14 ideas
7508 | Good reductionism connects fields of knowledge, but doesn't replace one with another [Pinker] |
16209 | How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson] |
22449 | When we say 'is red' we don't mean 'seems red to most people' [Foot] |
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] |
22451 | All people need affection, cooperation, community and help in trouble [Foot] |
7505 | Many think that accepting human nature is to accept innumerable evils [Pinker] |
22452 | Do we have a concept of value, other than wanting something, or making an effort to get it? [Foot] |
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] |