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an informal philosophy blog by Gregg Shores

Category: Color

Our Inner Universes: the Neuroscience of Reality

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” —from Seduction of the Minotaur, by Anaïs … More

Hallucination, Neural Correlates of Consciousness, Neuroscience

What is it about Lemons?

  Barry Stroud is one of the most important and respected philosophers of his generation. His work is a “long-standing … More

Barry Stroud, Color, Tom Nagel

Carroll, Chalmers, and the Hard Problem: a Commentary, Part I

What is consciousness anyway?  And how did it get here?  How can 3 pounds of brain tissue create conscious experience?  … More

Artificial Intelligence, Color, Consciousness, Darwin, David Chalmers, Evolution, Sean Carroll

Talkin about Mona

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” — … More

Color, Dan Dennett, Galen Strawson

The Mind-body Problem, part IV

This is the last part of our freestyle excursion through John Heil’s fine essay. See Part I for some introductory … More

C. D. Broad, Colin McGinn, Consciousness, David Hume, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harmon, J. J. C. Smart, qualia, Spinoza, William Lycan

The Mind/Body Problem, part I

Back to basics. Last year, we took a look at the introduction to John Heil’s excellent Philosophy of Mind (3rd ed, … More

Color, Consciousness, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Churchland, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Stich, T. H. Huxley, Thomas Hobbes, U.T. Place

HELP! MY SELF-DRIVING CAR IS A ZOMBIE!

This is the time of year to talk about monsters, and Sean Carroll does not miss the opportunity. A few … More

Artificial Intelligence, Color, Dualism, Materialism, Sean Carroll, self-driving car, Star Trek

Consciousness: An Object Lesson

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks have been having an entertaining series of conversations in the on-line section of the New … More

Color, Consciousness, John Campbell, Materialism, NCC, Quassim Cassam, Riccardo Manzotti, Stephen Palmer, Steven Shevell, Tim Parks

The Materialist Who Means It

Dan Dennett is a materialist. Dualists think that there are two kinds of things in the world—mind and body. Dennett … More

Christof Koch, Color, Dan Dennett, NCC, Neurobiology, Stephen Palmer, Steven Shevell

Carroll on Color

In The Big Picture, Sean Carroll is anxious to reject religious ideas of the immortal soul, and this makes him … More

Behaviorism, Christof Koch, Color, Dan Dennett, Descartes, Dualism, Gilbert Ryle, Materialism, Neurobiology, Sean Carroll, Stephen Palmer

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