, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Barberousse (Anouk), Francescelli (Sara) & Imbert (Cyrille) - Computer Simulations as Experiments", 2008?, Internal PDF Link
- "Barbour (Ian) - Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Nature: Theological and Philosophical Reflections", 2000, External Link
- "Bechtel (William) - The Case For Connectionism", 1999
- "Blackmon (James), Byrd (David), Cummins (Robert), Poirier (Pierre), Schwarz (Georg) & Roth (Martin) - Systematicity and the Cognition of Structured Domains", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Block (Ned) - The Computer Model of the Mind", 1995, No Abstract
- "Block (Ned) - The Mind as the Software of the Brain", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%, Footnote23
- "Brennan (Andrew) - Survival", 1984, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Bynum (Terrell Ward) - Audio: Two Philosophers of the Information Age", 2009, Read = 67%
- "Campbell (Scott) - Persons and Substances", 2001
- "Churchland (Paul) & Churchland (Patricia) - Could a Machine Think?", 1990, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Cole (David) - Artificial Intelligence and Personal Identity", 1991, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Cummins (Robert) - Systematicity", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Davies (Martin) - Connectionism, Modularity, and Tacit Knowledge", 1989, Internal PDF Link
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Artifactual Selves: a Response to Lynne Rudder Baker", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dennett (Daniel) - When Hal Kills, Who's to Blame? Computer Ethics", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Why You Can't Make a Computer that Feels Pain", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Ellis (George F.R.) & Drossel (Barbara) - How Downwards Causation Occurs in Digital Computers", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Fetzer (James) - Computers and Cognition", 2005
- "Fodor (Jerry) - Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity (Continued): Why Smolensky's Solution Still Doesn't Work", 1996, No Abstract
- "Frigg (Roman) & Reiss (Julian) - The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?", 2008?, Internal PDF Link, Footnote24
- "Garson (James) - Connectionism", 1997-2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Gelernter (David) - Mirror Worlds", 1991, Book, Read = 1%
- "Gelernter (David) - The Muse in the Machine - Computers and Creative Thought", 1994, Book, Footnote25
- "Goertzel (Ben) - Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Humanity", 2013
- "Graham (George) - Mind and Belief in Computers", 1998, Read = 29%
- "Hauser (Larry) - Artificial Intelligence", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Hofstadter (Douglas) - Who Shoves Whom around inside the Careenium? Or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'?", 1982, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Kaess (Genevieve) - Could Consciousness Emerge from a Machine Language?", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kim (Jaegwon) - Mind as a Computer: Machine Functionalism", 1998, Read = 19%
- "Leiber (Justin) - Can Animals and Machines Be Persons? : Introduction, Setting, Notes & Reading List", 1985
- "Lewis (David) - Lucas Against Mechanism", 1969, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Lewis (David) - Lucas Against Mechanism II", 1979, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Lucas (J.R.) - Minds, Machines and Gödel", 1961, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "MacDonald (Cynthia) & MacDonald (Graham), Eds. - Connectionism: Debates in Psychological Explanation - Vol. 2", 1995, Book, Read = 3%
- "Matthews (Robert) - Can Connectionists Explain Systematicity?", 1997
- "McCarthy (John) - Awareness and understanding in computer programs. A Review of Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose", 1995, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Nagel (Thomas) - Searle: Why We Are Not Computers", 1995, Read = 13%
- "Olson (Eric) - Computer-Generated Life", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Parker (Wendy) - Does Matter Really Matter? Computer Simulations, Experiments, and Materiality", 2008?, Internal PDF Link, Footnote26
- "Pollock (John L.) - How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon", 1989, Book, Read = 4%
- "Pollock (John L.) - Practical Reasoning in Oscar", 1995, Internal PDF Link
- "Pollock (John L.) - The Building of Oscar", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Pollock (John L.) - What Am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem", 2008, Internal PDF Link
- "Rapaport (William J.) - Prolegomena to a Study of Hector-Neri Castaneda's Influence on Artificial Intelligence: A Survey and Personal Reflections", 1998, Internal PDF Link
- "Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) - Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI", 2019, Book, Read = 3%
- "Sandberg (Anders) & Bostrom (Nick) - Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap", 2008, Internal PDF Link
- "Sanford (David H.) - Where Was I?", 1981, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Searle (John) - ‘I Married a Computer’: An Exchange (between Ray Kurzweil and John Searle)", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Searle (John) - Can Computers Think?", 1984, Read = 17%, Footnote27
- "Searle (John) - Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?", 1990, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%, Footnote28
- "Searle (John) - Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? MIT Comments", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Searle (John) - The Rediscovery of the Mind", 1994, Book, Read = 15%
- "Simons (Geoff) - Are Computers Alive? Evolution and New Life Forms", 1983, Book, Read = 2%
- "Smolensky (Paul) - Connectionist Modelling; Neural Computation / Mental Connections", 1997, No Abstract
- "Steele (Guy L.) - Comments on Hofstadter's 'Who Shoves Whom around inside the Careenium?'", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Turing (Alan) - On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", 1937, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wilensky (Robert) - Computers, cognition and philosophy", 1980, Read = 33%
- For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
- Read: No items to list.
