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The quoted sentence is sloppy. It should have read something like “. . . but controlling one that is conditioned…
Small clarification, as I realize what I said about the Chinese Room could be misunderstood: Searle *in fact* thinks intentionality…
Hi David, I read your comment downstream, but I thought my question was more relevant to your post here, so…
If I program a machine to emit the string “I have rights and welfare”, then sure, it doesn’t have them,…
David, I must be misunderstanding: That you can program a machine to act like it has rights, and has welfare,…
We have a complete understanding of the microphysics of the constituents of human brains at the appropriate energy scales (nonrelativistic…
His former colleague Neil Feit kindly shared it with me:
You can start reading from paragraph 52 onwards for a case study in how not to handle a public relations crisis because of a faculty member’s lawful, but controversial, speech. Every SUNY official mentioned behaved terribly, and there is no question they violated Professor Kershnar’s First Amendment and academic freedom rights. I hope a court will award appropriate damages, so that other administrators might learn something.
“If an entity is the sort of thing that can believe it has rights and subjective welfare, that sounds cognitively…