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There Are Two Cognitive Science Approaches: Only One of Them Leads to AI Minds

Two Kinds of Cognitive Science

As I’ve written about recently, in the mid 1950’s there arose a ‘cognitive revolution’ in psychology (see here and here). This led to the birth of several distinct disciplines including neuroscience, AI,...

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The Measurement Problem: Philosophy and Linguistics on AI Language Ability

A note on today’s post!

Today’s post is a collaboration with . Due to technical difficulties (on my end) I cannot cross list the post we did together. So I am copying and pasting our post onto my page, as it appeared here!!

Not...

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There is No Science of the Mind (Only the Brain)

What Does the Term ‘Mind’ Mean?

Here are some broad philosophical questions we can ask when studying the mind/brain (1) What are we doing when we study the ‘mind’? Specifically, are we only studying the brain, or something more than t...

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How the Mind Became a Computer

The Birth Of Cognitive Science

I gave a talk this month that led me down a rabbit hole about the history and birth of a variety of different fields including, cognitive science, AI, neuroscience, computer science, and theoretical linguisti...

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A Philosophy of Mind Reading List

People have asked me to suggest a philosophy of mind reading list, something people could read to understand the literature that informs the topics I write about. The following is a suggested reading list for the philosophy of mind!

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    Philosopher of mind (PhD, Columbia). I study minds and whether AIs have them. Rigorous thinking on AI consciousness.

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    Trained linguist. I write about how language shapes power, identity, and professional life, and what the science of language says about what you're experiencing but can't quite name. Views my own, not my employer's.

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