Which great opponent of cartesian dualism

Michael Miles: Jolly good. Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: what great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states? Woman: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him. Well, how many archaeologists have heard about Bergson? Ratbag: I don't know that. Quizmaster: Well -- have a guess! Ratbag: Oh Henri Bergson? Piano chords Ratbag: Ooh, that was lucky.

I never even heard of him. Ratbag: I don't like darkies. Quizmaster: Ha ha ha maniacal cackle She doesn't like darkies. Ha ha ha. Who does? Ha ha ha! Well now, Mrs Scum, your second question for the blow on the head is: What is the main food eaten by penguins? What is the principal food that penguins eat? Ratbag: Pork luncheon meat.

Quizmaster: No. Ratbag: Spam. Quizmaster: No, no, no, no. Ratbag: Horses. The story so far, Dr. Manette is in England after eighteen years as he speaks French Revolution type music creeps in under his words in the Bastille.

His daughter Lucy awaits her lover Charles Darney, who we have just learned is in fact the nephew of the Marquis de St Evremond, whose cruelty had placed Manette in the Bastille. Darney arrives to find Lucy tending her aged father. Lucy is nursing her father. Some low music continues over. Suddenly the door bursts open and Charles Darnay enters. And while that's going on, here is the news for gibbons. No gibbons were involved in And while that's going on, here from Westminster is a parliamentary report for Humans.

In the debate, a spokesman accused the goverment of being silly and doing not at all good things. The member accepted this in the spirit of healthy criticism, but denied that he had ever been naughty with a choir boy.

Angry shouts of 'What about the Watermelon then? Any further interruptions would be cut up and distributed amongst the poor. For the Government, a front-bench spokesman said the Agricultural Tariff would have to be raised, and he fancied a bit. Futhermore, he argued, this would give a large boost to farmers, him, his friends, and Miss Moist of Knightsbridge.

From the back benches there were opposition shouts of 'Postcards for sale' and a healthy cry of 'Who likes a sailor then?

Replying, the Shadow Minister said he could no longer deny the rumors, but he and the Dachshund were very happy. And in any case he argued Rhubarb was cheap, and what was the harm in a sauna bath? Yum Yum. Thats the news for wombats, and now Attila the Bun!

A village idiot in smock and straw hat, red cheeks, straw in mouth, sitting on a wall, making funny noises and rolling his eyes. Arthur Figgis is an idiot. A village idiot.

Tonight we look at the idiot in society. Cut to close-up of Figgis talking to camera. Very big close-up losing the top and bottom of his head. And this is the role that That's Mr Jenkins - he's another idiot. And so you see the idiot does provide a vital psycho-social service for this community. Oh, excuse me, a coach party has just arrived. I shall have to fall off the wall, I'm afraid. He falls backwards off the wall.

Cut to Figgins in idiot's costume coming out of a suburban home. He walks on to the lawn on which are several pieces of gym equipment. He runs head-on into horse speeded up and falls over, concussed. Arthur takes idiotting seriously.

He is up at six o'clock every morning working on special training equipment designed to keep him silly.

And of course he takes great pride in his appearance. Figgis, dressed in nice clean smock, jumps into a pond. He immediately scrambles up, pulls out a mirror and pats mud an his face critically, as if making-up. Like the doctor, the blacksmith, the carpenter, Mr Figgis is an important figure in this village and - like them - he uses the local bank.

Village square. A bank. Figgis is walking towards it. People giggling and pointing. He goes into a silly routine. Figgis enters the bank.

Cut to bank manager standing outside bank. Well nowadays a really blithering idiot can make anything up to ten thousand pounds a year - if he's the head of some big industrial combine. But of course, the more old-fashioned idiot still refuses to take money. We see Figgis handing over a cheque to cashier; cashier pushes across a pile of moss, pebbles, bits of wood and acorns. But Mr Figgis is no ordinary idiot.

He is a lecturer in idiocy at the University of East Anglia. Here he is taking a class of third-year students. Half a dozen loonies led by Figgis come dancing through the glade singing tunelessly. They are wearing long University scarves. After three years of study these apprentice idiots receive a diploma of idiocy, a handful of mud and a kick on the head. A vice-chancellor stands in a University setting with some young idiots in front of him.

They wear idiot gear with BA hoods. One walks forward to him, he gets a diploma, a faceful of mud and stoops to receive his kick on the head. Cut to happy parents smiling proudly. I'm a completely self-taught idiot. I mean, ooh arh, nob arhh, nob arhh If Otto is given a choice between losing his finger or his notebook he may well make the same choice.

In contrast, the legal system judges the stealing of notebooks and fingers differently. But we need to value ourselves as something beyond just memory — mere information storage machines — particularly now in an age where information is available so cheaply and easily.

In the West, this is being promoted as purely to assist doctors, not making them redundant. But in the Third World it offers the prospect of allowing many trained nurses to access medical expertise as an alternative to the high cost of training and retaining doctors. A: Because it was coupled to a mathematician. This New Scientist article identifies 8…. Transcranial direct current stimulation: non-invasive. Helps people recover from stroke and supposedly boosts learning of both manual and mathematical skills.

Epidural cortical stimulation is a halfway house: you do get a hole in your head, but no wires in the brain, and it has helped severely depressed people. The vagus nerve connects your brain to many major organs. Stimulating it can treat epilepsy and depression — and might even curb overeating. Ultrasound focused within the skull can trigger movement in animals — could it give us a safe way to plug technology into the brain? Transcranial magnetic stimulation lets us turn parts of the brain on or off at will.

It can ease depression too, and a handheld device may be on the way. With optogenetics , researchers can implant optical fibres to control genetically modified animals — could gene therapy bring it to humans? Magnetogenetics is a new spin on optogenetics, using magnets instead of fibre optics to turn nerve cells on and off.

And Ramachandran does not explicitly include memory. I was only considering what senses, motor functions and memories count as me. Proponents of the Extended Mind Thesis EMT argue that the mind literally extends into the world because mental states literally extend into the world. But the arguments presented in favour of these claims are compatible with a much weaker conclusion, expressed as the Extended Machinery of Mind Thesis EMMT that secures only the extension of the enablers of mental states.

What is required is a mark of the mental that can settle the constitutive versus enabling issue. Thus, the strongest move for the EM theorist to make is to reject non-derived content as the mark of the mental and seek an alternative.

Because enactivism rejects the representational view of mind then if it can be made to work as an account of mentality it offers promise with regard to the formation of a new mark of the mental on which a genuinely interesting EMT can be based. I really enjoyed this, thank you. Maybe you would consider making a post about this sometime. To help clarify…. Imagine a number of layers, like an onion: 1. Outside of ourselves. Outside of our body but used as part of thinking a la Extended Mind thesis:.

Part of our body but not our brain. A layer of sensorimotor functions within our brain. The innermost part, relatively poorly understood.

Or 4 and 5? Or are you talking about between different embodied agents? Quantifying freedom. Pingback: Alief, Belief and C-lief Headbirths. Pingback: Caring Headbirths. Pingback: The Mind of Society Headbirths. Pingback: Some Good Reason Headbirths. Pingback: Friston and Hohwy on Clark Headbirths. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.