The mind-body problem - BECS / CoE in
... “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 ...
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... • Gain an understanding of how mental disorders contribute to and challenge various theories of mind • Develop an understanding of how dissociations in perception impact theories of epistemology • Learn to eva ...
... • Gain an understanding of how mental disorders contribute to and challenge various theories of mind • Develop an understanding of how dissociations in perception impact theories of epistemology • Learn to eva ...
Emergentism
... Philosophers have proposed that there could be phenomena that cannot be modelled or explained by finer-grain processes. This is said to be ‘strong emergence’. There is no consensus that any such strongly emergent properties have been discovered. But some candidates have been proposed. For example, t ...
... Philosophers have proposed that there could be phenomena that cannot be modelled or explained by finer-grain processes. This is said to be ‘strong emergence’. There is no consensus that any such strongly emergent properties have been discovered. But some candidates have been proposed. For example, t ...
Knowledge Representation and Users` Mental Models
... system (the “system image”) but also make guesses as to what goes on behind the scenes (“the system”) This makes the stringent separation of the user interface from the underlying technical processes a poor strategy for achieving ease of use (e.g. Gentner and Nielsen, 1996) This compulsion toward ma ...
... system (the “system image”) but also make guesses as to what goes on behind the scenes (“the system”) This makes the stringent separation of the user interface from the underlying technical processes a poor strategy for achieving ease of use (e.g. Gentner and Nielsen, 1996) This compulsion toward ma ...
Berk DEV
... Mental illness is a "waste basket" category that has no agreed upon meaning. Many diverse behaviors are lumped together that have little in common with one another. Scheff's first proposition states residual deviance (what comes to be regarded as mental illness) has diverse causes ranging from biolo ...
... Mental illness is a "waste basket" category that has no agreed upon meaning. Many diverse behaviors are lumped together that have little in common with one another. Scheff's first proposition states residual deviance (what comes to be regarded as mental illness) has diverse causes ranging from biolo ...
Consciousness - Cognitive Science Department
... states of the organisms which are soon followed by associated behaviors (eg. movements away from the light). ...
... states of the organisms which are soon followed by associated behaviors (eg. movements away from the light). ...
university of central florida - Christopher W. Blackwell, Ph.D., ARNP
... agnosia, or a disturbance in executive functioning. Risks include long-standing hypertension and small strokes often without significant loss of muscle strength. Symptom onset may be sudden or subtle depending upon the location, size, and frequency of the infarct and a stepwise deterioration of ...
... agnosia, or a disturbance in executive functioning. Risks include long-standing hypertension and small strokes often without significant loss of muscle strength. Symptom onset may be sudden or subtle depending upon the location, size, and frequency of the infarct and a stepwise deterioration of ...
From Philosophy and Mental-Models to Semantic Desktop research
... operates As we may think [V.Bush1968] to the Xanadu Project by Ted Nelson, Philosophers have always been interested in how we think about the things in our world and how it is represented in our minds? The term Mental Model was first mentioned by Craik in his 1943 book, The Nature of Explanation [Cr ...
... operates As we may think [V.Bush1968] to the Xanadu Project by Ted Nelson, Philosophers have always been interested in how we think about the things in our world and how it is represented in our minds? The term Mental Model was first mentioned by Craik in his 1943 book, The Nature of Explanation [Cr ...
Mindware as Soft~are - Computation and Cognition Lab
... Smart (1959) (andagain': see Appendix I), claimed that mental stat~s just are ·· processes going on in tJ1e brain. This bald
... Smart (1959) (andagain': see Appendix I), claimed that mental stat~s just are ·· processes going on in tJ1e brain. This bald
Memento`s Revenge: The Extended Mind
... environment? The answer, we claimed, was that mental states, including states of believing, could be grounded in physical traces that remained firmly outside the head. As long as a few simple conditions were met (more on which below), Leonard’s notes and tattoos could indeed count as new additions t ...
... environment? The answer, we claimed, was that mental states, including states of believing, could be grounded in physical traces that remained firmly outside the head. As long as a few simple conditions were met (more on which below), Leonard’s notes and tattoos could indeed count as new additions t ...
Making Sense of Internal Logic: Theory and a Case Study
... This implies the presence of a xed point of the description, irrespective of the external world. This is the second extreme case discussed in the Introduction (see also Fig. 1). The functional equation (2) for the internal description of the brain contains a great variety of solutions. When F (Xn ) ...
... This implies the presence of a xed point of the description, irrespective of the external world. This is the second extreme case discussed in the Introduction (see also Fig. 1). The functional equation (2) for the internal description of the brain contains a great variety of solutions. When F (Xn ) ...
The Problem Behavior Model - National Center for Victims of Crime
... There, the priority is formulating potential management strategies for those elements in the social and psychological as well as psychopathological make-up of an individual that have contributed to the offending and that are likely to increase the risk of reoffending (Bonta, Law, & Hanson, 1998; Hod ...
... There, the priority is formulating potential management strategies for those elements in the social and psychological as well as psychopathological make-up of an individual that have contributed to the offending and that are likely to increase the risk of reoffending (Bonta, Law, & Hanson, 1998; Hod ...
The problem behavior model: the development of a stalkers clinic
... There, the priority is formulating potential management strategies for those elements in the social and psychological as well as psychopathological make-up of an individual that have contributed to the offending and that are likely to increase the risk of reoffending (Bonta, Law, & Hanson, 1998; Hod ...
