Paul Austin MurphyOn Consciousness and Intelligence: Is It Mainly About Definitions?This essay is on the importance — and relevance — of definitions when it comes to debates about consciousness and intelligence. (As mainly…·6 min read·17 hours ago----
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyCarlo Rovelli on the Religious Critics of ScienceThe theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli writes: “The world is full of people who say that they have The Truth. [] There is always someone…·8 min read·3 days ago--3--3
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyAnil Seth: Intelligence ≠ Consciousness ≠ IntelligenceThe critics of both panpsychism and integrated information theory (IIT) rely on an implicit— although sometimes explicit — strong…·8 min read·Jun 10, 2024----
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyNeuroscientist Anil Seth Links Panpsychism To Integrated Information Theory(i) Introduction (ii) Integrated Information Theory and Panpsychism (iii) David Chalmers on Conscious Thermostats (iv) Is Information…·9 min read·Jun 2, 2024--1--1
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyAnil Seth: Consciousness ≠ Integrated InformationIntegrated information theorists postulate a literal identity between consciousness and integrated information. The British neuroscientist…·6 min read·May 30, 2024--1--1
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyRudolf Carnap: Truth Is Relative to Convention“The conditions of the truth of sentences in a system need not be found outside the system [or convention], but must be provided within…·6 min read·May 25, 2024--4--4
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyCarlo Rovelli vs Panpsychism: “Each atom must be a proto-cyclist.”“It is like saying that since a bicycle is made of atoms, then each atom must be a proto-cyclist.” — Carlo Rovelli·6 min read·May 22, 2024--5--5
Paul Austin MurphyinPaul Austin Murphy’s Essays on PhilosophyIn 1931, the Philosopher G.F. Stout Hinted at PanpsychismGeorge Frederick Stout (1860–1944) was an English philosopher and psychologist.·3 min read·May 17, 2024----
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Paul Austin MurphyFundamental Scraps of Kant(i) The Unexperienced Soul (ii) The Unperceived Tree (iii) The Antinomies and Experience (iv) Freedom and Causal Necessity (v)…·7 min read·May 13, 2024--4--4