The Splintered Mind

Suppose that we someday create artificially intelligent systems (AIs) who are capable of genuine consciousness, real joy and real suffering....

I have a new paper in draft: "Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo!" Check it out here . As always, objections, comment...

[This post draws on ideas developed in collaboration with psychologist Jessie Sun .] If we want to study morality scientifically, we should ...

According to the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle, as Mara Garza and I have articulated it ( here and here ), we ought to avoid creat...

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

Some scientists think it's quite possible we will soon find evidence of microbial life in the Solar System, if not on Mars, then maybe...

[This post draws on ideas developed in collaboration with psychologist Jessie Sun .] So you want to build a moralometer -- that is, a dev...

Would a neuron-for-neuron silicon isomorph of you have conscious experiences? Or is there something special about the biology of neurons, s...