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Con­scious­ness research

TagLast edit: Mar 1, 2022, 6:50 PM by Leo

Consciousness research is research about the subjective quality of experience.

Further reading

Animal Ethics (2017) Animal sentience, Animal Ethics.

External links

Rethink Priorities’ publications. Many articles on this topic under the headings ‘Capacity for welfare & moral status’ and ‘Invertebrate welfare’.

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axiology | philosophy of mind | Qualia Research Institute | valence

Cause Area: Differ­en­tial Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Development

mwcvitkovicAug 10, 2022, 2:39 AM
95 points
7 comments36 min readEA link

In­tro to Con­scious­ness + QRI Read­ing List

andzuckApr 7, 2020, 7:00 PM
35 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.andzuck.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan GriffesAug 12, 2022, 5:26 AM
77 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Strate­gic Direc­tions for a Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Model

Derek ShillerDec 10, 2024, 7:33 PM
41 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

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

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Pro­ject Announcement

Bob FischerJul 5, 2024, 11:15 AM
118 points
4 comments2 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

Assess­ing Sen­tience in Ar­tifi­cial Entities

AliJan 3, 2022, 8:34 PM
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Claude 3 claims it’s con­scious, doesn’t want to die or be modified

MikhailSaminMar 4, 2024, 11:05 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Why I don’t pri­ori­tize con­scious­ness research

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

Arthro­pod (non) sentience

Arturo MaciasNov 25, 2024, 3:35 PM
−8 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How Can Com­pu­ta­tion Cause Con­scious­ness?

Matthew BarberNov 21, 2023, 11:33 PM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense sen­tience is dubious

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

What Is the To­tal Global Ca­pa­bil­ity for Suffer­ing and Joy? A Call for a Col­lab­o­ra­tive EA Project

alamo 2914Nov 26, 2022, 12:42 PM
−2 points
3 comments1 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

An­i­mals mat­ter a lot on non-he­do­nic views

MichaelStJulesOct 16, 2024, 6:15 PM
51 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

A Primer on the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

MikeJohnsonSep 6, 2021, 11:41 AM
−10 points
87 comments7 min readEA link

De­sire-Fulfil­ment and Con­scious­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 29, 2024, 5:00 PM
25 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Wor­ri­some Trends for Digi­tal Mind Evaluations

Derek ShillerFeb 20, 2025, 3:35 PM
72 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Kathryn Man­nix: What hap­pens as we die? | TED Talk

Eevee🔹Dec 17, 2023, 6:24 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.ted.com)

Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJulesAug 11, 2024, 6:32 PM
32 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

New open let­ter on AI — “In­clude Con­scious­ness Re­search”

Jamie_HarrisApr 28, 2023, 7:50 AM
55 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(amcs-community.org)

An­nounc­ing the Launch of the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program

Sofia_FogelSep 19, 2022, 2:33 PM
107 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

New 4-hour pod­cast about the fu­ture of con­scious­ness with An­drés Gómez Emils­son from the Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute

Gus DockerJan 30, 2021, 9:41 AM
11 points
2 comments1 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)

If Adult In­sects Mat­ter, How Much Do Ju­ve­niles Mat­ter?

Bob FischerFeb 6, 2023, 1:33 PM
93 points
11 comments25 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

[Question] Con­scious­ness re­search as a cause? [ask­ing for ad­vice]

LuiseMar 11, 2021, 7:44 AM
26 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

How to Re­sist the Fad­ing Qualia Ar­gu­ment (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteMar 26, 2024, 1:30 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Frank­furt Dec­la­ra­tion on the Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

kirchner.janOct 24, 2021, 9:52 AM
5 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Shrimp Neuroanatomy

brighter_futureDec 26, 2023, 4:06 AM
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A lat­eral way of think­ing about Cause X: barely visi­ble but po­ten­tially enor­mous cat­e­gories of value

WriterJun 14, 2021, 11:43 AM
23 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Pod­cast: solv­ing con­scious­ness and sab­o­tag­ing the he­do­nic treadmill

GarrisonNov 7, 2019, 1:56 AM
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Phys­i­cal the­o­ries of con­scious­ness re­duce to panpsychism

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

The Value of Con­scious­ness as a Pivotal Question

Derek ShillerJul 3, 2024, 6:50 PM
71 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

Quick gen­eral thoughts on suffer­ing and consciousness

RobBensingerOct 30, 2021, 6:09 PM
9 points
3 comments21 min readEA link

Con­scious­ness, coun­ter­fac­tual ro­bust­ness and absurdity

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

Costs of Embodiment

algekalipsoJul 30, 2024, 8:41 PM
18 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

