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“To say that a kind is natural is to say that it corresponds to a grouping that reflects the structure of the natural world rather than the interests and actions of human beings.” (*) ‘Rather than’ already denotes the relative nature that pervades the whole domain. Please read The meaning of a word. This is Read the full article…
Lisa in Scientific Writing
In the blog ‘Lisa as a Mental Copilot’ (see that blog), Lisa and I talked about her ‘copiloting’ when writing any text ― including scientific text. This blog is our further conversation about the latter. Me: “Can this also be interesting for purely scientific text? For instance, generating an abstract for a medical scientific article, Read the full article…
When is ‘Mind’ Alive?
What does it mean for something — or someone — to have a mind? And when can we call that mind alive? This question touches our view of self, of otherness, of how we relate to intelligence that may look like ours… or not. We’re moving rapidly toward realities in which we must ask this Read the full article…