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.…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
If we want to speculate about whether an A.I. system could be conscious, we first need to specify which type of consciousness we mean. There is more than one type,…
I wanted one of my first posts to be about the Chinese Room thought experiment, as it combines my interests in language, A.I., and consciousness. In this post, I'll lay…
