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May 11
RT @PeterSjostedtH: A playfully-abstract commendation for Arthur Lanyon’s forthcoming exhibition at Anima Mundi gallery, St Ives: https://t…
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May 11
RT @PeterSjostedtH: Before the painting NN by Arthur Lanyon that will adorn the cover of my new book, The Psychedelics Manual: Metaphysics…
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New interview with Matthew Gray of Cheltenham and UK Philosophers:
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Mar 26
Tonight’s entertainment……🧐🧠🤙🏻
Richard Feynman: Why It’s Physically IMPOSSIBLE for Consciousness to Be ... youtu.be/5yCGgs_GxaM?si=ny8t… via @YouTube
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Mar 13
Mike Levin discusses his research into bioelectric fields, cognitive glue, cancer treatment, mind blindness, diverse intelligence, multiscale cognition and problem solving. Brilliant work challenging our conceptions of life, cognition and intelligence.
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Article: "Protocol for investigating the warping of spatial experience across the blind spot to contrast predictions of the Integrated Information Theory and Predictive Processing accounts of consciousness"
First author: Clement Abbatecola
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Feb 7
Not true. Panpsychists don't necessarily think everything is conscious. Just fundamental things.
Feb 7
Parity of predictions doesn’t imply parity of explanation. Physicalism at least aims to specify conditions under which consciousness arises. Panpsychism declares it ubiquitous and thus exempts itself from explaining boundaries, unity, or onset. That asymmetry matters.
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Michael Graziano is one of the top consciousness researchers. Looking forward to watching this.
Feb 5
I had the pleasure of speaking with Michael Graziano, a professor at @PrincetonNeuro and author of the Attention Schema Theory (AST) of consciousness. Key moments:
- AI can be used as a social contagion tool and impact the mood and perception of billions of people.
- The more you treat AI as human-like, the more it leaks into your interactions with other people.
- AI can make predictions, but it doesn't yet have a self-model.
- The Attention Schema Theory (AST) of consciousness is the only theory that can be engineered and implemented in AI systems. Some researchers are already working on it.
Timestamps:
Intro
Consciousness to engineering
AI self-model
Dangers of attributed consciousness
Healthy interactions with AI
Experiments and studies
Social contagion
Future of AI
Treatment of sentient AI
Uploading humans to machines
Attention schema and theories of consciousness Book discussion: existence
Composing symphonies
Writing books
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In conversation with @justinbrierley coming soon
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Feb 3
“Where’s the evidence that the brain produces consciousness? There isn’t any.”
“Panpsychism is the view that consciousness didn’t emerge — it’s always been there, evolving with the cosmos.”
“If we understood matter more sufficiently, it might contain elements of mind within it.”
“The brain generating consciousness? That’s just woo-woo with better branding.”
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Feb 4
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"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."
- Nikola Tesla
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Jan 30
I interviewed Anil about AI consciousness for my Sub Stack prior to the talk. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! (Link it my bio)
Jan 30
Enjoying Anil Seth arguing that AI isn't conscious, and not just because of this slide on transhumanist rapture.
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Jan 30
The brilliant Mike Levin on “how intelligence self-organizes in a diverse range of natural, engineered, and hybrid embodiments”
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Jan 29
“dark matter, dark energy and the arrow of time may all arise from a single underlying process: the irreversible accumulation of information.”
“The universe does not simply exist in time. Time is something the universe continuously writes into itself.”
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Presentation: "Predictive Coding and Neuropsychiatry: Philosophical Implications"
Host: Quinton Deeley for @MaudsleyPhilo
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Jan 10
Sue Blackmore inverts Nagel’s “What is it like to be a bat?” - suggesting a bat (as physical object) may not have experiences, but a model of the bat might. Experience could be a property of models/simulations rather than physical systems themselves.
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