Infectious Music - Stephen Davies - Posted by Maestro B on April 4th, 2010 | Comment »

How is the emotional expression in music find its way into our minds. Is the emotion solely contained in the music? Or are our emotional responses party brought about by the emotional responses of those around us?

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Wittgenstein on Meaning and Representation - Brent Silby - Posted by Maestro B on April 4th, 2010 | Comment »

Exposition and examination of Wittgenstein’s primary theory on Meaning and Representation. What exactly does he mean?

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Access vs Phenomenal Consciousness - Brent Silby - Posted by Maestro B on April 4th, 2010 | Comment »

Article analyzes the distinction between Access and Phenomenal Consciousness.

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Alternative to HOT theory of Consciousness - Brent Silby - Posted by Maestro B on April 3rd, 2010 | Comment »

An examination of Higher Order Thought theories of consciousness.

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The Evolutionary Dynamics of Technology by David Dahmen - Posted by Maestro B on January 13th, 2010 | Comment »

David Dahmen offers this new approach to memetic evolution. This article was written in response to Brent Silby’s 2001 article “The Evolution of Technology”

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A Modern Day Turing Test - John Stins - Posted by Maestro B on June 3rd, 2009 | Comment »

Scientists claim to be able to demonstrate consciousness in patients stuck in a vegetative state. This article examines the debate surrounding consciousness in Vegetative State patients and draws parallels to debates in Artificial Intelligence as to whether machines can think.

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Materialism and Qualia : Explanatory Gap - Joseph Levine - Posted by Maestro B on June 3rd, 2009 | Comment »

In this paper, Levine analyzes Kripke’s Cartesian argument against materialism. Levine transform’s Kripke’s argument from a metaphysical one into an epistemological one. This paper does not conclude that materialism is false, but it does point to problems with materialism about the mind.

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Dennett’s Reduction of Brentano’s Intentionality - Brent Silby - Posted by Maestro B on May 22nd, 2009 | Comment »

Is there a difference between physical phenomena and mental phenomena? This paper compares two approaches to answering this question: 1 Brentano’s theory of Intentionality, which suggests that there is a true distinction between physical objects and the objects of thought; and 2 Daniel Dennett’s Intentional Systems Theory, which reduces mental events to physical systems. Note: This paper was published in LINGUISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS Vol. 7, Mar 2008.

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