Tag: Walter Myers III

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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.

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News
Date
October 2, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Christof Koch, Consciousness, COSM 2025, Michael Egnor, Robert J. Marks, Walter Myers III}

COSM 2025 Panel to Tackle the Hard Problem: Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor sees the failure to find a “material center of consciousness” in the brain as a science success, not failure. It points to an important truth about us} _{News
October 2, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

As prominent neuroscientist Christof Koch’s recent difficulties with Cancel Culture show, the cracks in materialist neuroscience are getting harder to paper over.

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News
Date
April 15, 2025

Categorized
Philosophy

Tagged
Featured, Hylemorphic dualism, Personal identity, Robert J. Marks, Ship of Theseus, Soul and identity, Walter Myers III}

The Ship of Theseus: The Mystery of Personal Identity

_{If all your parts are slowly replaced, in what sense are you still you? A Mind Matters podcast discussion explores that} _{News
April 15, 2025

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Philosophy}

Walter Myers, an engineer and philosopher, sees the human soul as soul is what ultimately grounds human identity in something more than matter.

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News
Date
April 3, 2025

Categorized
Computer Security

Tagged
Azure (Microsoft cloud), Cloud computing, Featured, Robert J. Marks, Walter Myers III}

The Cloud: Why It Is More Reliable Than It Sounds At First

_{Walter Myers III assures us that the data cloud is designed with failure in mind. Encryption and redundancy are backbones of digital storage security} _{News
April 3, 2025

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Computer Security}

Perhaps the most common myth Myers wants to bust is the idea that someone else can access your data in the cloud. Only you — and those you authorize — can.