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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenology of Subjective Anomalous Experiences in People with Schizophrenia. [PDF]

open access: yesCult Med Psychiatry
Mondragón-Benítez O   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Games Without Rules

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely assumed that all games essentially have rules. This paper challenges this apparent truism. We argue that rules are merely one means for generating obstacles: features that make success more difficult. We propose that obstacles, not rules, are essential to games. This shift comes with several theoretical benefits.
Alexandre Declos, Olivier Massin
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmic AI Consciousness

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the thoroughly algorithmic nature of current AI systems (such as LLMs) is no obstacle to their being conscious, despite strong apparent reasons to the contrary. To this end, I present a picture on which algorithmic AI systems comprise dispositional properties that realize categorical phenomenal properties where the ...
Samuel Kimpton‐Nye
wiley   +1 more source

Fittingness and Bioethics

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamic Block Universe: Change Independent of Passage

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world appears to be in a constant state of flux, with objects changing and events unfolding over time. I refer to this characterisation as the Manifest Dynamic World. I have argued elsewhere that the Manifest Dynamic World involves two fundamentally distinct kinds of dynamism that cannot be reduced to one another: the dynamic character of ...
Jean Campos
wiley   +1 more source

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