14 ideas
8463 | Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine] |
7508 | Good reductionism connects fields of knowledge, but doesn't replace one with another [Pinker] |
8461 | The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine] |
7510 | Connectionists say the mind is a general purpose learning device [Pinker] |
7513 | Is memory stored in protein sequences, neurons, synapses, or synapse-strengths? [Pinker] |
7509 | Roundworms live successfully with 302 neurons, so human freedom comes from our trillions [Pinker] |
7511 | Neural networks can generalise their training, e.g. truths about tigers apply mostly to lions [Pinker] |
7512 | There are five types of reasoning that seem beyond connectionist systems [Pinker, by PG] |
8462 | A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine] |
7505 | Many think that accepting human nature is to accept innumerable evils [Pinker] |
12709 | Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz] |
7516 | In 1828, the stuff of life was shown to be ordinary chemistry, not a magic gel [Pinker] |
7515 | All the evidence says evolution is cruel and wasteful, not intelligent [Pinker] |
7514 | Intelligent Design says that every unexplained phenomenon must be design, by default [Pinker] |