creators_name: Harnad, Stevan type: journalp datestamp: 2001-06-19 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:42 metadata_visibility: show title: Explaining the Mind: Problems, Problems ispublished: pub subjects: behav-neuro-sci subjects: cog-psy subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: mind, consciousness, mind/body problem, language, Zombies, Turing Test, functionalism, feeling, other minds problem, qualia, language, categorization, Chomsky, Fodor, symbol grounding, telekinesis, telepathy, dualism, epiphenomenalism abstract: The mind/body problem is the feeling/function problem: How and why do feeling systems feel? The problem is not just "hard" but insoluble (unless one is ready to resort to telekinetic dualism). Fortunately, the "easy" problems of cognitive science (such as the how and why of categorization and language) are not insoluble. Five books (by Damasio, Edelman/Tononi, McGinn, Tomasello and Fodor) are reviewed in this context. date: 2001 date_type: published publication: The Sciences volume: 41 publisher: New York Academy of Sciences pagerange: 36-42 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Cangelosi, A. & Harnad, S. (2000) The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories. Evolution of Communication (Special Issue on Grounding) http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.language.html Chalmers, D. (1995) Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/facing.html Damasio, A.R. (1994) Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Avon Books. Chomsky, N. (1959) A Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Language 35(1): 26-58 http:// cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/11/48/ Fodor, J. A. (1975) The language of thought. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Fodor, J. A. (1985) Precis of The Modularity of Mind. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 8:1-42. Harnad, S. (1987) The induction and representation of categories. In: Harnad, S. (ed.) (1987) Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad87.categorization.html Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D 42: 335-346. [Reprinted in Hungarian Translation as "A Szimbolum-Lehorgonyzas Problemaja." Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle XLVIII-XLIX (32-33) 5-6: 365-383.] http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.sgproblem.html Harnad, S. (1996) The Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis In Velichkovsky B & Rumbaugh, D. (Eds.) Communicating Meaning: Evolution and Development of Language. NJ: Erlbaum: pp 27-44. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad96.word.origin.html Harnad, S. (2000) Correlation Versus Causality: How/Why the Mind/Body Problem Is Hard. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7(4): 54-61. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.mind.humphrey.html Harnad, S. (2000) Minds, Machines, and Turing: The Indistinguishability of Indistinguishables. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4): 425-445. (special issue on "Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence") http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.turing.html Tomasello, M., Kruger, A. C. & Ratner, H. H. (1993) Cultural learning. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 16:495-552. citation: Harnad, Stevan (2001) Explaining the Mind: Problems, Problems. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/1623/1/bookrev.htm