The “Brain in a Vat” Gedankenexperiment

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Cavallaro, D.. (2004). The brain in a vat in cyberpunk: The persistence of the flesh. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Smart, J. J. C.. (2004). The brain in the vat and the question of metaphysical realism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Sprevak, M., & McLeish, C.. (2004). Magic, semantics, and Putnam’s vat brains. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Black, T.. (2002). A moorean response to brain-in-a-vat scepticism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Bostrom, N.. (2005). The simulation argument: Reply to Weatherson. Philosophical Quarterly

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Manson, N. C.. (2004). Brains, vats, and neurally-controlled animats. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Proctor, R. N., & Schiebinger, L.. (2008). Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance. Organization Studies

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A quantum psychophysics perspective on bistable perception

www.Qbism.art is an interdisciplinary web-project that synthesises a plurality of perspectives from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, quantum physics, philosophy, computer science, and digital art into a holistic transdisciplinary Gestalt. You can view a series of animated digital Qbism artworks below (the neologism ‘Qbism’ is a composite lexeme composed of ‘Quantum & Cubism’).

Abstract algorithmic digital art

Digital algorithmic artwork by Christopher B. Germann

The Chinese Room Argument against genuine artificial intelligence

Keywords: Syntax versus semantics; the problem of symbol grounding; meaning and AI, creativity and AI, intelligence and AI, embodied cognition, disembodied computation.
URL: rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil201/Searle.pdf

See also: plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/


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Waskan, J.. (2006). Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence. Philosophical Review

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Harnad, S.. (2005). Searle’s Chinese Room Argument. In Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Rodríguez, D., Hermosillo, J., & Lara, B.. (2012). Meaning in artificial agents: The symbol grounding problem revisited. Minds and Machines

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Wakefield, J. C.. (2003). The Chinese room argument reconsidered: Essentialism, indeterminacy, and strong AI. Minds and Machines

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3D Webdesign: Parametric Geometry

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Gilhooly, K. J., Georgiou, G., & Devery, U.. (2013). Incubation and creativity: Do something different. Thinking and Reasoning

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Czernecka, K., & Szymura, B.. (2008). Alexithymia – Imagination – Creativity. Personality and Individual Differences

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Pérez-Fabello, M. J., Campos, A., & Meana, J. C.. (2014). Vividness and Control of Mental Imagery and the Components of In-Depth Drawing. Creativity Research Journal

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Pérez-Fabello, M. J., Campos, A., & Felisberti, F. M.. (2018). Object-spatial imagery in fine arts, psychology, and engineering. Thinking Skills and Creativity

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Schwitzgebel, E.. (2002). How well do we know our own conscious experience? The case of visual imagery. Journal of Consciousness Studies

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Visual Perception: Digital Afterimages

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Lou, L.. (2001). Effects of voluntary attention on structured afterimages. Perception

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Powell, G., Sumner, P., & Bompas, A.. (2015). The effect of eye movements and blinks on afterimage appearance and duration. Journal of Vision

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Wede, J., & Francis, G.. (2007). Attentional effects on afterimages: Theory and data. Vision Research

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Hosoya, T., Baccus, S. A., & Meister, M.. (2005). Dynamic predictive coding by the retina. Nature

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