Hofstadter [ 1979 , 2007 ] offered a novel Gödelian proposal which purported to reconcile the apparently contradictory theses that (1) we can talk, in non-trivial way, of mental causation being real phenomenon and (2) activity is ultimately grounded low-level rule-governed neural processes. In this paper, critically investigate Hofstadter’s analogical appeals Gödel’s 1931 First Incompleteness T...

a SPECIAL ISSUE II, pp. 34 – 44, 2008 THE IMPORTANCE AND LIMITS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

The Standard Model of particle physics has been an effective framework for describing entities of the domain relative to each other and thereby predicting missing particles. In this sense, it plays a similar role to the periodic table of the elements. Could something analogous work for AI? In this paper, we propose a dozen elements of a standard model of the mind and characterize their interrel...

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Nonaka and Takeuchi [21] assert their theory of knowledge creation blends both Western and Japanese philosophy. Although they incorporate several major tenets of rational philosophy, they overlook important criticisms that impact their model. This paper explores one element of their theory — the "enabling condition" of intention — and suggests some limitations to their approach that can be over...

What does it mean to know one’s own mind, to make up one’s mind, or to be of two minds? The paper explores some of the assumptions Westerners make about mind and confronts them with elements from the ethnography of spirit possession among Malagasy speakers. It challenges the assumption that a unified state of mind, exemplified by pure reason as opposed to passion, is the necessary basis for sou...

In neuropsychology it is commonly recognized that 70% of all the sensory receptors in the brain are inputted from the eyes. However, an important internal cognitive function of the eyes as the perceptual browser of the memory and the mind has not yet been recognized. This keynote talk contrasts the cognitive mechanisms of the eyes as both the sensor of the brain externally and the browser of th...

We present an approach to the automatic creation of extractive summaries of literary short stories. The summaries are produced with a specific objective in mind: to help a reader decide whether she would be interested in reading the complete story. To this end, the summaries give the user relevant information about the setting of the story without revealing its plot. The system relies on assort...

I recognise that the central bankers represented around this table are less prone than others to these pressures. I also recognise that sometimes when central bankers ease policy amid market turmoil, there are often reasons that are not always outwardly visible at the time. With that in mind, I hope no-one assembled here takes too personally my critical look at where we have travelled in the jo...