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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 31, 2018
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How to hack your unconscious mind

Assuming it exists
Denyse O'Leary
July 31, 2018
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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
Those who tell us that we can learn to use our unconscious mind and those who tell us that it doesn’t exist both claim to speak for science. But this is no ordinary dispute. An ordinary dispute might be something like What killed the dinosaurs? Imagine instead a dispute between scientists who do and scientists who do not believe that dinosaurs have ever existed. Read More ›
Dr. Michael Egnor, M.D.
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Michael Egnor
Date
July 17, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
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Neurosurgeon Outlines Why Machines Can’t Think

The hallmark of human thought is meaning, and the hallmark of computation is indifference to meaning.
Michael Egnor
July 17, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
A cornerstone of the development of artificial intelligence is the pervasive assumption that machines can, or will, think. Watson, a question-answering computer, beats the best Jeopardy players, and anyone who plays chess has had the humiliation of being beaten by a chess engine. Does this mean that computers can think as well as (or better than) humans think? Read More ›