Personal and sub-personal: a defence of Dennett's early distinction [PDF]
, 2000 Since 1969, when Dennett introduced a distinction between personal and sub‐personal levels of explanation, many philosophers have used ‘sub‐personal’ very loosely, and Dennett himself has abandoned a view of the personal level as genuinely autonomous.
Davies M. +18 more
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2000 In 1950, the German psychologist and physician Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans BENDER (1907-1991) founded the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V." (abbreviated IGPP) in Freiburg/Br.
Uwe Schellinger
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The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence [PDF]
, 2006 This quote/commented critique of Turing's classical paper suggests that Turing meant -- or should have meant -- the robotic version of the Turing Test (and not just the email version). Moreover, any dynamic system (that we design and understand) can be a
Harnad, Stevan
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Information-Matter Bipolarity of the Human Organism and Its Fundamental Circuits: From Philosophy to Physics/Neurosciences-Based Modeling [PDF]
, 2020 Starting from a philosophical perspective, which states that the living structures are actually a combination between matter and information, this article presents the results on an analysis of the bipolar information-matter structure of the ...
Gaiseanu, Florin
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The Wild Borderlands of Science and Technology [PDF]
, 2016 A review of recent scholarship in the sociology of fringe and counterculture ...
Moore, Kelly
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Exploring the Boundaries of Behavioral Robotics: Understanding the Limitations of Psychokinesis
, 2023 Advancements in behavioral robotics have enabled remarkable emulation of human abilities within artificial intelligence (AI) systems. However, amidst these technological achievements, the question of whether some human capacities lie beyond the reach of robots remains unanswered.
Adrian David Cheok, George Karolyi
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Near-Death Experiences and Immortality from the Perspective of an Informational Modeling of Consciousness [PDF]
, 2018 The questions concerning “who we are”, “where we go to”, and “where we come from”, preoccupied the humanity from immemorial times. During the last few decades, with the accelerated improvement of the investigation methods
Gaiseanu, Florin
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Spiritualism and a mid-Victorian crisis of evidence [PDF]
, 2004 Historians writing on Victorian spiritualism have said little about the reported phenomena of the seance room, despite such events having been the primary reason given by spiritualists for their beliefs. Rather, such beliefs have been seen as a response,
Lamont, P
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What Can Consciousness Anomalies Tell Us About Quantum Mechanics? [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, I explore the link between consciousness and quantum mechanics. Often explanations that invoke consciousness to help explain some of the most perplexing aspects of quantum mechanics are not given serious ...
Williams, George
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Emergence of qualia from brain activity or from an interaction of proto-consciousness with the brain: which one is the weirder? Available evidence and a research agenda [PDF]
, 2016 This contribution to the science of consciousness aims at comparing how two different theories can explain the emergence of different qualia experiences, meta-awareness, meta-cognition, the placebo effect, out-of-body experiences, cognitive therapy and ...
Adolphs R +63 more
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