Cognitive science has been shaped by analytic philosophy and the computer metaphor, which has led to the dominance of such themes and notions as rationality, language, representation, functionalism, and computation. I would like to make a case for a cognitive science which lets itself be shaped by a phenomenological philosophy and biology. Central notions then become: experience, embodiment, et...

Eliminative functionalism is the view that mental attributes, of humans and other machines, consist ultimately in behavioural abilities or dispositions. Hence, ‘Strong AI’: if a machine consistently acts as if it were fully conscious, then conscious it is. From these assumptions, optimistic futurists have derived a variety of remarkable visions of our ‘post-human’ future; from widely-recognised...

Many believe that the major problem facing traditional artificial intelligence (and the functional theory of mind) is how to connect intelligence to the outside world. Some turned to robotic functionalism and a hybrid response, that attempts to rescue symbolic functionalism by grounding the symbol system with a connectionist hook to the world. Others turned to an alternative approach, embodied ...

abstract: the research at hand discusses about the notion of the theme in persian scientific and literary genres from the point of view of halliday’s systemic functional grammar (sfg) and explains and determines the similarities and differences of the two genres in persian language. in this research, after mentioning the obvious differences of the two genres from the point of view of theme type...

the present paper aims to analyze the method of sibooye in syntactic analysis with reference to grammar writing and applied syntax. the outcome of this study shows that the method of sibooye is structure writing mixed with analysis. he didn’t suffice to quoting what he heard but moves forward and does functionalism analysis. the nearest reasons showing sibooye’s attempt on this method is that m...

I will argue for a (qualified) negative answer to all three questions. Illusions of all three sorts are impossible. This leads to conclusions about the content of spatial experience and spatial concepts: I will argue for a sort of spatial functionalism, on which space is picked out as whatever plays a certain functional role, over spatial primitivism, on which we have a more direct and primitiv...