- Further Reading:
- General:
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 01.1", 2001, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 02.1", 2002, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 02.2", 2003, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 03.1", 2003, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 03.2", 2004, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 04.1", 2004, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 04.2", 2005, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 05.1", 2005, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 05.2", 2006, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 06.1", 2006, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 06.2", 2007, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 07.1", 2007, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 07.2", 2008, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 08.1", 2008, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 08.2", 2009, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 09.1", 2009, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 09.2", 2010, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 10.1", 2010, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 10.2", 2011, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 11.1", 2011, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 11.2", 2012, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 12.1", 2012, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 12.2", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 13.1", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 13.2", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 14.1", 2014, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 14.2", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 15.1", 2015, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 15.2", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 16.1", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- This is mostly a place-holder29.
In-Page Footnotes:
Footnote 20: Footnote 22:
- The list is rather long, and will need pruning when I get down to this topic.
Footnote 23: Footnote 24:
- This paper no doubt considers the use of computers for simulating situations other than minds, so might not be directly relevant.
Footnote 25: Footnote 26:
- This seems somewhat tangential, as it’s not focused on simulating persons, but it might be useful background.
Footnote 27: Footnote 28:
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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note
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Aeon Papers, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
Aeon Papers - Summary Document: 2017-2018 |
Brain State Transfer, 2 |
Commissurotomy |
Disembodied Existence, 2 |
Immortality, 2 |
Intelligence |
Mind |
Non-Human Persons |
Olson - What Are We? The Question |
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 |
Siliconisation, 2, 3 |
Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) |
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3, 4 |
Thesis - Current Stance |
Thought Experiments |
Transhumanism, 2 |
Uploading, 2, 3 |
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note
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Aaronson (Scott) |
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Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: 2019+ |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? The Question |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Petersen (Jennifer) |
Can algorithms speak? And should their opinions be protected? |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Quaglia (Sofia) |
Connected-up-brains |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Shipley (G.J.) |
Review of Andy Clark's 'Natural-Born Cyborgs' |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Snowdon (Paul) |
Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Tammet (Daniel) |
N/A |
Author  |
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Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Brain State Transfer |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?) |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments) |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection) |
Paper  |
2, 3, 4 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Commissurotomy |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Current Position |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Disembodied Existence |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Immortality |
Paper  |
2 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Intelligence |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Mind |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Non-Human Persons |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Siliconisation |
Paper  |
2, 3 |
Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Thought Experiments |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Transhumanism |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Uploading |
Paper  |
2, 3 |
Yes |
References & Reading List
Author |
Title |
Medium |
Source |
Read? |
APA |
Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
0% |
APA |
Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 01.1 |
Paper - Cited |
APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 1.1, Fall 2001 |
No |
APA |
Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 02.1 |
Paper - Cited |
APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 2.1, Fall 2002 |
No |
APA |
Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers: 02.2 |
Paper - Cited |
APA - Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 2.2, Spring 2003 |
No |
Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
Why Computers Can't Act |
Paper - Cited  |
American Philosophical Quarterly, 18:157–63, 1981 |
17% |
Ball (Philip) |
We might live in a computer program, but it may not matter |
Paper - Cited  |
BBC Website ("Earth"), 6th September 2016 |
Yes |
Bechtel (William) |
The Case For Connectionism |
Paper - Cited  |
Lycan - Mind and Cognition - An Anthology |
No |
Blackmon (James), Byrd (David), Cummins (Robert), Poirier (Pierre), Schwarz (Georg) & Roth (Martin) |
Systematicity and the Cognition of Structured Domains |
Paper - Cited  |
Journal of Philosophy, 98, 2001, pp. 167-185 |
No |
Bostrom (Nick) |
