Scholarpedia attempt
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anhinga_anhingaEugene Izhikevich is trying to create Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia, using the same MediaWiki software which powers Wikipedia. Its first project is an attempt to create Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience.
With his energy, and given the commitments of a number of well-known authors to be responsible for the articles, the chances of success seem reasonably high. Meanwhile, a preliminary version of his book, "Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting", to be published by the MIT Press this summer, can be downloaded from here (14MB):
http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/publications/index.htm
With his energy, and given the commitments of a number of well-known authors to be responsible for the articles, the chances of success seem reasonably high. Meanwhile, a preliminary version of his book, "Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting", to be published by the MIT Press this summer, can be downloaded from here (14MB):
http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich/publications/index.htm
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Date: 2006-03-27 04:14 am (UTC)Here is a link to a similar effort in philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
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Date: 2006-03-27 04:37 am (UTC)It's still very nice, in my opinion, that Wikipedia exists. For example, Wikipedia has an article on David Chalmers, while Stanford Encyclopedia does not even have plans to have such an entry, although it is more than 10 years old.
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 05:12 am (UTC)Другое дело, что я пока не нашел у них ни одной записи, посвященной ныне живущему человеку... Что "несколько неудобно" даже в философии, не говоря уж о более динамичных областях...
:-p ;-)
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:40 am (UTC)В какой, не напомнишь?? :-) в австралийской?
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 05:46 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
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Date: 2006-03-27 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 06:20 am (UTC)"4) Property dualism asserts that when matter is organized in the appropriate way (i.e. in the way that living human bodies are organized), mental properties emerge. Hence, it is a sub-branch of emergent materialism. [7] These emergent properties have an independent ontological status and cannot be reduced to, or explained in terms of, the physical substrate from which they emerge. This position is espoused by David Chalmers and has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years.[25]"
Я, впрочем, думаю, что правильное решение симметричное, а не Чалмерсовское, возможно в духе
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind#Interaction_dualism
но, может быть, и более изощренное...
Но методология, в любом случае, должна быть Чалмеровская --- то есть, аксиоматика, а не редуктивные определения...
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Date: 2006-03-28 06:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-28 06:53 am (UTC)как с точки зрения естественного отбора, так и с точки зрения интеллигентного дизайна, невозможно понять, зачем нужна такая сложная и красивая штука, как сознание, если она не влияет на физическую реальность...
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Date: 2006-03-28 07:23 pm (UTC)http://people.brandeis.edu/~rind/calendar.html
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/philosophy/news.cfm
"The Matrix as Metaphysics" by David Chalmers
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center, Clark University
Are we living in a Matrix? And if so, is our perception of the external world illusory? Many people, including philosophers from Descartes to Morpheus, say yes: if we're in a Matrix, then the ordinary objects that we seem to see don't exist, and we're radically deluded. I say no: even if we're in a Matrix, ordinary objects still exist, and most of our beliefs about the external world are correct. Instead, we can see the Matrix hypothesis as a metaphysical hypothesis about the underlying nature of our world.
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Date: 2006-03-28 08:00 pm (UTC)а в наши края он не направляется? (хорошие, однако, у вас края...привлекают учёных мужей)
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Date: 2006-03-28 08:05 pm (UTC)http://fragments.consc.net/djc/2006/03/road_trip.html
но, вообще-то, у вас нет недостатка в ученых мужах :-)
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Date: 2006-03-27 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 05:34 am (UTC)The first version of the article on Socrates in Wikipedia appeared 8 months after the beginning of Wikipedia, in 2001.
The comparision of the current versions of these articles also shows very clearly that one does not subsume another. I think this example confirms my impression that we need co-existence of different types of Encyclopedias...
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Date: 2024-10-29 12:46 pm (UTC)