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…
In this post, I'll review Chapter 2 of Schneider's book Artificial You. The previous review post is here. The Problem of AI Consciousness In Chapter 2, Schneider introduces what she…
I've recently started reading Susan Schneider's new book Artificial You, and have decided to write about it as I go. The subtitle is "AI and the Future of Your Mind,"…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
I found that Keith Frankish's paper Quining Diet Qualia (PDF warning) was very helpful for understanding the Illusionist research program. In the paper, he lays out a few conceptions of…
