Greetings all,
Next Monday 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room Elizabeth Schier
(Macquarie) will talk to us about 'Connectionism, Content and Mental
Causation'
At the heart of the problem of mental causation is the concern that
multiply realisable functional properties do not have causal powers
that are over and above those of their realisers. However a point of
fairly universal agreement that often goes unnoticed is that organised
wholes have properties that are real and distinct from the properties
of their parts. In this paper I argue that the connectionist can avoid
the problem of mental causation, at least for representational
content, because content is only a property of the organised whole
that is the firing network. So for the connectionist, representational
content is real, physical and yet not a property of the entities of
micro-physics.
For further information see
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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