Tag: Gaurav Suri

Mind layers human consciousness and identity concept

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Walter Myers III
Date
November 12, 2026

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Emergent Mind (book 2025), Gaurav Suri, hard problem of consciousness, James McClelland, Jay Richards (COSM 2026)}

An Honest Book Meets the Hard Problem

_{The Hard Problem is, of course, the problem of consciousness. Why does anything "feel like" something?} _{Walter Myers III
November 12, 2026

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

What makes Suri and McClelland’s treatment unusual is its honesty. Many books on the brain promise to explain consciousness and quietly explain something else.

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.

Digital representation of glowing human brain with neural network connections on dark background.

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News
Date
October 23, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
A Certain Ambiguity (2007), Computational theory of mind, COSM 2026, Emergent Mind (book 2025), Featured, Gaurav Suri, Jay Richards, Michael Egnor, Walter Myers III}

COSM 2026: Neuroscientist Argues That the Mind Is a Machine

_{Philosopher Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage, will have some questions for computational neuroscientist Gaurav Suri} _{News
October 23, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Scientific American notes that the human mind is the hardest problem in science, with no theory emerging as persuasive. COSM will offer a reality check.