This book missells itself, and has its flaws, but it's worth reading if only to encourage the reader to turn a critical eye on Dennett's own arguments.Let's get one thing out of the way, an Intuition Pump is a thought experiment as far as I can see, and giving it another label (something Dennett'...
Dennett starts this book, careful to align the specific context of Darwin's ideas from a material biology context to one of functionalism.With this alignment, Darwin seeks to atomize all complexity into functional processes so that the material moves within a complexity are atomized into building...
No. The algorithms we tend to talk about almost always do some-algorithm can be mathematically proven to yield in a foolproof way, and this thing interesting—that's why they attract our attention. But a procedure is especially true of evolutionary algorithms. Most of the controversies about doesn...