The Splintered Mind

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

There's no shame in losing a contest for a long-form popular essay on AI consciousness to the eminent neuroscientist Anil Seth . Berggr...

I'm enjoying -- well, maybe enjoying isn't the right word -- Yudkowsky and Soares' If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies . I agree...

Each New Year's Day, I post a retrospect of the past year's writings. Here are the retrospects of 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 ,...

Anyone remember the excitement about "Severance" and "The Substance" in early in 2025? Last January I published an op-e...

a holiday post on gifts to your utility monster neighbors Joymachines Envisioned Set aside, for now, any skepticism about whether futur...

I advise that we don't create AI entities who are debatably persons . If an AI system might -- but only might -- be genuinely consciou...

Global Workspace Theory is among the most influential scientific theories of consciousness. Its central claim: You consciously experience ...

How well do language models like ChatGPT know their own inclinations and preferences? AI "metacognition" is becoming a hot topic....

I've found myself increasingly drawn to an axiology of harmony , inspired by ancient Daoism and Confucianism . (Axiology is the study o...

Since 2019, I've been working on a new paper on belief, "Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo!" Yesterday, I recei...