... There, the priority is formulating potential management strategies for those elements in the social and psychological as well as psychopathological make-up of an individual that have contributed to the offending and that are likely to increase the risk of reoffending (Bonta, Law, & Hanson, 1998; Hod ...
Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
... (Wallace, 2000) has influenced the scientific study of the mind for decades. It has taken over a full century, not a quarter of one, for the science of mind to begin to find its way back to James’ vision of a science of mental life, including ‘the varieties of religious experience’ (James, 1997), wh ...
... (Wallace, 2000) has influenced the scientific study of the mind for decades. It has taken over a full century, not a quarter of one, for the science of mind to begin to find its way back to James’ vision of a science of mental life, including ‘the varieties of religious experience’ (James, 1997), wh ...
Searle, Subsymbolic Functionalism and Synthetic Intelligence
... of the standard symbolic machine-learning algorithms. Let us examine them to see why. Machine-learning algorithms often use a standard technique of building decision trees based on some variation on the following general scheme. The programmer chooses a set of features, the values of which allow cat ...
... of the standard symbolic machine-learning algorithms. Let us examine them to see why. Machine-learning algorithms often use a standard technique of building decision trees based on some variation on the following general scheme. The programmer chooses a set of features, the values of which allow cat ...
Can computers think? In attempt to make sense of this question Alan
... Dennett sure that his system always works? For simple objects like thermostats and lecterns the answer is that they are well designed. For more complex objects like human beings the answer is a bit more complicated. While we might have theories for why humans behave the way they do, the reality is t ...
... Dennett sure that his system always works? For simple objects like thermostats and lecterns the answer is that they are well designed. For more complex objects like human beings the answer is a bit more complicated. While we might have theories for why humans behave the way they do, the reality is t ...
A Buddhist Critique of Cartesian Dualism in the Cognitive Sciences
... vision, many posit an intrinsic subjectivity, the counterpart to the objective side of the subject-object dichotomy. If mind is intrinsically intentional, if it is intrinsically “about something,” then it possesses its own nature and properties independently of its material substrate. As Feser (2006 ...
... vision, many posit an intrinsic subjectivity, the counterpart to the objective side of the subject-object dichotomy. If mind is intrinsically intentional, if it is intrinsically “about something,” then it possesses its own nature and properties independently of its material substrate. As Feser (2006 ...
Mental disorders are not brain disorders
... identify problems in the person’s mental life and relationships. In this regard, I suggest that if we want to align psychiatry with one of the three main forms of categorization for physical disorders outlined above, we can think of current psychiatric nosology as based not on aetiology, nor on clin ...
... identify problems in the person’s mental life and relationships. In this regard, I suggest that if we want to align psychiatry with one of the three main forms of categorization for physical disorders outlined above, we can think of current psychiatric nosology as based not on aetiology, nor on clin ...
A neurobiological mapping of theory of mind
... symptom schizophrenia, and in particular those with paranoid and delusional schizophrenia. It has been hypothesized that the ToM failure of these patients [26,37,91] is a consequence not so much from a deficit in the representation of mental states, as reported for example by Sarfati et al. [92], bu ...
... symptom schizophrenia, and in particular those with paranoid and delusional schizophrenia. It has been hypothesized that the ToM failure of these patients [26,37,91] is a consequence not so much from a deficit in the representation of mental states, as reported for example by Sarfati et al. [92], bu ...
The Chinese Room Argument
... Searle is given another fatal blow when it is pointed out that his biological requirement is also false. Searle claims that the horsepower of his engine is dependant on the firing of pistons within the engine. This is falsified by the existence of electric engines, which derive their power from else ...
... Searle is given another fatal blow when it is pointed out that his biological requirement is also false. Searle claims that the horsepower of his engine is dependant on the firing of pistons within the engine. This is falsified by the existence of electric engines, which derive their power from else ...
AI-and-brain
... Marvin Minsky, Why People Think Computers Can’t, AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, 1982. Searle J.R. Mind, brains and science. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1984. Searle J. R. Is the brain’s mind a Computer Program? Scientific American, 1990. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligenc ...
... Marvin Minsky, Why People Think Computers Can’t, AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, 1982. Searle J.R. Mind, brains and science. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1984. Searle J. R. Is the brain’s mind a Computer Program? Scientific American, 1990. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligenc ...
Agent oriented programming: An overview of the framework and
... versions of mental state, and in particular formal versions of beliefs, capabilities, choices, commitments, and possibly a few other mentalistic-sounding qualities. What will make any hardware or software component an agent is precisely the fact that one has chosen to analyze and control it in these ...
... versions of mental state, and in particular formal versions of beliefs, capabilities, choices, commitments, and possibly a few other mentalistic-sounding qualities. What will make any hardware or software component an agent is precisely the fact that one has chosen to analyze and control it in these ...
Handling Function Symbols in the DLV Grounder
... functor and the list of its arguments, in order to provide values to the variables of the #f unction unpack built-in. On the one hand, such rewriting strategy allowed, at the time of implementing, an effective support to functions without any drastic change in the grounding process; on the other han ...
... functor and the list of its arguments, in order to provide values to the variables of the #f unction unpack built-in. On the one hand, such rewriting strategy allowed, at the time of implementing, an effective support to functions without any drastic change in the grounding process; on the other han ...