The War on Neuroscience : Part 1

UPDATE 4:
A correction video to this video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_voLqdalk

I made a serious misinterpretation of how Veritas48 was using the word "aboutness."

UPDATE 3:
Part 3 of this series is now up here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRkzdFG-lyE

Part 2 of my series, "Split Brains, Split Souls," is now up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEV_HsIdBI

UPDATE:
NEW ARTICLE ON THE BRAIN AND SPIRITUALITY:
"Selective brain damage modulates human spirituality," at
Physorg.com:
http://www.physorg.com/news185027522.html

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Links to mentioned sites:

Veritas48's video, "Why I Don't Believe in God: A Response to FatGermanBastard" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOWRFTWyEA

NOTE: Veritas48's video is no longer available. His channel was shut down (apparently by a hacker).

In case you don't know what Mirror Neurons are:
http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_MirrorNeurons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8WV1zAh9zU

Intersubjectivity and Mirror Neurons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Dy--hmgUA

V.S. Ramachandran:
MIRROR NEURONS and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p1.html

In case you don't know what Broca's area is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_area
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/awp118v1

A couple of the tasks that artificial neural nets been successfully used for:

Neural Networks for Medical and Psychiatric Diagnosis
http://www.neuroxl.com/neural_networks_psychiatry.htm
http://www.cormactech.com/hot/medical.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5331550.html

Speech-Recognition
http://www.calsci.com/speech.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17472244/Ai-for-Speech-Recognition
http://www.learnartificialneuralnetworks.com/speechrecognition.html#neuralnet...
http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/tutordemos/nnet_recog/recog.html
http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/tutordemos/nnet_training/tutorial.html

How part of a rat's brain learned to fly an F-22 fighter jet:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=241

PHILOSOPHICAL ZOMBIES

Philosophical Zombies:
http://www.consciousentities.com/dennett.htm

Knock-down refutation of Philosophical Zombies by Daniel C. Dennett:
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/unzombie.htm

PROJECT BLUE BRAIN (an example of a brute force attempt to model the brain):
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

THE WEDGE STRATEGY:
http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html

Talking Brains - a good brain blog:
http://talkingbrains.blogspot.com/

Dennett on Deflating Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYYFQiN052c

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[Hyardacil]

Well I see Veritas doing what is a simple old trick of abstract language.

'aboutness' probably doesn't mean anything at all that doesn't have the specific function of helping his argument.

[SephieRothe]

Moby Dick just had the plot as a back drop.  It was a beautiful discussion of everything from psychology to history

[Neshuah1]

in response to ... Fat German Bastard :D :D :D

[JohananRaatz]

@zarkoff45 (part 2) From what I have heard of Dennett's response to the p-zombie argument it is simply an exercise in question begging.

If you define a mind exclusively in behavioristic terms (producing mental language etc.) then of course there will be no difference between a conscious person and a p-zombie. But defining a person in purely behavioristic terms was the issue of contention in the first place.

Or did I miss something?

[JohananRaatz]

@zarkoff45: People don't have a problem with neuroscience. What they have a problem with is eliminativism masquerading as neuroscience.

Now some people can't tell the difference between philosophy of mind and neuroscience. But that is more indicative of a category error on their part than on a "war on neuroscience" by people who are self-aware that they aren't p-zombies.

Yes there will be a scientific explanation of the mind -explaining it away isn't the same as explaining it though.

[M4tuX]

@luisisrael15 And who studies the Mind? The Flying Spaghetti Monster, of course.

[SnazzyPazzyMark2]

Holy HELL!

This was painful to watch!

...who the hell makes a video on material which requires concentration, with both a voice-over AND shitloadsa text ???

...Not to mention how your perspective of the universe is, to say the least, chilling.

[WarPig15]

I have to get EMPs. Machines are coming.