Ned Block

Silver Professor, Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and Center for Neural Science

[Ned Block @De_dicto]

New paper: Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? Free link until November 26th: https://t.co/On6pCoCxwU 1/

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@JacksonKernion @LedermanHarvey Jackson brief evidence?

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@explicanda @StanDehaene Does anyone know how you get translation to work?

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@StanDehaene @ylecun Thanks Stan, I’m looking forward to seeing these lectures

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Free link
https://t.co/ep2DJlziws

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Hurray for Stephan Pohl
https://t.co/JFh4CBJ8Om

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11 inches so far

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https://t.co/lLpLb43BY1

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@RealmLeaper @abakcus Thank you. That explains why the one on the right is harder to see

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@BriannaWu https://t.co/OOb13u96vc

[Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz]

https://t.co/fm47HxfA8U

[Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz]

Two Dimensionalism about Other Minds, and Its Implications for Brain Organoids and Robots
[link in thread]

Two-dimensionalism says that we're justified in attributing consciousness to others only when *both* their physiology and their functional/behavioral patterns are similar.

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@platobooktour This article is full hilarious idiocies by ou leader

[David Chalmers @davidchalmers42]

videos from the landmark NYU meeting on infant consciousness are now online!

with @LorinaNaci, @ghisdl, tim bayne, @De_dicto, @AnnaCiaunica, @SidKouider, @joel_frohlich, @smatthewliao, @onemorebrown, many more.

congrats @cpassosf for a great event!

https://t.co/KAccxpqsSU

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from Sally Kornbluth's letter to Trump: "...In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."

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@salr_nyc I don’t recall any student who looked like your picture

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biological realizers, or both, is crucial for assessing the prospects of consciousness in AI and less complex animals.

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@StuartHameroff We need to have a longer conversation than what we can do here