creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
creators_id: 63
type: other
datestamp: 2006-05-07
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:24
metadata_visibility: show
title: Descartes' baby, the soul and art
ispublished: unpub
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: consciousness, feeling, soul, mind/body problem, art, Turing Test, development, representation
note: Review of Paul Bloom's "Descartes' Baby" (Basic Books: 2004)
abstract: The notion of an immaterial, immortal "soul" is just a vague telekinetic theory to fill an unfillable explanatory gap in our understanding of the causal role of feelings.
date: 2006-05
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (2006) Descartes' baby, the soul and art.     (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4879/1/descartes-baby.html