The Splintered Mind

Here's an argument that I'm sure will give my philosopher of physics collaborator Jacob Barandes the fits. The conclusion will be ...

My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don'...

Friends and readers: I have cancer. The type of cancer is not yet fully confirmed, but all signs point toward kidney cancer that has spr...

[Content warning: suicide] This will be a morbid post; forgive me. It will be hard to write this well. I will write it badly. You ar...

Biological naturalism about consciousness will, I predict, soon be hot. As AI systems start to look more and more like conscious or sentie...

I have argued that if we someday create AI persons -- that is, AI systems with genuinely rich conscious experiences, fully deserving of equ...

In July, I began circulating a draft of my next book, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights . I set it aside for a couple of months to get som...

Over almost a decade, starting in 2007, I conducted a series of empirical studies (mostly collaboratively with Joshua Rust ) on the moral be...

Is the world morally ordered ? Do good things come to those who act well and bad things to those who act badly? Do the virtuous thrive and t...

Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day ! A summary of my 2024 book, The Weirdness of the World , by the aut...

Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent award nominations and "bes...

AI and Consciousness, hot off the press at Cambridge University Press and free online until Aug 26! Summary: Our most advanced AI systems ...

Aloha from Kauai! Here's another snail for your enjoyment. Since I'm still on vacation, here’s a repost with edits from 2011 a...