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…
Tag: consciousness
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…
The Hard Problem of Consciousness as a Blocker for AI/ML
One of the most infamous challenges for the mainstream physicalist paradigm of today is the hard problem of consciousness, also called the mind-body Read More…
Defining Consciousness in Philosophy
There are a multitude of definitions for “consciousness,” most of them lacking. In this article, we discuss the philosophical definitions, as tRead More…