Most scientists and philosophers of mind accept some version of what I'll call "substrate flexibility" (alternatively "substrate independence" or "multiple realizability") about mental states, including consciousness. Consciousness is substrate flexible if it can be instantiated in different types of physical system -- for example in a squishy neurons like ours, in the silicon chips of a futuristic robot, or in some weird alien architecture, carbon based or not.| The Splintered Mind
The Pale Criminal? In Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, the chapter titled “Of the Pale Criminal” presents one of the most enigmatic and psychologically rich parables in all of his Continue Reading| The Stand Up Philosophers
By a universal theory of consciousness, I mean a theory that would apply not just to humans but to all non-human animals, all possible AI systems, and all possible forms of alien life. It would be lovely to have such a theory! But we're not at all close.| The Splintered Mind
Types and Degrees of Indistinguishability| schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com
by Jeremy Pober and Eric Schwitzgebel| The Splintered Mind
As many of my regular readers know, I’m a mystic, a Christian mystic, I’m not an orthodox believer, I’ve never been one for the crowd or the mob. I’ve always Continue Reading| The Stand Up Philosophers
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The dialogue continues! Responding to Richard Gipps's post contra aftab contra gipps contra seth| A Myth in Creation
“without a constant misuse of language, there cannot be any discovery,| A Myth in Creation
Less than a year after the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett put out his latest collection of quality ruminations on his life, titled I've Been Thinking (2023), he died of interstitial lung disease in a bed at Maine Medical Center in Portland on April 19, 2024. He surely had an intimation of his nearing demise,…| Blog of the APA
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Awais Aftab's personal blog. Discussions of philosophy & psychiatry. Historically a repository of poetic-literary-philosophical fragments.| awaisaftab.blogspot.com
Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. As the MIT Technology Review puts| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
