Browsing Philosophy by Subject "cognitive science"

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A Dynamic Account of the Structure of Concepts

Blouw, Peter (University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)

Concepts are widely agreed to be the basic constituents of thought. Amongst philosophers and psychologists, however, the question of how concepts are structured has been a longstanding problem and a locus of disagreement. ...
Explaining the Mind: The Embodied Cognition Challenge

Zhitnik, Anatoly (University of Waterloo, 2008-05-15)

This thesis looks at a relatively new line of research in Cognitive Science – embodied cognition. Its relation to the computational-representational paradigm, primarily symbolicism, is extensively discussed. It is argued ...
The Free Self: What Separates Us From Machines

Ross, Mitchell (University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)

Could a machine ever achieve consciousness? Will it ever make sense to hold a machine morally responsible? In this thesis, I argue that the architecture of SPAUN - the largest WIP functioning brain model currently in ...