However, it was not until 1991 that mainstream cognitive science and philosophy fully adopted American philosopher Dan Dennett’s term ... stimulation data, and functional brain imaging data ...
Material Beings
Most philosophers would say that, in Daniel Dennett's words, where my brain goes, go I. (These are Dennett's words but not his doctrine. He has written an amusing story that he says he intends to ...
The Conscious Mind
This functional breakthrough, Torey argues ... costly diversions—“major misdirectors of attention” or “illusion generators,” to borrow Daniel Dennett’s words—and should be seen for what they are. I ...
It makes you think
As we research the workings of the human brain, attempting to understand and even mimic its function ... (although others, notably Daniel Dennett 3, disagree). The easy problems, such as the ...
Fred Adams
The view there there is has been rejected by Dan Dennett, among others ... 635-654 We examine both forwar-looking and backward-looking (etiological) accounts of function attribution. We ask questions ...
AI And The Ghost In The Machine
For example, in Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett argues the idea that consciousness is an elaborate illusion created by our minds. This is a logical extension of the philosophical concept ...
Helen Flanagan puts on a cosy display with fiancé Scott Sinclair during Dubai family getaway
She confessed: 'I've always just co slept with the kids out of easiness and just basically so I can sleep and just function in the morning.' ...
Recommended Reading
You may know Karl Deisseroth as an early developer of the optogenetics technique that has revolutionized Neuroscience over the past decade. But did you know that he was also a practicing neurologist?
Human uniqueness: genome interactions with environment, behaviour and culture
The inherent difficulty in determining whether a change in gene expression is adaptive or neutral argues strongly for the development of methods that place gene expression changes in a functional ...
The Language of Stories
Budelmann, Felix and LeVen, Pauline 2014. Timotheus’ Poetics of Blending: A Cognitive Approach to the Language of the New Music. Classical Philology, Vol. 109, Issue. 3, p. 191. Hovhannisyan, Gayane R ...
W V Quine Video Series
The late Willard Van Orman Quine was described as "the greatest living English-speaking philosopher" and "the most influential American philosopher of the postwar period". In this series, Professor ...