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Neanderthal or Homo Sapiens Family Cooking Animal Meat over Bonfire and then Eating it. Tribe of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Wearing Animal Skins Eating in a Dark Scary Cave at Night

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 1, 2020

Categorized
Creativity, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Consciousness Explained (book), Creativity, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dor, Hypothetical thinking, Imagination, Keith Frankish, Language, The Instruction of Imagination (book2015)}

Did the Human Mind Originate in Telling Ourselves Stories?

_{A philosopher and writer tries to account for the jump from animal to human by wholly natural means} _{Denyse O'Leary

September 1, 2020

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Creativity, Philosophy of Mind}

Philosopher Keith Frankish melds linguist Daniel Dor’s ideas with philosopher Daniel Dennett’s to come up with a revealingly circular theory. Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
June 14, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Hugh McLachlan, Ian McEwan, Imagination, Machines Like Me (book), Robots}

We Can Imagine Robots That Think and Feel

_{But does that make them more likely?} _{News

June 14, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence}

If Shakespeare is right about imagination, Sophia will certainly break some hearts.

Does Vivid Imagination Help “Explain” Consciousness?

_{A popular science magazine struggles to make the case} _{Denyse O'Leary

June 12, 2019

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Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind}

Vivid imagination doesn’t explain human consciousness (or the ability to abstract); they are one of its characteristics. The second film in the Science Uprising series mocks the prejudice that is always looking for "explanations" of consciousness that really aim at explaining it away.