Peer Support: A Theoretical Perspective
... Affiliations are a property of a successful, dynamic society. Affiliation helps us see our commonalities and builds consequent trust. It helps us understand each other as “whole” people with a range of experiences that are familiar and therefore acceptable. Without a sense of affiliating many people ...
... Affiliations are a property of a successful, dynamic society. Affiliation helps us see our commonalities and builds consequent trust. It helps us understand each other as “whole” people with a range of experiences that are familiar and therefore acceptable. Without a sense of affiliating many people ...
white paper from the Workshop on Development and Learning.
... rewired ferrets can see using the brain zone that is normally assigned for sound. This discovery seems to suggest that the cortex is governed by self-organizing mechanisms, which derive representation and architecture according to the input signals, either visual or auditory. As another example, stu ...
... rewired ferrets can see using the brain zone that is normally assigned for sound. This discovery seems to suggest that the cortex is governed by self-organizing mechanisms, which derive representation and architecture according to the input signals, either visual or auditory. As another example, stu ...
A. M. Turing
... its opera tion are constant across various types and levels of cognition, with the common empirical basis for all knowledge providing the basis for parsimony here. By contrast, in denying that all knowledge derives from the senses, rationalists are faced with the question of what other sources there ...
... its opera tion are constant across various types and levels of cognition, with the common empirical basis for all knowledge providing the basis for parsimony here. By contrast, in denying that all knowledge derives from the senses, rationalists are faced with the question of what other sources there ...
The Mystery of Consciousness Continues June 9, 2011 John R
... the brain and how does it function causally in our behavior? Antonio Damasio is one of the leading workers in the field of consciousness research, and after having written a number of books on related problems, in Self Comes to Mind he addresses the problem of consciousness directly. He does not cla ...
... the brain and how does it function causally in our behavior? Antonio Damasio is one of the leading workers in the field of consciousness research, and after having written a number of books on related problems, in Self Comes to Mind he addresses the problem of consciousness directly. He does not cla ...
The Phil of AI 2 - Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce
... world. Indeed, some of these aspects could be internal to the system itself and thus represent its own internal states as internal representations of aspects of itself. But, while self-awareness and self-consciousness are often taken to be important kinds of intelligence or mentality, they do not ap ...
... world. Indeed, some of these aspects could be internal to the system itself and thus represent its own internal states as internal representations of aspects of itself. But, while self-awareness and self-consciousness are often taken to be important kinds of intelligence or mentality, they do not ap ...
Causal networks as the backbone for temporal data-to-text
... to use a bottom-up approach. Bottom-up approaches, contrarily to top-down ones, guarantee that all chosen content will be included in the rhetorical structure. This can avoid continuity problems that are due to missing events in the generated text (Portet et al., 2009, pp. 807–808). We retain from t ...
... to use a bottom-up approach. Bottom-up approaches, contrarily to top-down ones, guarantee that all chosen content will be included in the rhetorical structure. This can avoid continuity problems that are due to missing events in the generated text (Portet et al., 2009, pp. 807–808). We retain from t ...
Skinner, the Behaviorist - That Marcus Family Home
... o We can be sure that he will or will not drink if the variables are altered. For example, if we were to force the man to engage in rigorous exercise, it is more probable that he will drink. o Other variables, Skinner points out, could impact the results (for example, fear of being poisoned). • Thes ...
... o We can be sure that he will or will not drink if the variables are altered. For example, if we were to force the man to engage in rigorous exercise, it is more probable that he will drink. o Other variables, Skinner points out, could impact the results (for example, fear of being poisoned). • Thes ...
Mind Lectures 2
... understanding of how physical states can cause physical subjective qualitative states, or how mental states that are nonphysical could cause physical states. Necessary mysterianism: consciousness cannot be explained because of a fundamental explanatory gap between the physical and the phenomenal tha ...
... understanding of how physical states can cause physical subjective qualitative states, or how mental states that are nonphysical could cause physical states. Necessary mysterianism: consciousness cannot be explained because of a fundamental explanatory gap between the physical and the phenomenal tha ...
A Cognitive Computation Fallacy?
