Can lab-grown brains become conscious by Sara Reardon in Nature 27 October 2020
Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...
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THE SENTIENT ROBOT
This site is for everyone interested in two of today's big topics, consciousness and artificial intelligence. It explores whether consciousness can be instantiated in a robot or artificial intelligence entity. Can artificial intelligence become self aware? Is artificial consciousness possible? It considers if robots could have emotions or even feelings. Could there be conscious AI or conscious robots? The site is a go-to, constantly updated repository of summaries and synopses of books, articles, papers, media and events that touch on the human properties of sentience and self awareness. The site explores whether such features can be uploaded into AI and robots.
FEATURED POSTS
Wine and bottles in The Economist 17 October 2020
The wine trade confirms that thought trumps language. There are those who say that language is the...
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Cognition all the way down by Michael Levin and Daniel Dennett at aeon.co 13 October 2020
Agency is on a continuum of evolutionary outcomes. Agency is not a distinct category separated...
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TOPIC CATEGORIES
AI
Ex-antics in The Economist 10 October 2020
Tech antitrust action is a slow-burning fuse. America’s Department of Justice is taking Google to...
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Animal languages by Eva Meijer 2016
Dr Doolittle lives again. This is a truly wide-ranging canter through the ways in which many types...
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Match and mix in The Economist 3 October 2020
Human beings are a lot more diverse than you first thought. It turns out that some hybrid species...
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Concepts in a Probabilistic Language of Thought by Noah D. Goodman et al, 14 June 2014
An elegant explanation of language and thought and how they relate to each other. This is the sort...
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious by Sara Reardon in Nature 27 October 2020
Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...
Read MorePHILOSOPHY
Wine and bottles in The Economist 17 October 2020
The wine trade confirms that thought trumps language. There are those who say that language is the...
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