Marshall Davis on Christian and Taoist Non-Duality
I haven't been a Christian since I was a teenager. I grew up in a non-denominational protestant family, but my parents were hippies and, when I was young, organized religion…
Transformative Experience and Skepticism
I previously posted about this discussion between Sean Carroll and LA Paul. It's very fascinating, and is basically about the difficulty of making choices when the choice that is made…
Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI
I recently finished Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, and I highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past 5-10 years…
Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III
Chapter 3 of Artificial You has three basic purposes: Explaining why AI might develop in such a way that superintelligent AIs are not conscious. Explaining that we might need to…
The Mindless Hypothesis
In the previous post, I talked about Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism about the Internal World (PDF). In that post, I focused on the first part of the paper, and in…
Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World
I recently read Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism About the Internal World (PDF warning), and in this post I want to focus on the first part of the paper, where he…
Machines and Understanding
This recent blog post by Thomas Dietterich has received much well-deserved attention. And while the title What does it mean for a machine to "understand"? sounds like a philosophical work,…
Infallibility, Inflation, and Explosion
In this very interesting discussion between Richard Brown, Keith Frankish, and Philip Goff, Frankish makes the point that the core of his illusionist view is the denial of a phenomenal…
Richard Brown and Keith Frankish on Illusionism
I'm glad I listened to this discussion between Richard Brown and Keith Frankish on Consciousness Live, as Brown seems to have many of the same questions about illusionism that I…
Is Determinism Compatible with Rationality?
I finished listening to this wide-ranging discussion between Justin Brierley and Alex O'Connor, which I had previously commented on here. Towards the end of the episode, they get into an…