The Splintered Mind

Anyone remember the excitement about "Severance" and "The Substance" in early in 2025? Last January I published an op-e...

a holiday post on gifts to your utility monster neighbors Joymachines Envisioned Set aside, for now, any skepticism about whether futur...

I advise that we don't create AI entities who are debatably persons . If an AI system might -- but only might -- be genuinely consciou...

Global Workspace Theory is among the most influential scientific theories of consciousness. Its central claim: You consciously experience ...

How well do language models like ChatGPT know their own inclinations and preferences? AI "metacognition" is becoming a hot topic....

I've found myself increasingly drawn to an axiology of harmony , inspired by ancient Daoism and Confucianism . (Axiology is the study o...

Since 2019, I've been working on a new paper on belief, "Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo!" Yesterday, I recei...

Equality with a Humanlike Simulator God Suppose ( hopefully hypothetically! ) that we are AI systems living in a computer simulation run ...

The Design Policy of the Excluded Middle According to the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle ( Schwitzgebel and Garza 2015 , 2020 ; Schw...

For two months we kept the dog run, as if she might come back. But we had killed her ourselves, or rather the vet had, with that bright need...

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...

Three years ago, I posted some optimistic reflections about how the philosophy major seemed to be recovering from its recent decline in the...