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Philos­o­phy of mind

TagLast edit: Feb 19, 2023, 9:30 PM 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

MichaelStJulesMay 7, 2020, 5:04 AM
34 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

MikeJohnsonJul 20, 2017, 8:46 PM
45 points
76 comments20 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense sen­tience is dubious

Timothy ChanMar 21, 2023, 3:32 PM
24 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Be­ware pop­u­lar dis­cus­sions of AI “sen­tience”

David Mathers🔸Jun 8, 2023, 8:57 AM
42 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Con­scious­ness, coun­ter­fac­tual ro­bust­ness and absurdity

MichaelStJulesApr 12, 2022, 9:19 AM
14 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Solu­tion to the two en­velopes prob­lem for moral weights

MichaelStJulesFeb 19, 2024, 12:15 AM
66 points
26 comments27 min readEA link

Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

MichaelStJulesFeb 27, 2024, 7:31 PM
22 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Types of sub­jec­tive welfare

MichaelStJulesFeb 2, 2024, 9:56 AM
42 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Gra­da­tions of moral weight

MichaelStJulesFeb 29, 2024, 11:08 PM
13 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

The Sub­ject in Sub­jec­tive Time: A New Ap­proach to Ag­gre­gat­ing Wel­lbe­ing (pa­per draft)

Devin KalishSep 15, 2024, 8:18 PM
33 points
2 comments50 min readEA link

2020 PhilPapers Sur­vey Results

RobBensingerNov 2, 2021, 5:06 AM
40 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

[Link] Nor­ma­tive Im­pli­ca­tions of Re­duc­tion­ism about Per­sonal Identity

poliboniDec 5, 2020, 1:54 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pe­rience size

trammellOct 7, 2024, 9:43 PM
101 points
14 comments20 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: util­i­tar­i­anism and consciousness

richard_ngoAug 7, 2020, 7:32 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹Jul 4, 2023, 6:38 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

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

Eevee🔹Jul 4, 2023, 6:43 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

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

Eevee🔹Jul 4, 2023, 6:45 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

Grokking illusionism

Joe_CarlsmithJan 6, 2021, 5:50 AM
29 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute re­search agendas

Global Priorities InstituteNov 29, 2024, 1:26 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

OscarD🔸Jun 15, 2021, 1:35 AM
16 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Im­ple­men­ta­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for Digi­tal Consciousness

Derek ShillerJul 30, 2023, 10:15 PM
35 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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

Zachary Brown🔸Aug 18, 2023, 5:21 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

ChatGPT is ca­pa­ble of cog­ni­tive em­pa­thy!

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Mar 30, 2023, 8:42 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

Why I don’t pri­ori­tize con­scious­ness research

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 28, 2023, 8:07 AM
46 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

#190 – On whether the US is con­scious (Eric Sch­witzgebel on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJun 12, 2024, 3:14 PM
7 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

My fa­vorite ar­ti­cles by Brian To­masik and what they are about

Timothy ChanFeb 24, 2024, 6:10 PM
79 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] AI con­scious­ness & moral sta­tus: What do the ex­perts think?

Jay LuongJul 6, 2024, 3:27 PM
0 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Mind is uncountable

Filip SondejNov 2, 2022, 11:53 AM
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

My The­ory of Con­scious­ness: The Ex­pe­riencer and the Indicator

David HammerleDec 23, 2024, 4:07 AM
1 point
1 comment7 min readEA link

#206 – The pre­dic­tive brain and how to study con­scious­ness (Anil Seth on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursNov 1, 2024, 5:51 PM
13 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

LLMs are weirder than you think

Derek ShillerNov 20, 2024, 1:39 PM
61 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

LLM chat­bots have ~half of the kinds of “con­scious­ness” that hu­mans be­lieve in. Hu­mans should avoid go­ing crazy about that.

Andrew CritchNov 22, 2024, 3:26 AM
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Prac­ti­cal ethics re­quires meta­phys­i­cal Free Will

Astra KamratowskiApr 7, 2022, 2:47 PM
2 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Mo­rally Sig­nifi­cant Pain in Non­hu­mans: Some Philo­soph­i­cal Difficulties

Jason SchukraftDec 23, 2018, 5:49 PM
73 points
8 comments22 min readEA link

Oc­to­puses (Prob­a­bly) Don’t Have Nine Minds

Bob FischerDec 12, 2022, 11:59 AM
94 points
19 comments10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

Daniel_FriedrichNov 4, 2022, 2:34 PM
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

Jack RAug 28, 2022, 5:44 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joshua ClingoSep 1, 2022, 7:34 AM
19 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

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

Bob FischerDec 5, 2022, 11:56 AM
92 points
12 comments21 min readEA link

(p-)Zom­bie Uni­verse: an­other X-risk

Toby Tremlett🔹Jul 28, 2022, 9:34 PM
21 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

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

stepanlosDec 17, 2023, 7:15 PM
5 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-YeungAug 7, 2022, 6:02 AM
48 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

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

Philosophy BearJan 14, 2023, 7:07 AM
18 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Nat­u­ral­is­tic dualism

Arturo MaciasDec 11, 2024, 3:51 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Michael Levin, Scien­tific Panpsy­chism and Teleology

Fergus FettesFeb 12, 2023, 6:21 PM
19 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

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

splinterFeb 18, 2023, 11:29 PM
11 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman LeventovMar 2, 2023, 11:21 AM
8 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

Daniel_FriedrichMar 15, 2023, 2:33 PM
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

80k pod­cast epi­sode on sen­tience in AI systems

rgbMar 15, 2023, 8:19 PM
85 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Ryan CombesOct 24, 2023, 4:11 AM
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

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

rogersbacon1Jul 25, 2023, 4:55 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link