PSYCHE 16(1) ... essay results

Recently there was a student essay contest run by the ASSC (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) The five winners are published in the ASSC journal PSYCHE. One of them was mine. They have finally got around to publishing them. Hales C. 2010. The scientific evidence of qualia

Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

Hi folk, Our belief system state in relation to the the truth/falsehood of COMP is a truly bizarre corner of science. The concept is simple, yet as an empirical proposition, it has eluded the kind of definitive testing that, for example, basic physics would accept as conclusive. If X is a

Re: Maudlin How many times does COMP have to be false before its false?

BM I don't think AGI workers have ever promised consciousness - just intelligence. In fact for many purposes consciousness would be regarded as an unacceptable attribute (c.f. John McCarthy http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/consciousness/consciousness.html ). CH The AGI movement has been

New consciousness paper

Dear Folk, I thought you might be interested in the following paper, which is essentially my PhD outcome packaged into a journal paper (49 pages!), contextualised with respect to consciousness, and now finally published in a special journal issue on the ‘Hard problem of Consciousness’.

Book: Revolutions of Scientific Structure

Hi , My book is finally out. Hales CG. 2014. “The Revolutions of Scientific Structure” Press release here http://www.worldscientific.com/page/pressroom/2014-07-11-01 The book is here: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9211 The Front-Matter (preface) and preamble

Causing the 2nd revolution of scientific structure

Hi Liz, Mike, et.al. It's time for the nature/descriptions of it/math relationship to undergo some formal attention by science. Discussions of the options we have in how we humans behave when describing the universe, in any other human social context, would be the job of a *governing