Closing Overview of Categorization, Communication and Cognition (2025)

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Closing Overview of Categorization, Communication and Cognition (2025)

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11c. Bekoff, M., & Harnad, S. (2015). Doing the Right Thing

 11c. Bekoff, M., & Harnad, S. (2015). Doing the Right Thing

Reading: Bekoff, M., & Harnad, S. (2015). Doing the Right Thing: An Interview With Stevan Harnad. Psychology Today

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11b. Harnad, S (2016) Animal sentience: The other-minds problem

 11b. Harnad, S (2016) Animal sentience: The other-minds problem

Reading: Harnad, S (2016) Animal sentience: The other-minds problem. Animal Sentience 1(1)

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11a. Key, Brian (2016) Why fish do not feel pain

 11a. Key, Brian (2016) Why fish do not feel pain

Consciousness means sentience which means the capacity to feel. We are not the only species that feels: Does it matter?

Reading: Key, Brian (2016) Why fish do not feel pain. Animal Sentience 3(1) (read the abstracts of some of the commentaries too)

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10c. Harnad, S. (2012) Alan Turing and the "hard" and "easy" problem of cognition: doing and feeling

 10c. Harnad, S. (2012) Alan Turing and the "hard" and "easy" problem of cognition: doing and feeling

Reading: Harnad, S. (2012) Alan Turing and the "hard" and "easy" problem of cognition: doing and feeling. [in special issue: Turing Year 2012] Turing100: Essays in Honour of Centenary Turing Year 2012, Summer Issue

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10b. Harnad, S. (unpublished) On Dennett on Consciousness: The Mind/Body Problem is the Feeling/Function Problem

 10b. Harnad, S. (unpublished) On Dennett on Consciousness: The Mind/Body Problem is the Feeling/Function Problem

Reading: Harnad, S. (unpublished) On Dennett on Consciousness: The Mind/Body Problem is the Feeling/Function Problem.

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10a. Dennett, D. (unpublished) The fantasy of first-person science

 10a. Dennett, D. (unpublished) The fantasy of first-person science

Once we can pass the Turing test -- because we can generate and explain everything that cognizers are able to do -- will we have explained all there is to explain about the mind? Or will something still be left out?

Reading: Dennett, D. (unpublished) The fantasy of first-person science.

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