Archive for the ‘neurophilosophy’ Category

Benzon: First Person: Neuro-Cognitive Notes on the…

May 14, 2007
Benzon: First Person: Neuro-Cognitive Notes on the Self in Life and in Fiction .


“I devote the single largest section of this essay to a detailed account of how a nervous system implements personal pronouns.”

Neurophilosophy"…to collect human scent for futu…

May 13, 2007
Neurophilosophy


“…to collect human scent for future use to track a specified target”.

Paradise Engineering " The metabolic pathways of …

February 17, 2007

Paradise Engineering

” The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture – a motivational system based on heritable gradients of bliss.”


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