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Consciousness, Collapse, and MWI

Consciousness, Collapse, and MWI

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:April 6, 2021
  • Post category:consciousness/nonduality/philosophy/physics

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…

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Aversions to Idealism

Aversions to Idealism

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:February 1, 2020
  • Post category:consciousness/philosophy of mind/physics/Uncategorized

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…

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Consciousness and A.I.

Consciousness and A.I.

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:January 29, 2020
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy of mind

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…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 31, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/language/philosophy of mind

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…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 9, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

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…

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Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II

Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 3, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy of mind

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…

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Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I

Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 29, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy of mind

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,"…

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The Mindless Hypothesis

The Mindless Hypothesis

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 23, 2019
  • Post category:consciousness/language/philosophy/philosophy of 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…

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Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

Alex Byrne and Skepticism About the External World

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

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…

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Machines and Understanding

Machines and Understanding

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 7, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

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,…

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