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Can A Robot, An Insect Or God Be Aware?: Scientific American
Still no theory of how we attribute minds
Looking at the results from these various studies, it is hard to avoid having the sense that one should be able to construct a single unified theory that explains the whole pattern of people’s intuitions. Such a theory would describe the underlying cognitive processes that lead…
Functional And Physical Objects - The Big Picture
Karl popper's three worlds of knowledge
World 1: There is, first, the world that consists of physical bodies: of stones and of stars; of plants and of animals; but also of radiation, and of other forms of physical energy. I (Karl Popper) will call this physical world ‘world 1’. World 2: There is, secondly, the mental…