It is shown that any stabilizing, certainty equivalence control used within an adaptive control system, causes the familiar interconnection of a controlled process and associated output estimator to be detectable through the estimator's output error e p , for every frozen value of the index or parameter vector p upon which both the estimator and controller dynamics depend. The fact that certain...

Most philosophers, including all materialists I know of, believe that I am a complex thing—a thing with parts—and that my mental life is (or is a result of) the interaction of these parts. These philosophers often believe that I am a body or a brain, and my mental life is (or is a product of) brain activity. In this paper, I develop and defend a novel argument against this view. The argument tu...