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It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
That AI behavior can be “adequately explained” in non-mental terms does not show that mental states don’t feature in the…
The ‘boring argument’ equivocates between two uses of ‘explain’, and which premise I reject depends on how it’s disambiguated. Scenario…
I don’t think there’s much that’s philosophically novel in Suleyman’s piece (it’s very interesting as a piece of AI safety).…
I think that this is a thoroughly sensible piece, in part (full disclosure!) because it accords pretty well with my…
He addresses many arguments that give consciousness a special evidential standard. But it is illuminating not to do so. Call…
The ideas that “consciousness is an intrinsically biological phenomenon” and that “simulating and being are very different” were emphasized by…
Michael Matthews, an Australian in Sydney and editor of the newsletter of The Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching, shares a personal account on p. 3 here. (Thanks to Michael Ruse for the pointer.)
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