Why reality must be intelligible: language, perception, challenges for AI
Science and philosophy presuppose intelligibility Science and philosophy both presuppose that reality is intelligible, meaning that it can be undeRead More…
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The epistemic challenges of the meta-problem of consciousness
The meta-problem of consciousness Philosopher David Chalmers elucidated the hard problem of consciousness in 1995. Namely, there is no way, Read More…
Reductionism vs. Non-reductionism in Ontology of Mind, Matter, and Technology
Introduction The dominant scientific and philosophical ideology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was (and remains in this young century) Read More…
Computer Science and the Evolutionary Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness
Evolution, the brain, and consciousness According to the theory of evolution by natural selection, one of the most validated and empirically suppoRead More…
In Defense of the Pit Bull: How pseudoscience, the media, and racism turned America’s dog into a social construct
Defining “pit bull” The pit bull has been so maligned and misrepresented that even the term “pit bull” is now imprecise. It is more of a sRead More…