Nietzsche and the machines by Sebastian Sunday Greve in The Philosopher’s Magazine 4 June 2021
We need to think about how we and advanced AI are going to live together. The thrust of Greve’s...
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Category: PHILOSOPHY ARTICLES
Internal affairs by Caroline Williams in New Scientist 9 July 2022
Inner speech and consciousness are not the same thing. We are (almost) all familiar with the voice...
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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Virtual reality is as real as physical reality, but just different by Richard Webb interviewing David Chalmers in New Scientist 29 January 2022
Reality is reality is reality. The most important point in Chalmers’ new book is that what we...
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AI for all by Gabriela Ramos in New Scientist 4 December 2021
UNESCO’s international agreement on AI ethics looks great, but is it really? 193 countries have...
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Legal Researchers Weigh in on How Future Laws Should Deal With The Rise of The Sexbots by David Neild on TechPost & Science 14 August
Blending AI with ethics will be a real tough nut. There is always a small number of really...
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A machine that thinks like us by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 17 April 2021
The meaning of consciousness continues to confuse people. Apparently, researchers have developed a...
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Machine in the ghost by Ed Simon in Aeon 5 February 2021
What price religion when machines have consciousness? It turns out that the answer may not be...
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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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Has religion been good or bad for humanity by Harvey Whitehouse? in NewScientist 6 April 2019
It rather depends on how you define good and bad. Whitehouse asks whether religion has played an...
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Neurohacking robots blur what it means to be human by John Thornhill in the FT 11 July 2017
Are robots becoming too human? This worthwhile article considers what is fast becoming the major...
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Teaching robots right from wrong by Simon Parkin in The Economist 1843 June/July 2017
Parkin’s well-written article describes several methods by which different AI researchers...
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