BI 244 Marco Facchin: Philosophy and Science of Biological Brains

“Some really interesting stuff here, although I would have appreciated a definition of computation at the outset. Yes, we can often go far without formal definitions, but here I think one would have been useful. Are we talking about input-ou…”

“What about the Receptor Theory of Consciousness? Many examples from medicine and pharmacology demonstrate that drugs and toxins can alter our consciousness. What about a new understanding of how our biological receptors work? Perhaps the ph…”

“My issue with predictive processing is that it embeds itself in computationalism when it shouldn't. The concept of representations should have died with the fall of logical positivism: If spoken language doesn't represent reality in the syn…”

“at 1:00:55 I wonder what Marco means by heuristically useful...”