Philosophy Between the Minds

Review for European Journal of Philosophy The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds

This book is about the central interpretative problem of quantum theory, the measurement problem, and the strategy for solving it that was suggested by Everett (1957). Barrett aims to explain these issues, with a minimum of technical apparatus; emphasizing instead the philosophical, especially metaphysical, aspects. In particular, he aims to survey in an even-handed way the various versions of ...

Darwin's mistake: explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds.

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to downplay the differences as "one of degree and not of kind" (Darwin 1871). In the present target article, we argue that Darwin was mistaken: the profound biological continuity between human and nonhuman animals masks an equally p...

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 ...

The Islamic Economic Philosophy

The Universe of Minds

The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all minds to software. Next it proves some interesting properties of the mind design space such as infinitude of minds, size and representation complexity of minds. A survey of mind design taxonomies is followed by a proposal for a new field of investigation devoted to study of minds, intellectology, a list of o...