Author: Walter Myers III

Neural landscape with densely packed neurons, selective focus on a synapse releasing neurotransmitters, vibrant blue and white colors, high-resolution digital illustration

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Walter Myers III
Date
November 12, 2026

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
COSM 2026, Featured, Gaurav Suri}

Is the Mind Really Just Neurons Talking?

_{If so, then thinking is a physical property that emerges from the neurons, the way wetness emerges from water. But IS it so?} _{Walter Myers III
November 12, 2026

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Gaurav Suri, a proponent of the idea that the mind merely emerges from the interaction of billions of neurons, will face probing questions at COSM 2026.

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Walter Myers III
Date
November 4, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Behaviorism, COSM 2026, eliminative materialism, Emergent Mind (book 2025), Featured, Functionalism, Gaurav Suri, Identity theory, Jay Richards (COSM 2026), Property dualism, substance dualism}

COSM 2026: Tackling a Big Question — What Makes a Mind?

_{AI has turned an old philosophical question into an urgent one. A COSM 2026 panel will feature the claim that the mind is like a computer} _{Walter Myers III
November 4, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

For most of history, the question “What makes a mind?” belonged to philosophers. And then one day, machines started talking back.

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Walter Myers III
Date
August 23, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Electric vehicles, Lithium, Manhattan Institute}

Hybrid Cars Are the Future

_{Plug-in hybrids offer motorists a balanced option with virtually no downsides, writes Walter Meyers III} _{Walter Myers III
August 23, 2023

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Technology}

Auto makers need to step up and address the one issue that makes these vehicles less practical — their inability to accept fast chargers.

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Walter Myers III
Date
July 23, 2019

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Douglas Hofstadter}

We went back to visit Gödel, Escher, and Bach…

_{Forty years after publication, how has a big explain-the-mind book withstood the test of time?} _{Walter Myers III
July 23, 2019

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Arts & Culture, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Is there evidence that human minds function like computers and can soon be reproduced in software, as Hofstadter believed?