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What are we, exactly? Not biologically — we have good answers there. I mean scientifically: what kind of thing is a mind, a feeling, a self? I think the answer has been hiding in plain sight for a century. This is where I make the case. thefunctionalmind.substack.com
Unknown Host hosts The Functional Mind, a science show with 10 episodes published.
A pattern carved into stone is not, by itself, information. It becomes information the moment something can read it and do something different because of it. Without a processor, it's geology. The pattern and the process
The debate between dualists and materialists has lasted four centuries. Both sides were half right. The dualists were right that the mind is genuinely different from the matter it inhabits. The materialists were right th
Nobody has ever seen an electron. We grant it existence because our best models require it — and those models survive every test we put them to. The immune system earns existence by exactly the same standard. Same method
Lesson 2: The Persistence Test Prologue Consider two things left in a field for a year. The first is a bicycle. Steel frame, rubber tires, a chain that was recently oiled. The second is a bacterium — a single cell, one t
The mind-body problem has been framed wrong for centuries. The real question isn't whether mind and body are two distinct things. They aren't — not fundamentally. The real question is what separates living things from no
The question that has followed me for fifty years: what are we, exactly — not biologically, but scientifically? This is where the journey begins. The Functional Mind is a complete argument in 28 lessons, released fortnig
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