... mental states? Certainly Searle believes so, ‘‘... the study of the mind is the study of consciousness, in much the same sense that biology is the study of life’’ [24] and this observation leads him to postulate the Connection Principle whereby ‘‘... any mental state must be, at least in principle, ...
... mental states? Certainly Searle believes so, ‘‘... the study of the mind is the study of consciousness, in much the same sense that biology is the study of life’’ [24] and this observation leads him to postulate the Connection Principle whereby ‘‘... any mental state must be, at least in principle, ...
Predicting Activation Across Individuals with Resting
... functional connectivity patterns recorded during language experiments in multiple individuals was used to align function across subjects independent of the anatomical anchors of functional units. Instead of using across-subject correlation, it relies on the within-subject correlation patterns to mat ...
... functional connectivity patterns recorded during language experiments in multiple individuals was used to align function across subjects independent of the anatomical anchors of functional units. Instead of using across-subject correlation, it relies on the within-subject correlation patterns to mat ...
Could a machine think? - Alan M. Turing vs. John R. Searle
... Intelligence) Allen Newell and Herbert Simon formulated the physical symbol system hypothesis (PSSH): “A physical symbol system3 has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.”4 This claim implies both that human thinking is a form of symbol manipulation (because a symbol sys ...
... Intelligence) Allen Newell and Herbert Simon formulated the physical symbol system hypothesis (PSSH): “A physical symbol system3 has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.”4 This claim implies both that human thinking is a form of symbol manipulation (because a symbol sys ...
Matching mind to world and vice versa: Functional dissociations
... kind of attitude taken toward the content (taking for true in the case of beliefs vs. valuing in the case of desires). Together, cognitive and conative attitudes constitute reasons for acting and are jointly referred to in rational action explanation, such as in ‘‘He bought the stock because he thou ...
... kind of attitude taken toward the content (taking for true in the case of beliefs vs. valuing in the case of desires). Together, cognitive and conative attitudes constitute reasons for acting and are jointly referred to in rational action explanation, such as in ‘‘He bought the stock because he thou ...
Supplement: A Heuristic Model of Alcohol Dependence
... relative function contributions, one molecule of glutamate would be functionally equivalent to thousands of dopamine molecules. Such a stark difference in effect may not always be an appropriate representation of functional contributions. Instead of using concentrations directly, we made in the body ...
... relative function contributions, one molecule of glutamate would be functionally equivalent to thousands of dopamine molecules. Such a stark difference in effect may not always be an appropriate representation of functional contributions. Instead of using concentrations directly, we made in the body ...
The Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness
... consciousness does not consist in being the target of a higher-order thought but rather just is the having of the higher-order thought. Having conscious mental states results in phenomenology because phenomenology consists in one having a higherorder thought, which is how one also has conscious men ...
... consciousness does not consist in being the target of a higher-order thought but rather just is the having of the higher-order thought. Having conscious mental states results in phenomenology because phenomenology consists in one having a higherorder thought, which is how one also has conscious men ...
Examine the concepts of normality and abnormality
... • Social norms constitute informal or formal rules of how individuals are expected to behave. • Deviant behavior is behavior that is considered undesirable by the majority of people in a given society. • Individuals who break rules of conduct or do not behave like the majority are defined as “abnorm ...
... • Social norms constitute informal or formal rules of how individuals are expected to behave. • Deviant behavior is behavior that is considered undesirable by the majority of people in a given society. • Individuals who break rules of conduct or do not behave like the majority are defined as “abnorm ...
Com3240 Adaptive Intelligence - Department of Computer Science
... • The autonomous development paradigm for constructing developmental robots is as follows: • · Design a body according to the robot's ecological working conditions (e.g., on land or under water). • · Design a developmental program. • · At "birth," the robot starts to run the developmental program. • ...
... • The autonomous development paradigm for constructing developmental robots is as follows: • · Design a body according to the robot's ecological working conditions (e.g., on land or under water). • · Design a developmental program. • · At "birth," the robot starts to run the developmental program. • ...
Jalal Clemens
... mysteriously from legitimate systems,” in addition to suffering from many of the same conceptual and logical problems such as vague concepts and tautologies.5 A more general critique points out that, due to the fact both structural functionalism and conflict theory are macroscopic, they do not contr ...
