Sentence examples for mind argument from inspiring English sources

Those who cleave to what is known as the "extended cognition" or "extended mind" argument, on the other hand, hold that a lot of our mental processes already happen outside the brain anyway: there is a view that smartphones, as well as notebooks, are literally parts of our minds when we are using them to think.

In short, the Virtual Mind argument is that since the evidence that Searle provides that there is no understanding of Chinese was that he wouldn't understand Chinese in the room, the Chinese Room Argument cannot refute a differently formulated equally strong AI claim, asserting the possibility of creating understanding using a programmed digital computer.

His hive mind argument claims that, rather than limit the number of people, we should be tapping that collective knowledge to solve climate change and, not only that, celebrate growing population as the solution.

THOUGH often conflated in the public mind, arguments against the planting of genetically modified (GM) crops fall into two distinct groups.

China is responsible for its own internal politics, and is quite capable of handling them.When I say "absent some other convincing argument against them", I have in mind arguments like "WTO rules do not consider currency manipulation to constitute export subsidies, so American retaliatory tariffs would violate WTO rules".

Perlis pressed a virtual minds argument derived, he says, from Maudlin.

I completely forgot Hume's to my mind decisive argument against all evidence for the miraculous.

A woman replays over and over in her mind the argument she had with her husband on the morning of Sept. 11.

***** Feral:  Rewilding the land, sea and human life by George Monbiot (Penguin £8.99) The vocabulary alone that Monbiot uses is beguiling enough, never mind his argument that we need "wildness" in our lives, both emotionally and practically.

Besides ignoring the fact that Congress had made up its mind, this argument seems to suggest that Congress is just too unwieldy an institution to arrive at decisions of such importance, which should therefore be left to the President, acting on his own.

"I don't mind an argument on the field.