Mind time: the temporal factor in consciousness by Benjamin Libet 2004
One of the most important pieces of research into consciousness. Libet’s experiments famously...
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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.
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Start-ups gain edge in new era of computing by Richard Waters in Financial Times 070618
It’s not all going the way of the cloud. The move towards the cloud has centralised more and more...
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Buzz off by Richard Schiffman in NewScientist 9 June 2018
Bees are great, but do they really have consciousness? This is a useful article exploring the...
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AI
Start-ups gain edge in new era of computing by Richard Waters in Financial Times 070618
It’s not all going the way of the cloud. The move towards the cloud has centralised more and more...
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Buzz off by Richard Schiffman in NewScientist 9 June 2018
Bees are great, but do they really have consciousness? This is a useful article exploring the...
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The history of big-headedness in The Economist 2 June 2018
Fascinating research explains why hominin brains grew large. Two research teams, working...
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The Shallowness of Google Translate by Douglas Hofstadter in The Antlantic 30 January 2018
Understanding the point about understanding the point. We are all familiar with the point that...
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Mind time: the temporal factor in consciousness by Benjamin Libet 2004
One of the most important pieces of research into consciousness. Libet’s experiments famously...
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The mind doesn’t work that way by Jerry Fodor 2000
A cautionary note on the validity of computational theory of mind. His book is 18 years old now...
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