This is an amazing story: The experts were baffled by the 10-year-old girl who was born missing the right side of her brain, whose job it is to map the left field of vision. [...] Scans on the girl showed that the retinal nerve fibres carrying visual information from the back of the eye which [...]
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I’ve been studying philosophy of mind for a while, but recently I’ve been delving into psychology, cognitive science and some of the so-called hard sciences- biology, neuroscience, chemistry. A think you learn from a particular brand of philosophers is to always attempt to take into account things like intentionality, qualia and the unity of conscious [...]
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The extended mind is an interesting theory of consciousness and cognition that attempts to reshape the way we look at what it means to be human. Does they mind end at our meaty borders? Can palm-pilots become external modules of the mind? I’m not so sure if there is much about the theory that is [...]
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