Michele Pasin / Quotes

The plasticity principle

even if our own private experiences are purely creations of our brains. To paraphrase the late neurobiologist (and Buddhist) Francisco Varela, we are…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #brain #representation #perception #neuroscience

What if the brain doesn't represent the world?

Modern neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence often implicitly assume that our senses determine the contents of our conscious experience. The…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #brain #representation #artificial-intelligence #perception

Problem: how to differentiate categories from individuals? a sep-driven approximation..

Another important aspect of ontology design concerns the drawing of a line between categories and individuals. For instance, should connectionism be…

From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy #connectionism #philosophy #instances #individuals #ontology

Problem: “philosophy of x” vs. “x”

In numerous places in the expert-supplied taxonomies, we also noticed that cat- egory names sometimes included a “philosophy of” prefix and sometimes did not…

From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy #philosophy #connectionism #artificial-intelligence #intelligence #name

Condemned to treat representations as the world

“Many people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #representation #knowledge #experience #perception

Conditions of satisfaction

Whenever we have an intentional state that has a non-null direction of fit, the fit will either be achieved or not: the belief will be true, the desire will…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #intentionality #representation #truth