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I had a brief debate on the patio of Jesse’s apartment on Saturday regarding ‘dangers’ of historically blind philosophy. Today, I read the following aside on Peter Smith’s blog: Why should the philosopher be any more especially interested in the history of her subject than the physicist is in the history of hers? If [...] Creationists declare war over the brain Basically, the Intelligent Design crowd is turning their sights towards neuroscience and philosophy of mind, resolute in the mission to revive Cartesian dualism with the goal of “nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies”. Because, you know, they have already finished proving evolution wrong [...] Andy Clark’s new book “Supersizing the Mind” is apparently categorized by some trade book shops as “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy”. Made me giggle. As workers in the field fully understand, the phrase “artificial intelligence” is a terrible way to pick out the topic. Artificial intelligence is to be real intelligence, created by artifice. But artificial diamonds are not real diamonds created by artifice. They are fake diamonds. Real diamonds created in a laboratory are synthetic diamonds. And [...] |
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