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Philos­o­phy of mind

TagLast edit: 19 Feb 2023 21:30 UTC by Will Aldred

The study of the nature of the mind, including the mind’s relationship with the body and with the rest of the physical world.

Central problems in philosophy of mind include the mind–body problem, the hard problem of consciousness, and personal identity.

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Phys­i­cal the­o­ries of con­scious­ness re­duce to panpsychism

MichaelStJules7 May 2020 5:04 UTC
34 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

MikeJohnson20 Jul 2017 20:46 UTC
45 points
76 comments20 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense sen­tience is dubious

Timothy Chan21 Mar 2023 15:32 UTC
23 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Con­scious­ness, coun­ter­fac­tual ro­bust­ness and absurdity

MichaelStJules12 Apr 2022 9:19 UTC
14 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Gra­da­tions of moral weight

MichaelStJules29 Feb 2024 23:08 UTC
13 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

[Link] Nor­ma­tive Im­pli­ca­tions of Re­duc­tion­ism about Per­sonal Identity

poliboni5 Dec 2020 13:54 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How Should Free Will The­o­ries Im­pact Effec­tive Altru­ism?

Oscar Delaney15 Jun 2021 1:35 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Grokking illusionism

Joe_Carlsmith6 Jan 2021 5:50 UTC
29 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

2020 PhilPapers Sur­vey Results

RobBensinger2 Nov 2021 5:06 UTC
40 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: util­i­tar­i­anism and consciousness

richard_ngo7 Aug 2020 19:32 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Epi­sode #179 - Why is con­scious­ness some­thing worth talk­ing about? - Philoso­phize This!

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

Epi­sode #180 - What if ev­ery­thing is con­scious­ness? - Philoso­phize This!

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:43 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

Epi­sode #181 - What if con­scious­ness is an illu­sion? - Philoso­phize This!

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:45 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

Be­ware pop­u­lar dis­cus­sions of AI “sen­tience”

David Mathers8 Jun 2023 8:57 UTC
42 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Solu­tion to the two en­velopes prob­lem for moral weights

MichaelStJules19 Feb 2024 0:15 UTC
61 points
26 comments27 min readEA link

Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

MichaelStJules27 Feb 2024 19:31 UTC
22 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Types of sub­jec­tive welfare

MichaelStJules2 Feb 2024 9:56 UTC
40 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-Yeung7 Aug 2022 6:02 UTC
48 points
5 comments25 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Eric Sch­witzgebel: AI sys­tems must not con­fuse users about their sen­tience or moral status

Zachary Brown18 Aug 2023 17:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

[Question] Is any­one here a philoso­pher or economist work­ing on the in­ter­per­sonal com­par­i­son prob­lem?

Philosophy Bear14 Jan 2023 7:07 UTC
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

ChatGPT is ca­pa­ble of cog­ni­tive em­pa­thy!

mikbp30 Mar 2023 20:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

Michael Levin, Scien­tific Panpsy­chism and Teleology

Fergus Fettes12 Feb 2023 18:21 UTC
19 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Should ChatGPT make us down­weight our be­lief in the con­scious­ness of non-hu­man an­i­mals?

splinter18 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC
11 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman Leventov2 Mar 2023 11:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

Daniel_Friedrich15 Mar 2023 14:33 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

80k pod­cast epi­sode on sen­tience in AI systems

rgb15 Mar 2023 20:19 UTC
85 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Self in Ar­tifi­cial Con­scious­ness: A Bud­dhist In­ves­ti­ga­tion into Ad­vanced AI

Ryan Combes24 Oct 2023 4:11 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

Why I don’t pri­ori­tize con­scious­ness research

Vasco Grilo28 Oct 2023 8:07 UTC
45 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:53 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

My fa­vorite ar­ti­cles by Brian To­masik and what they are about

Timothy Chan24 Feb 2024 18:10 UTC
74 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Oc­to­puses (Prob­a­bly) Don’t Have Nine Minds

Bob Fischer12 Dec 2022 11:59 UTC
94 points
19 comments10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

A new place to dis­cuss cog­ni­tive sci­ence, ethics and hu­man alignment

Daniel_Friedrich4 Nov 2022 14:34 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

Jack R28 Aug 2022 17:44 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

Astra Kamratowski7 Apr 2022 14:47 UTC
2 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Do Brains Con­tain Many Con­scious Sub­sys­tems? If So, Should We Act Differ­ently?

Bob Fischer5 Dec 2022 11:56 UTC
90 points
8 comments21 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Mo­rally Sig­nifi­cant Pain in Non­hu­mans: Some Philo­soph­i­cal Difficulties

Jason Schukraft23 Dec 2018 17:49 UTC
71 points
8 comments22 min readEA link

(p-)Zom­bie Uni­verse: an­other X-risk

tobytrem28 Jul 2022 21:34 UTC
19 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

The Limits of Ar­tifi­cial Con­scious­ness: A Biol­ogy-Based Cri­tique of Chalmers’ Fad­ing Qualia Argument

stepanlos17 Dec 2023 19:15 UTC
5 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

“The Uni­verse of Minds”—call for re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbacon125 Jul 2023 16:55 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Im­ple­men­ta­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for Digi­tal Consciousness

Derek Shiller30 Jul 2023 22:15 UTC
35 points
4 comments3 min readEA link