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  1. Subsymbolic

    Very interesting article here. I think it’s spot on!

    Here https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article Discuss.
  2. Subsymbolic

    Lynne Rudder Baker has died.

    I just discovered that she died the day before Christmas. http://www.umass.edu/philosophy/news/memoriam-lynne-rudder-baker-1944-2017 It's been a bad year for great philosophers.
  3. Subsymbolic

    There isn't really a 'freewill problem'.

    I'm restarting this as a separate thread as it's clearly not a good fit for the Freewill Poll. I think that the overwhelming majority of the freewill problem comes from remaining committed to a series of misleading questions based upon some very archaic assumptions, most of which don't...
  4. Subsymbolic

    Neural processing, from the bottom, from the top or somewhere in the middle?

    I think there's a revolution in understanding rather a lot of neural processing going on right now and right under our noses. I've argued for this elsewhere, but I think I'll have a go at putting the case that prediction and error correction using strategies that are best modeled and understood...
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    New paper suggests life arrived from elsewhere (rather a long time ago)!

    Just read this. While it's quite convincing evidence that life developed off world, I'm unsure that the conclusion of the paper, that life is common across the universe, is warranted. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171218154925.htm A theory that has been gaining credence over...
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