The Splintered Mind

reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

Monday, July 07, 2025

The Emotional Alignment Design Policy

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New paper in draft! In 2015, Mara Garza and I briefly proposed what we called the Emotional Alignment Design Policy -- the idea that AI...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Three Epistemic Problems for Any Universal Theory of Consciousness

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By a universal theory of consciousness , I mean a theory that would apply not just to humans but to all non-human animals, all possible AI s...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

The Conceptual and Methodological Challenges of Developing a Moralometer

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In the history of Earth, no one -- not even Mike Furr -- as far as I'm aware, has ever attempted to construct a serious, scientific mea...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Does the Arc of History Bend Toward Justice? Outline of an Empirical Test

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Overall, on average, do societies improve morally over time? If maybe not in actual behavior, at least in expressed attitudes about right v...
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Friday, June 06, 2025

Types and Degrees of Turing Indistinguishability; Thinking and Consciousness

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Types and Degrees of Indistinguishability The Turing test (introduced by Alan Turing in a 1950 article ) treats linguistic indistinguisha...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

New Paper in Draft: Against Designing "Safe" and "Aligned" AI Persons (Even If They're Happy)

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Opening teaser: 1. A Beautifully Happy AI Servant. It's difficult not to adore Klara, the charmingly submissive and well-intention...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philosophy: Good Practices Guide

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Strange that it need be said, but yes, diversity, equity, and inclusion are good things. I can understand some of the backlash against effo...
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Friday, May 23, 2025

Ten Purportedly Essential Features of Consciousness

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The Features Take a moment to introspect. Examine a few of your conscious experiences. What features do they share -- and might these fe...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

The Awesomeness of Bad Art

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I love bad art. Gather some friends and create some bad music . Cruise in a car covered with graffiti doodles . Hand a five-year-old cra...
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Thursday, May 08, 2025

Everything Is Sandcastles

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Yesterday, Rivka Weinberg spoke at UCR from her forthcoming book, The Meaning of It All, on how time erodes meaning. As is often noted, i...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

When Is a Theory Superficial?

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by Jeremy Pober and Eric Schwitzgebel Twelve years ago, one of us (ES) distinguished two kinds of theories: superficial and deep. Nearly ...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

People with Unusual, Minority, Culturally Atypical, or Historically Underrepresented Experiences and Worldviews Should be Overrepresented in Philosophy, Rather than Underrepresented

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Saturday's post finding that only 16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women brought out the misogynist bros on Twitter, but...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women

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In some ways, the gender situation has been improving in philosophy. Women now constitute about 40% of graduating majors in philosophy in ...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Harmonizing with the Dao: Sketch of an Evaluative Framework

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Increasingly, I find myself drawn to an ethics of harmonizing with the Dao . Invoking "the Dao" might sound mystical, non-Wester...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2025

New Paper in Draft: Superficialism about Belief, and How We Will Decide That Robots Believe

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Comments welcome, as always, by email, as comments on this blog post, or through social media. This is intended as a submission to a specia...
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