Comments on: Minds Are Tricky Things — Part III http://jonathanstray.com/minds-are-tricky-things-part-iii Information, Culture, and Belief Sat, 19 May 2012 04:28:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Stray » FMRI “Mind Reading” Doesn’t Yet Threaten Humanity http://jonathanstray.com/minds-are-tricky-things-part-iii/comment-page-1#comment-303 Jonathan Stray » FMRI “Mind Reading” Doesn’t Yet Threaten Humanity Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:49:19 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=44#comment-303 [...] this problem is the fact we can’t even say what’s in our own heads. We think we can, but we can’t. Decades of psychological experiments show that access to the contents of our own minds and the [...] [...] this problem is the fact we can’t even say what’s in our own heads. We think we can, but we can’t. Decades of psychological experiments show that access to the contents of our own minds and the [...]

]]> By: Joshua Marker http://jonathanstray.com/minds-are-tricky-things-part-iii/comment-page-1#comment-70 Joshua Marker Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:52:36 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=44#comment-70 Minsky I think said something like "I bet consciousness is a stack trace" - can't recall the attribution. I've always liked that one as a summation of this position. Another keeper: Alva Nöe here at UCB recently said something about how if a rock thrown into the air suddenly acquired consciousness midflight, it would have a half dozen reasons for its apparent direction before it hit the ground. He's doing some interesting work, you may dig him if you've not read him before. One of the new wave of 'empirical philosophers'. Minsky I think said something like “I bet consciousness is a stack trace” – can’t recall the attribution. I’ve always liked that one as a summation of this position.

Another keeper: Alva Nöe here at UCB recently said something about how if a rock thrown into the air suddenly acquired consciousness midflight, it would have a half dozen reasons for its apparent direction before it hit the ground. He’s doing some interesting work, you may dig him if you’ve not read him before. One of the new wave of ‘empirical philosophers’.

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