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Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology
Itiel Dror, Stevan Harnad
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition…
What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes
Stevan Harnad
Julian Jaynes's profound humanitarian convictions not only prevented him from going to war, but would have prevented him from ever kicking a dog. Yet according to his theory, not o…
Confirmation Bias and the Open Access Advantage: Some Methodological Suggestions for the Davis Citation Study
Stevan Harnad
Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. 15% of authors paid to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome is a significant OA citation Advantage, but…
How Is Meaning Grounded in Dictionary Definitions?
A. Blondin Masse, G. Chicoisne, Y. Gargouri +3
Meaning cannot be based on dictionary definitions all the way down: at some point the circularity of definitions must be broken in some way, by grounding the meanings of certain wo…