Azamat wrote:
> Ian,
> The referential model of meaning had its use when semantics was in the stage
> of conception. Today, the extensional models are largely irrelevant to the
> challenges of the complex world.
>
> There is a hot topic in neuroscience called "mind reading" with fMRI, aiming
> to use neuroimaging techniques to read the brain activation patterns by
> detecting blood flow in the brain areas. Recently, it was widely published
> that the technique of neural information processing affords reading your
> thoughts and intentions by means of scanners:
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/31/60minutes/main4694713_page2.shtml.
> Such a poor alchemy comes from two main reasons: bad ontology and defective
> semantics.
> (01)
have you read any articles published by Just or colleagues in
peer-reviewed scientific journals before puffing up your
pseudoontological bubbles? if you're making such strong judgements
based on superficial news in cbs, it's far from a scientific approach. (02)
vQ (03)
> Good ontology posits that there are at least three worlds: the physical
> world of material entities (as living organisms with brain processes); the
> mental world of experiences as thought processes; the meaningful world of
> the thought contents (institutions, languages, works of arts, social norms,
> laws, etc.). Semantically, we have two related but distinct realms here, the
> universe of extension and denotation and reference (res extensa) and the
> universe of intension and connotation. Neglecting or mixing the worlds, as
> brain processes with cognitive operations as thought experience (subjective
> meaning, res cogitans), and the thought processes with the thought's
> contents (objective meanings), can lead you to all sorts of pseudoscience
> and fictitious creations, as Just's "thought identification technology",
> just exciting for national security agencies and laymen.
> (04)
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