consciousness in as different a substrate as computer chips... well, that's a complicated and uncertain issue, on which Jeremy and I diverge in the penultimate section of the paper.
Full draft here:
https://t.co/qZiFGMP6rC
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New paper in draft with @JPober: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness
Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now a hot topic in the metaphysics of mind. 1/n
conscious organisms employ substrates different from our own, we should allow that conscious is "substrate flexible": It does not depend on having our particular substrate. Whether we can generalize from such biological substrate flexibility to the possibility of 5/N
AI and the Degradation of the Human Capacity for Friendship (guest post by Grace Helton)
Part Two of a two-part series
by Grace Helton (guest blogger)
https://t.co/Co4C9IFJQA
Superhuman Moral Standing (for possible future entities)
a blog post suggesting three possible routes:
* having much more of what matters
* having something that matters far beyond our comprehension
* not being individuatable into discrete entities like us
[link in comments]
You think you know what belief is? No! At best you have an accidentally true opinion, unless you've read @jontweetshere's and my edited collection, The Nature of Belief, hot off the press at OUP. (Also available open access at OUP's website.)
Could "do your thing" -- harmoniously with the world and reflecting your specific predilections and talents -- serve as a general (Daoist-inspired) ethical motto?
In this blog post, I argue yes, but not in a totalizing way.
https://t.co/er0c88PN4n
@Inframethod I know that my friends are conscious! Folk psychology and expert theory warrant a consensus on this point. I think it’s also eminently reasonable to think virtually all adult mammals and birds are.
Last week I submitted my latest book manuscript to Cambridge (for their "Element" series of books about 100 pages long): AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview -- because you haven't heard nearly enough about AI and consciousness recently, of course! ;-)
Maybe you'll 1/3