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Fish Pain: An Inconvenient Truth, Culum Brown
Fish Pain: An Inconvenient Truth, Culum Brown
Culum Brown, PhD
Whether fish feel pain is a hot political topic. The consequences of our denial are huge given the billions of fish that are slaughtered annually for human consumption. The economic costs of changing our commercial fishery harvest practices are also likely to be great. Key outlines a structure-function analogy of pain in humans, tries to force that template on the rest of the vertebrate kingdom, and fails. His target article has so far elicited 34 commentaries from scientific experts from a broad range of disciplines; only three of these support his position. The broad consensus from the scientific community is …
Cognitive Evidence Of Fish Sentience, Jonathan Balcombe
Cognitive Evidence Of Fish Sentience, Jonathan Balcombe
Jonathan Balcombe, PhD
I present a little-known example of flexible, opportunistic behavior by a species of fish to undermine Key’s (2016) thesis that fish are unconscious and unable to feel. Lack of a cortex is flimsy grounds for denying pain to fish, for on that criterion we must also then deny it to all non-mammals, including birds, which goes against scientific consensus. Notwithstanding science’s fundamental inability to prove anything, the precautionary principal dictates that we should give the benefit of the doubt to fish, and the state of the oceans dictates that we act on it now.
You, Your Neurons, And Free Will: Concerns About Reductionism And The Popularization Of Cognitive Science, Karl G. D. Bailey
You, Your Neurons, And Free Will: Concerns About Reductionism And The Popularization Of Cognitive Science, Karl G. D. Bailey
Karl Bailey
No abstract provided.
Substituting The Senses, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein, Andy Clark
Substituting The Senses, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein, Andy Clark
Mirko Farina
Sensory substitution devices are a type of sensory prosthesis that (typically) convert visual stimuli transduced by a camera into tactile or auditory stimulation. They are designed to be used by people with impaired vision so that they can recover some of the functions normally subserved by vision. In this chapter we will consider what philosophers might learn about the nature of the senses from the neuroscience of sensory substitution. We will show how sensory substitution devices work by exploiting the cross-modal plasticity of sensory cortex: the ability of sensory cortex to pick up some types of information about the external …
The Evolved Apprentice. How Evolution Made Humans Unique, Mirko Farina
The Evolved Apprentice. How Evolution Made Humans Unique, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
No abstract provided.
Perception, Action, And Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics And Two Visual Systems, Mirko Farina
Perception, Action, And Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics And Two Visual Systems, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
No abstract provided.
Do Ssds Extend The Conscious Mind?, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein
Do Ssds Extend The Conscious Mind?, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein
Mirko Farina
Is the brain the biological substrate of consciousness? Most naturalistic philosophers of mind have supposed that the answer must obviously be «yes » to this question. However, a growing number of philosophers working in 4e (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) cognitive science have begun to challenge this assumption, arguing instead that consciousness supervenes on the whole embodied animal in dynamic interaction with the environment. We call views that share this claim dynamic sensorimotor theories of consciousness (DSM). Clark (2009), a founder and leading proponent of the hypothesis of the extended mind, demurs, arguing that as matter of fact the biology of …
Embraining Culture: Leaky Minds And Spongy Brains, Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina
Embraining Culture: Leaky Minds And Spongy Brains, Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
We offer an argument for the extended mind based on considerations from brain development. We argue that our brains develop to function in partnership with cognitive resources located in our external environments. Through our cultural upbringing we are trained to use artefacts in problem solving that become factored into the cognitive routines our brains support. Our brains literally grow to work in close partnership with resources we regularly and reliably interact with. We take this argument to be in line with complementarity or “second-wave” defences of the extended mind that stress the functional differences between biological elements and external, environmental …
Cognitive Systems And The Extended Mind, Mirko Farina
Cognitive Systems And The Extended Mind, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
No abstract provided.
Supersizing The Mind: Embodiment, Action And Cognitive Extension, Mirko Farina
Supersizing The Mind: Embodiment, Action And Cognitive Extension, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
No abstract provided.
The Palmer Philosophy Of Chiropractic – An Historical Perspective., Dennis M. Richards
The Palmer Philosophy Of Chiropractic – An Historical Perspective., Dennis M. Richards
Dennis M Richards
This paper presents the Palmer philosophy of chiropractic from an historical viewpoint. It examines how influences in the life of DD Palmer, such as spiritualism, theosophy and magnetic healing helped to shape the chiropractic philosophy expressed by him. It also oulines the philosophy of BJ Palmer, explaining how it may have been influenced by legal challenges to the early pioneers of chiropractic. Contemporary expression of the Palmer philosophy, as articulated by Strang, is also noted.