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Minds and Brains
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Minds and Brains is a personal blog at philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com about philosophy and science. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its philosophy of mind and psychology posts, such as those on consciousness, the simmballs and careenium analogy, and how the body's proprioception supports walking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings from a Naturalist
What Hacker News says?
Since you happened to use marbles as the analogy, I think you may find "I am a strange loop"[1] and the concept of simmballs and the careenium[2] interesting. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop [2] https://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/the...
Comment linking /2008/01/24/the-careenium/
on “What If Consciousness Comes First?”Zuk's critique of the paleo diet has itself been soundly criticized, e.g. [1] and [2]. Of course she's gotten many details right; the food that is available today doesn't resemble Paleo-era foods very much, so how can we truly recreate their diet? She cherry-picked studies though, just like Ancel Keyes did when he declared that dietary fat was killing us. As for barefoot running, the barefoot shoes are seen as a mag…
Comment linking /2013/03/01/defending-paleo-a-response-to-marlene-zuks-critique-of-paleofantasy/
on “Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says”Humans fuse a lot of sensory data though. For example, walking without proprioception is incredibly hard: https://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/liv...
Comment linking /2007/10/14/living-without-proprioception/
on “Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope”