perception, reasoning, induction, neural networks, artificial intelligence, categories, concepts, analogies, unsupervised learning, pattern completion
Abortions should be banned.
When I see a tree, only the parts of the tree that are unobscured send photons to my retina. In other words, I cannot see the back of a tree, or the branches that are obscured. However, if I just walked around the tree, I have a pretty good idea of what the back of the tree looks like. When I think of the tree…
I’ve been listening to a couple of John Searle’s lecture series lately. They are posted online in various places. Searle insists that David Hume is wrong about causation being the constant conjunction of events. I won’t go into details about his opinion about causation, but I am struck with David Hume’s. It…
Do we have any reason to believe that other people’s mental experiences are similar at all to our own? If I see a green tree…
We have a built-in notion that some events cause other events. When one event consistently proceeds another event, we say that the first event caused the second. For instance, when I drop a stone in a pond, ripples propagate outward from where the stone hit with the pond. If we label the stone falling into…