Tuesday, July 07, 2026

New Book in Draft! Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights

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Here . Comments welcomed, hoped for, treasured. Over the past couple years I've been working on a pair of books, AI and Consciousness...
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Friday, July 03, 2026

Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism

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In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers...
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Thursday, June 25, 2026

New in Draft: Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI

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Available here . Abstract: Future AI persons might both (1.) deserve moral consideration and rights fully equal with natural human pers...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Do Computers Have the Wrong "Substrate" for Consciousness? Two Flavors of Biological Naturalism

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Biological naturalists (e.g., Godfrey-Smith , Block , Searle , Seth ) suggest that computers aren't made of the right kind of stuff to ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Online Conferences Should be Better than In-Person Conferences, Not Worse

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... but collectively, we haven't yet figured out how. Yet! Helen De Cruz and the 2+1 Experiment The inspired advocacy of the...
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Thursday, June 04, 2026

Herbie: A Near-Future Debatably Conscious AI Person

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Liberals about AI consciousness hold that we might soon (if we haven't already) create genuinely conscious AI systems. Conservatives ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2026

New Paper in Draft: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (with Jeremy Pober)

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Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now...
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Thursday, May 21, 2026

AI and the Degradation of the Human Capacity for Friendship (guest post by Grace Helton)

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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-...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

ChatGPT Is Not Your Friend (guest post by Grace Helton)

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Part One of a two-part series by  Grace Helton  (guest blogger) [Paul Klee, Angel Applicant, 1939; source ] Some people have come to interac...
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