I recently finished Carlo Rovelli's most recent book, Helgoland, and greatly enjoyed it. The core of the book is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, which he has helped…
I recently read Beyond Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman. It's a book that kept popping up in recent years so I finally checked it out from the public…
I have been surprised to occasionally see some philosophers on Twitter denying that there is such a thing as non-conceptual experience -- what I might like to call "raw" experience.…
I recently finished Brian Cantwell Smith's excellent book The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment. It's a bit different from other recent popular books on AI, as it is…
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…
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…
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…
I was reading John Heil's (fairly brief) discussion of idealism in his philosophy of mind book. It's an interesting read because he spends most of the time saying that the…
I am reading Stuart Russell's new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, and highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past few years…
In Chapter 4 of the book, Schneider discusses possible tests of consciousness for artificial agents. I'll briefly summarize the tests here and add a few comments: The AI Consciousness Test…
