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Website title: Against Professional Philosophy | A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary

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In his essay “Philosophy Professionalized: How We Killed the Thing We Loved,” Robert Hanna defines “real philosophy” as follows: By real philosophy, [I] mean authentic, serious, synoptic, systematic reflection on the individual and collective human condition, and on the natural and social world in which human and other conscious animals live, move, and have their …

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(Medical Xpress, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Part A: Exposition 2.1 From Passive Reception to Active Inference 2.2 Mathematical Foundations: Bayesian Inference and the Brain 2.3Core Principles of Predictive Processing: The Brain as a Prediction Machine 2.4 Empirical Evidence for Bayesian and Predictive Processing 2.5 Applications to Cognitive Phenomena 2.6 Applica...

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(Hanna and Paans, 2020: p. 35; diagram created by Otto Paans) In a companion-piece essay to his essay “Running On Empty: Why Hasn’t Professional Academic Philosophy Produced Any Important Ideas in the Last 50 Years?,” namely, “How To Make Two Neglected Brilliant Ideas into Important or Even Revolutionary Ideas,” Robert Hanna identifies two of those …

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Spirals and Souls You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Radical Thinking: Spirals, Souls, and Immortality 1. From Spirals in Prehistorical Art, To a Projection of the Eternity of the …

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(Medical Xpress, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Part A: Exposition 2.1 From Passive Reception to Active Inference 2.2 Mathematical Foundations: Bayesian Inference and the Brain 2.3Core Principles of Predictive Processing: The Brain as a Prediction Machine 2.4 Empirical Evidence for Bayesian and Predictive Processing 2.5 Applications to Cognitive Phenomena 2.6 Applica...

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