Michael Flynn's Blog, page 115

m_francis @ 2009-03-25T17:35:00

The Brain is Not a Computer; the Mind is not a Program

Continuing a discussion begun earlier, here is John Searle, he of Chinese Room fame, on the subject:
users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html


Myths About the Middle Ages

Franklin is an Australian mathematician and one time friend of the late philosophical gadfly David Stove.  He apparently is interested in the Middle Ages and presents this compendium of Links to Elsewhere regarding some common myths.  Some of the links may be d

m_francis @ 2009-03-24T14:26:00

Limitations on Wind Power

m_francis @ 2009-03-22T18:56:00

In a response to an earlier post, mythusmage had this to say:

Parrots aren't smart? Parrots are smart, at being parrots. When you say that "...one can find enthusiasts even of 'intelligent parrots'", you are saying that parrots -if not other animals- may be treated as objects, in the face of evidence that we are animals ourselves, and so could be called objects if animals be objects.

Evolution shows us that we are descended from a common ancestor with all other life on and in this planet. This inc