Archive for August 2022

One of the most typical unaware premises with which also professional neurologists and philosophers of mind work is what I call the ‘mind-brain-function fallacy’, and from which they jump to the conclusion of what is called the ‘mind-brain identity.’ It can be summarized as follows: since an impairment to our brain structure leads to cognitive…

Last month, Google announced that its DeepMind AI program AlphaFold can ‘predict’ all the 200 million protein structures from 1 million species. This is, indeed, an impressive achievement. In a sense, I consider it an example of what AI really could be useful for: Not so much to create humanoids or sci-fi conscious computers, but…