The Splintered Mind

It's a philosophical truism that human conscious experience is unified: If you're at a bar, hearing music, tasting beer, and feeling...

Most AI systems can be precisely copied. Suppose this is also true of future conscious AI persons, if any exist. Backup and fissioning sho...

A philosophical discussion arc is a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, titles, and keywords...

Philosophy should be among the most diverse of the academic disciplines. Instead, it is among the least diverse. Philosophical reflecti...

Let's define a discussion arc in philosophy as a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, tit...

Our understanding of the nature of consciousness derives mainly from our understanding of the nature of consciousness in our favorite animal...

Moral diversity, Olivia Bailey and Thi Nguyen say (in a draft paper shared with Myisha Cherry's Emotion and Society Lab ), is valuable...

by Kendra Chilson and Eric Schwitzgebel Our main idea, condensed to 1000 words: On a linear model of intelligence , entities can be ro...

Hint: no. Below are three sections from Chapter Eight of my manuscript in draft, AI and Consciousness , fresh new version available toda...

Matthias Michel is among the sharpest critics of the methods of consciousness science. His forthcoming paper, " Consciousness Doesn...