Are chicken minds special?

Are Minds Computable?

This essay explores the limits of Turing machines concerning the modeling of minds and suggests alternatives to go beyond those limits.

Ideas Are Not Replicators but Minds Are

An idea is not a replicator because it does not consist of coded self-assembly instructions. It may retain structure as it passes from one individual to another, but does not replicate it. The cultural replicator is not an idea but an associatively-structured network of them that together form an internal model of the world, or worldview. A worldview is a primitive, uncoded replicator, like the...

Many Minds are No Worse than One

Insect Minds For Human Minds

This chapter was originally published in the book Human Learning: Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience. The copy attached is provided by Elsevier for the author’s benefit and for the benefit of the author’s institution, for non-commercial research, and educational use. This includes without limitation use in instruction at your institution, distribution to specific colleagues, and providing a copy ...

Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are