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Agnosticism about artificial consciousness
Could an AI have conscious experiences? Answers to this question should be based not on intuition, dogma or speculation but on solid scientific evidence. However, I argue such evidence is hard to come by and that the only justifiable stance is agnosticism.
Tom McClelland
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Letter to the Editor: On the Critical Nature of Psychosomatics in Clinical Practice. [PDF]
Merlo EM, Myles LAM, Martino G.
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Embedding mental files in the world
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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Quantum indeterminacy: a matter of degree? [PDF]
Nørgaard M.
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Does Non‐Idealism Entail Particularism?
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
John Lawless
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Attentional guidance plays two crucial roles in temporally extended agency. First, guidance stabilizes attention onto our tasks—and tunes out distractions—for extended periods of time. Second, guidance makes attention telic/atelic. Guidance imposes completion conditions on telic attention (e.g., searching for your keys) but not atelic attention (e.g ...
Zachary C. Irving
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Living happily alone in Plato's cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence. [PDF]
Askheim C, Engebretsen E, Haldar M.
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The determination of what is said and what is implied
Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
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