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More or Less Conscious

More or Less Conscious

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 26, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/neuroscience/philosophy of mind

I posted about Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and how it strongly violates some of our intuitions about things that are conscious, and whether we can try to formalize those intuitions.…

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Intuitions and Integrated Information Theory

Intuitions and Integrated Information Theory

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 26, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/neuroscience/philosophy of mind

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a theory that says consciousness is a property of systems with integrated information, and that we can (in theory) measure how much consciousness a system…

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Distinguishing Between Strong A.I. and Superintelligent A.I.

Distinguishing Between Strong A.I. and Superintelligent A.I.

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 23, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness

I think John Searle is largely right in his skepticism about strong A.I. -- as I describe here, here, and here in the context of the Chinese Room argument --…

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Narrowing the Choice to Fundamental Consciousness or Illusionism

Narrowing the Choice to Fundamental Consciousness or Illusionism

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 22, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/neuroscience/philosophy of mind

Any neuroscientific explanation of consciousness is going to run up against the hard problem of consciousness. Take Global Workspace theories for example. Here is one such version by Dehaene and…

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Dennett’s Contradiction on Zombies

Dennett’s Contradiction on Zombies

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 22, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind

Has Daniel Dennett ever directly addressed this apparent contradiction in his views? He believes that people who think philosophical zombies are conceivable are mistaken. See, for example, his discussion of…

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A Coherent Illusionism? Adding Cosmopsychism

A Coherent Illusionism? Adding Cosmopsychism

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 21, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind

In this post, I want to combine two things that I recently wrote about: I wrote that one of the challenges facing illusionist views of consciousness is the experiencer problem:…

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Illusionism and Denying the Data

Illusionism and Denying the Data

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 20, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind

I came across this Twitter thread from earlier this Summer, after I had read Keith Frankish's article on Illusionism. Follow the thread down from here: https://twitter.com/murraygabriel/status/1148786759553019904 It reminded me that…

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Panpsychism, Illusionism, Mysterianism

Panpsychism, Illusionism, Mysterianism

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 20, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind/physics

Modern science struggles to make sense of consciousness. What would a coherent materialist / physicalist model of phenomenal consciousness look like? How can our current scientific methods explain how we…

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Blindsight and Qualia

Blindsight and Qualia

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 15, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind

The phenomenon of blindsight is astonishing, and seems to have major implications for consciousness. In this post, I'll base a lot of the discusion on the book Blindsight and the…

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The Chinese Room: Other Minds Reply

The Chinese Room: Other Minds Reply

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:August 14, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness

I've written about the Chinese Room a couple of times now. In an initial post, I gave a basic overview and discussed the Systems Reply. In a follow-up, I talked…

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