Mar 29: Claremont McKenna College, Athenaeum Lecture: Falling in Love with Machines
Mar 30: University of Washington, Seattle, brown bag discussion: Moral Reflection and Moral Behavior [probably closed to outsiders]
Mar 30: University of Washington, Seattle, brown bag discussion: The Demographics of Philosophy [probably closed to outsiders]
Mar 31: University of Puget Sound, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference keynote: Does Studying Ethics Make People More Ethical?
Apr 2 (remote): Northeastern University, Information Ethics Roundtable: Let's Hope We're Not Living in a Simulation
Apr 3: University of California, Office of the President (Oakland): Principles Governing Online Majors. [This one is definitely not public, but I welcome readers' thoughts about what University of California policy should be regarding the approval of online majors.]
Apr 5: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco), Society for the Philosophy of Animal Minds: The Mind of a Garden Snail, or What Is It to Have a Mind?
Apr 5: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco), Science Fiction and Philosophy Society: TBD, either Science Fiction as Philosophy or Science Fiction and Large Language Models.
Apr 6: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (San Francisco), Book Symposium on David Chalmers' Reality+: Let's Hope We're Not Living in a Simulation
Yes, that's nine presentations in nine days, on seven different topics. Perhaps I'm spreading myself a little thin!
This story-line-plot for your consideration presentation April 5...
ReplyDelete"In the beginning: Does humanity suffer (need energy) when hungry with hunger pains...
...6 million years of gathering foods has helped..."
"In the beginning: Does AI suffer (need energy) when there are...
...electrical shorts or inefficiencies in the systems they are processing..."
"That some AI"s may feel the heat of a tangent field attracting or repulsing them...
...to change...like everything in our cosmos...and thanks"
When 80 "spread to thin" is a reality...Good luck...