... mysteriously from legitimate systems,” in addition to suffering from many of the same conceptual and logical problems such as vague concepts and tautologies.5 A more general critique points out that, due to the fact both structural functionalism and conflict theory are macroscopic, they do not contr ...
this PDF file - Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism
... consciousness as well as the relationship between these various mental states and their corresponding physiological states. The first six consciousnesses classified by the Yogacara Schools, of which the first five are sensory consciousnesses and the sixth a mental consciousness, are classified as gr ...
... consciousness as well as the relationship between these various mental states and their corresponding physiological states. The first six consciousnesses classified by the Yogacara Schools, of which the first five are sensory consciousnesses and the sixth a mental consciousness, are classified as gr ...
Body, Mind and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections Zhihua
... In the view of contemporary cognitive science, there should not be any dispute on the Buddhist classification of five sense organs, but how should we understand the five sense-consciousnesses? Taking a look at any picture that maps out the brain functions, one will find that vision, hearing, smell, ...
... In the view of contemporary cognitive science, there should not be any dispute on the Buddhist classification of five sense organs, but how should we understand the five sense-consciousnesses? Taking a look at any picture that maps out the brain functions, one will find that vision, hearing, smell, ...
Pamllel Computation and the Mind-Body Problem PAUL THAGARD University
... Thus the slow-down resulting from serial simulation of parallel processes can matter, given environmental constraints. Of course, in environments different from ours, there may be more or less severe time constraints. It is easy to imagine high-pressure worlds in which only organisms that react much ...
... Thus the slow-down resulting from serial simulation of parallel processes can matter, given environmental constraints. Of course, in environments different from ours, there may be more or less severe time constraints. It is easy to imagine high-pressure worlds in which only organisms that react much ...
The First-Person Perspective: A Test for Naturalism
... which can be meaningfully attributed to non humans, and the second which probably can not. Weak first person perspective ...
... which can be meaningfully attributed to non humans, and the second which probably can not. Weak first person perspective ...
Reconciling Mechanistic and Non-Mechanistic Explanation in
... understand how something works, the best approach is often to take it apart and see how the pieces fit together; or, conversely, to take a bunch of parts and try to build the thing out of them. This “understanding by building” ethos is what links cognitive science with AI and robotics (Ekbia, 2008). ...
... understand how something works, the best approach is often to take it apart and see how the pieces fit together; or, conversely, to take a bunch of parts and try to build the thing out of them. This “understanding by building” ethos is what links cognitive science with AI and robotics (Ekbia, 2008). ...
EliminativismComplexityEmergence
... realized by their lower level constituents and their relationships to one another. There isn’t any extra causal power over and above that which is provided by this physical embodiment (e.g. the operations of the hardware). Everything else is a gloss or descriptive simplification of what goes on at ...
... realized by their lower level constituents and their relationships to one another. There isn’t any extra causal power over and above that which is provided by this physical embodiment (e.g. the operations of the hardware). Everything else is a gloss or descriptive simplification of what goes on at ...
The Emergence of Contentful Experience
... outline of this model will suffice. Some far-from-equilibrium systems, insofar as they are stable through time at all, depend on external support to maintain that stability. A chemical bath, for example, may be maintained in some far-from-equilibrium condition by pumping various solutions into it, a ...
... outline of this model will suffice. Some far-from-equilibrium systems, insofar as they are stable through time at all, depend on external support to maintain that stability. A chemical bath, for example, may be maintained in some far-from-equilibrium condition by pumping various solutions into it, a ...
The mind-body problem
... “I divide the nervous system into two types of neurons, those concerned with consciousness, “C” neurons, and those which take care of unconscious functions, “U” neurons (the use of the word “neuron” in this context is shorthand for “otherwise unspecified subpart of the brain”). The goal of anesthesi ...
... “I divide the nervous system into two types of neurons, those concerned with consciousness, “C” neurons, and those which take care of unconscious functions, “U” neurons (the use of the word “neuron” in this context is shorthand for “otherwise unspecified subpart of the brain”). The goal of anesthesi ...