Showing posts with label philosophy of mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy of mind. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Two Dimensionalism about Other Minds, and Its Implications for Brain Organoids and Robots

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You know (I hope!) that you are conscious. How do you know that other people are conscious too? This is the classic " problem of ot...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2025

New Book in Draft: AI and Consciousness

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This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI consciousness. We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to ...
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Friday, September 05, 2025

Are Weird Aliens Conscious? Three Arguments (Two of Which Fail)

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Most scientists and philosophers of mind accept some version of what I'll call "substrate flexibility" (alternatively "su...
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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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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 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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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Elisabeth of Bohemia 1, Descartes 0

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I'm loving reading the 1643 correspondence between Elisabeth of Bohemia and Descartes! I'm embarrassed to confess that I hadn'...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

Pierre Menard, Author of My ChatGPT Plagiarized Essay

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If I use autocomplete to help me write my email, the email is -- we ordinarily think -- still written by me.  If I ask ChatGPT to generate a...
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