Hi Philosophy-Neuroscience twitter! Seems like some neuro folks want to know what the hell Philosophers of Mind (TM) do. I recommend reading these seven papers to start: Frege 1892; Putnam 1975 (and/or Burge 1979); Loar 1987; Kripke 1979; Kaplan 1977; Russell 1905; Perry 1979
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Serious question: how do philosophers expect anyone working in emergent tech to take pre-1980 philosophical accounts of "mind" seriously? Yes, some were ahead of their time, but we've got
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The core concepts of neural networks (associative representation and learning with spreading activation units) were anticipated even by Freud, and firmly around in the 1950ies. But yes, much of philosophy of mind is still essentially pre Turing, which is like physics pre Einstein
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Anticipated by Aristotle. Associationism is oooooooollllllllllldddddddddd.
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