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophical Quarterly, 2003, Vol. 53, No. 211, pp. 243-255 |
Yes |
Bostrom (Nick) |
How Long Before Superintelligence? |
Paper - Cited  |
Personal Website. |
Yes |
Christian (Brian) |
The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer |
Book - Cited  |
Christian (Brian) - The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer |
Yes |
Cummins (Robert) |
Systematicity |
Paper - Cited  |
Journal of Philosophy. 93: 591-614, 1996 |
No |
Dainton (Barry) |
Self: Philosophy In Transit |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
7% |
Dainton (Barry) |
Self: Philosophy In Transit: Prologue |
Paper - Cited  |
Dainton (Barry) - Self: Philosophy In Transit, Prologue |
Yes |
Davies (Martin) |
Connectionism, Modularity, and Tacit Knowledge |
Paper - Cited  |
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 40 (1989), 541-55 |
No |
Dennett (Daniel) |
Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
43% |
Dennett (Daniel) |
Where Am I? |
Paper - Cited  |
Dennett - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Chapter 17, 1978 |
Yes |
Edwards (Paul), Ed. |
Immortality |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
4% |
Epstein (Robert) |
The empty brain |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 18 May, 2016 |
Yes |
Fodor (Jerry) |
Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity (Continued): Why Smolensky's Solution Still Doesn't Work |
Paper - Cited |
Fodor - In Critical Condition - Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind |
No |
Fodor (Jerry) |
In Critical Condition - Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
3% |
Garson (James) |
Connectionism |
Paper - Cited  |
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 1997-2010 |
4% |
Gelernter (David) |
Mirror Worlds |
Book - Cited  |
Gelernter (David) - Mirror Worlds |
1% |
Gelernter (David) |
The Muse in the Machine - Computers and Creative Thought |
Book - Cited  |
Gelernter (David) - The Muse in the Machine - Computers and Creative Thought |
0% |
Graziano (Michael) |
Endless fun |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 18 December, 2013 |
Yes |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: 2019+ |
Paper - Referencing |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon |
Yes |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: A-B (& General) |
Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
100% |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: C-F |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
51% |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: G-K |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
31% |
Haugeland (John) |
Mind Design II |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
19% |
Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds. |
The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
14% |
Lavelle (Suilin) |
Minds, Brains and Computers |
Paper - Cited  |
Ward (Dave), Pritchard (Duncan), Massimi (Michela), Lavelle (Suilin), Chrisman (Matthew), Hazlett (Allan) & Richmond (Alasdair) - Introduction to Philosophy, 2013 |
Yes |
Lycan (William) |
Mind and Cognition - An Anthology |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
1% |
MacDonald (Cynthia) & MacDonald (Graham), Eds. |
Connectionism: Debates in Psychological Explanation - Vol. 2 |
Book - Cited  |
MacDonald (Cynthia) & MacDonald (Graham), Eds. - Connectionism: Debates in Psychological Explanation - Vol. 2 |
3% |
MacKay (Donald) |
Computer Software and Life After Death |
Paper - Cited  |
Edwards - Immortality, pp, 247-249 |
Yes |
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed. |
Mind - 113/450 (April 2004) |
Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
6% |
Matthews (Robert) |
Can Connectionists Explain Systematicity? |
Paper - Cited  |
Mind and Language, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 1997, pp. 154–177 |
No |
Maxwell (Grover) |
Intentionality: Hardware, not software |
Paper - Cited  |
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 3 - Issue 3 - September 1980, pp. 437-438 |
Yes |
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. |
Mind, Self and Person |
Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
35% |
Olson (Eric) |
What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology |
Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
99% |
Olson (Eric) |
What Are We? The Question |
Paper - Referencing  |
What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) |
Yes |
Petersen (Jennifer) |
Can algorithms speak? And should their opinions be protected? |
Paper - Referencing  |
Aeon, 07 June 2022 |
Yes |
Pollock (John L.) |
How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon |
Book - Cited  |
Pollock (John L.) - How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon |
4% |
Quaglia (Sofia) |
Connected-up-brains |
Paper - Referencing  |
Aeon, 23 June 2022 |
Yes |
Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) |
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI |
Book - Cited  |
Sadler (Matthew) & Regan (Natasha) - Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI |
3% |
Sanford (David H.) |
Where Was I? |
Paper - Cited |
Hofstadter & Dennett - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul |
No |
Searle (John) |
Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program? |
Paper - Cited  |
Scientific American 262 (1), January 1990, 20-25 |
17% |
Searle (John) |
Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures |
Book - Cited  |
Searle (John) - Minds, Brains and Science: The 1984 Reith Lectures |
Yes |
Searle (John), Etc. |
Minds, Brains, and Programs |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
93% |
Shipley (G.J.) |
Review of Andy Clark's 'Natural-Born Cyborgs' |
Paper - Referencing  |
Mind - 113/450 (April 2004) |
Yes |
Smolensky (Paul) |
Connectionist Modelling; Neural Computation / Mental Connections |
Paper - Cited |
Haugeland - Mind Design II |
No |
Snowdon (Paul) |
Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem |
Paper - Referencing  |
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Mind, Self and Person, 2015 |
Yes |
Ward (Dave), Pritchard (Duncan), Massimi (Michela), Lavelle (Suilin), Chrisman (Matthew), Hazlett (Allan) & Richmond (Alasdair) |
Introduction to Philosophy |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
No |
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