Letting Pass - by Eric Schwitzgebel - The Splintered Mind
For two months we kept the dog run, as if she might come back.| eschwitz.substack.com
For two months we kept the dog run, as if she might come back.| eschwitz.substack.com
You know (I hope!) that you are conscious.| eschwitz.substack.com
only 0.36% of Bachelor's recipients are philosophy majors, and 22% of all philosophy BAs are awarded by just 20 universities| The Splintered Mind
Susan Schneider, David Sahner, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Mark Bailey, and I have just posted a circulating white paper “Is AI Conscious?| The Splintered Mind
This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI consciousness.| The Splintered Mind
Why Philosophy? has published a brief interview of me on the nature and practice of philosophy.| The Splintered Mind
Every summer, I post a prestige ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on major awards nominations and “best of” anthology selections in the previous ten years.| The Splintered Mind
Philosopher Dan Dennett's digital replica was sometimes arguably truer to the overall gist of his corpus than Dennett himself was at the end of his life.| The Splintered Mind
Tenuous science will bend to social motivations; we will come to think we know, even if we don't| The Splintered Mind
... but what explains the change?| The Splintered Mind
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.| The Splintered Mind
I have a new paper in draft, this time with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. We critique three recent books that address the moral standing of non-human animals and AI systems: Jonathan Birch's The Edge of Sentience, Jeff Sebo's The Moral Circle, and Webb Keane's| The Splintered Mind
I propose that we define "Artificial Intelligence" in the obvious way.| The Splintered Mind
if consciousness requires autopoietic self-maintenance and self-construction, standard AI systems could be designed accordingly| The Splintered Mind
Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent awards nominations and "best of" placements over the previous ten years.| The Splintered Mind
Why we shouldn't expect things to be boringly easy for even the most amazingly advanced superintelligences| The Splintered Mind
I'm traveling and not able to focus on my blog, so this week I thought I'd just share a section of my 2015 paper with Mara Garza defending the rights of at least some hypothetical future AI systems.| The Splintered Mind
Is it better to create a quadrillion happy insects or a million happy people?| The Splintered Mind
Reliance on introspection, causal confounds, narrow evidence base| The Splintered Mind
plus a demonstration of the first 100% scientifically valid moralometer in action| eschwitz.substack.com
reflections on the philosophy of psychology, broadly construed. Click to read The Splintered Mind, by Eric Schwitzgebel, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| eschwitz.substack.com
Last week, I posted a list of the 376 most-cited contemporary authors (born 1900 or later) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.| eschwitz.substack.com
as a measure of influence in mainstream Anglophone philosophy| eschwitz.substack.com
