The Splintered Mind

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. [from Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird ] ...

I don't want to read your AI-generated email. Lots of reasons why, but here's the core of it: I want the text to reflect your thou...

Here . Comments welcomed, hoped for, treasured. Over the past couple years I've been working on a pair of books, AI and Consciousness...

In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers...

Available here . Abstract: Future AI persons might both (1.) deserve moral consideration and rights fully equal with natural human pers...

Biological naturalists (e.g., Godfrey-Smith , Block , Searle , Seth ) suggest that computers aren't made of the right kind of stuff to ...

... but collectively, we haven't yet figured out how. Yet! Helen De Cruz and the 2+1 Experiment The inspired advocacy of the...

Liberals about AI consciousness hold that we might soon (if we haven't already) create genuinely conscious AI systems. Conservatives ...

Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now...

Part Two of a two-part series by Grace Helton (guest blogger) [Joan Miro, The Garden, 1925; image source ] In the first part of this 2-...