The madman or religious maniac can be entirely coherent and systematic yet also be completely divorced from the world. His system of ...

  Hilary Putnam once held the position (i.e., in the 1960s) that consciousness is literally the brain computing. That also had the impl...

One A definition isn't just an appendage to the word under scrutiny. The word would have no meaning if it weren't for the defin...

  Let's start off with a longish quote from the neuroscientist, writer and broadcaster Susan Greenfield: “ The idea [of a con...

...Thoughts-Computations-Rules-Algorithms... Many "cognitivists" believe that the brain is a computer. (Sometimes th...