Cognitive science has been shaped by analytic philosophy and the computer metaphor, which has led to the dominance of such themes and notions as rationality, language, representation, functionalism, and computation. I would like to make a case for a cognitive science which lets itself be shaped by a phenomenological philosophy and biology. Central notions then become: experience, embodiment, et...

Efforts to develop extensive forest-based climate change vulnerability assessments have informed proposed management and policy options intended to promote improved on-the-ground policy outcomes. These assessments are derived from a rich vulnerability literature and are helpful in modeling complex ecosystem interactions, yet their policy relevance and impact has been limited. We argue this is d...

Eliminative functionalism is the view that mental attributes, of humans and other machines, consist ultimately in behavioural abilities or dispositions. Hence, ‘Strong AI’: if a machine consistently acts as if it were fully conscious, then conscious it is. From these assumptions, optimistic futurists have derived a variety of remarkable visions of our ‘post-human’ future; from widely-recognised...

Many believe that the major problem facing traditional artificial intelligence (and the functional theory of mind) is how to connect intelligence to the outside world. Some turned to robotic functionalism and a hybrid response, that attempts to rescue symbolic functionalism by grounding the symbol system with a connectionist hook to the world. Others turned to an alternative approach, embodied ...

abstract: the research at hand discusses about the notion of the theme in persian scientific and literary genres from the point of view of halliday’s systemic functional grammar (sfg) and explains and determines the similarities and differences of the two genres in persian language. in this research, after mentioning the obvious differences of the two genres from the point of view of theme type...

The habit of getting drunk and gambling rampant in the Cirebon Baru hamlet is a general problem faced by community Indonesia. This considered negative one because it contradicts norms that has agreed upon. behavior changed with birth development Mamba'ul Ishlah Islamic boarding school, driven several religious leaders. article aims to analyze structural functionalism process carried out school ...