Clik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Two Pieces of Food for Thought
Looks like I haven’t posted in a while, and this post will be on the shorter side. However, here are two interesting ideas I’ve come across recently that are definitely worth sharing: 1) Money: The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Philosophy of Cognitive Science: An Introduction
I realize that I haven’t posted in a really really long time; my last article about a month ago was just a couple half-hearted summaries on articles I had read months before that. I’ve thus far been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What’s it Like to Be a Bat? Contemplating the Mind-Body Problem
(Note: This is my first post in a series about the philosophy of cognitive science(s)) Today’s story begins with a well-known 16th-century French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher by the name...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“On foreign policy, Obama trounces GOP rivals”
The Article – CNN If Barack Obama becomes a one-term president as our beloved turtle Mitch McConnell so badly wants him to be, he can at the very least point to an impressive foreign policy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An incredibly simple proof of the halting problem (in Scheme)
Don’t know the programming language Scheme? Don’t have to! (Even if you *had* to it would take less than an hour to learn basic syntax). When I began this blog I intended to make a blog post explaining...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poverty of The Stimulus and the Rationalist/Empiricist Debate
(Note: This is my second post in the series about the philosophy of cognitive science) Imagine that you’re a traveler passing through a small village in a foreign land, and as you’re trying to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free-market solutions to saving the environment?
The new Republican flavor of the week is Ron Paul, and since he looks like a contender to win the Iowa caucuses, I’ve been reading up on libertarianism and its proposed solutions on several issues that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Basic Model for Consciousness
The nature of consciousness is a fundamental mystery of human condition, as much a philosophical and epistemological question as a scientific one. Many of the blog posts so far have explored the exact...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wise Words
“I think that there is oftentimes the impulse to suggest that if the two parties are disagreeing, then they’re equally at fault and the truth lies somewhere in the middle, and an equivalence is...
View Article