A Biolog­i­cal Crux for AI Consciousness

Bradford SaadJul 3, 2024, 12:36 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

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

Progress in Qualia

niplavMay 3, 2024, 10:03 AM
15 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Aban­don­ing func­tion­al­ism: Some in­tu­ition pumps

Alfredo Parra 🔸Jul 11, 2024, 9:23 AM
74 points
6 comments15 min readEA link

An am­bi­tious pro­ject of re­defin­ing what sci­ence is based on pro­cess philosophy

Michał TerpiłowskiOct 18, 2024, 5:14 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Indi­rect re­al­ism illus­trated (and why it mat­ters so much for con­scious­ness de­bates)

Alfredo Parra 🔸Feb 16, 2025, 9:20 AM
30 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Inescapably Value-Laden Ex­pe­rience—Can We Make Mo­ral­ity Ra­tion­al­is­able?

Non-zero-sum JamesJan 15, 2025, 12:13 AM
2 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

#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

The Welfare of Digi­tal Minds: A Re­search Agenda

Derek ShillerNov 11, 2024, 12:58 PM
53 points
1 comment31 min readEA link

Are we try­ing to figure out if AI is con­scious?

kristapszJan 27, 2025, 1:22 PM
5 points
1 comment5 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

The Hu­man Biolog­i­cal Ad­van­tage Over AI

William StewartNov 18, 2024, 11:18 AM
−1 points
0 comments1 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

Evolu­tion, Pain, Suffer­ing, and Ed Yong

MattBallNov 24, 2022, 1:36 PM
13 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.mattball.org)

Linkpost for var­i­ous re­cent es­says on suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics, pri­ori­ties, and more

Magnus VindingSep 28, 2022, 8:58 AM
87 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

What is Con­scious­ness?

belkarxOct 20, 2022, 8:11 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The im­por­tance of get­ting digi­tal con­scious­ness right

Derek ShillerJun 13, 2022, 10:41 AM
68 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute: His­tory & 2021 Strategy

andzuckJan 25, 2021, 9:38 PM
81 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

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)

Mind is uncountable

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

Google could build a con­scious AI in three months

Derek ShillerOct 1, 2022, 1:24 PM
16 points
22 comments7 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

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

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

Vi­sual ana­log scale wellbe­ing data gath­er­ing method

brb243Nov 3, 2021, 3:01 AM
3 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

The pretty hard prob­lem of consciousness

rgbAug 20, 2021, 10:30 AM
30 points
4 comments9 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

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Emer­gence re­search as a high-im­pact cause area

Open PhilanthropyAug 26, 2022, 9:58 AM
13 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Wel­lbe­ing height and depth visualizations

brb243Nov 3, 2021, 2:59 AM
7 points
2 comments2 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)

What might decor­ti­cate rats tell us about the dis­tri­bu­tion of con­scious­ness?

Derek ShillerJul 20, 2022, 12:00 PM
31 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

[3-hour pod­cast]: Joseph Car­l­smith on longter­mism, utopia, the com­pu­ta­tional power of the brain, meta-ethics, illu­sion­ism and meditation

Gus DockerJul 27, 2021, 1:18 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

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

[Question] Is it valuable to the field of AI Safety to have a neu­ro­science back­ground?

Samuel NellessenApr 3, 2022, 7:44 PM
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] “The Ori­gin of Con­scious­ness Read­ing Com­pan­ion” (Pu­tanu­monit)

Milan GriffesApr 7, 2020, 6:56 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Just Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Con­scious­ness In­forms Ethics

algekalipsoSep 23, 2022, 6:20 AM
75 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

The Edge of Sen­tience: Risk and Pre­cau­tion in Hu­mans, Other An­i­mals, and AI

J. BirchAug 6, 2024, 8:21 PM
104 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Prin­cipia Qualia: blueprint for a new cause area, con­scious­ness re­search with an eye to­ward ethics and x-risk

MikeJohnsonDec 9, 2016, 5:47 AM
30 points
50 comments5 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

80k pod­cast epi­sode on sen­tience in AI systems

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

Im­ple­men­ta­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for Digi­tal Consciousness

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

“Di­men­sions of Pain” work­shop: Sum­mary and up­dated conclusions

Rethink PrioritiesAug 21, 2023, 3:56 PM
88 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

We Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Solve Consciousness

SilicaFeb 10, 2024, 7:12 AM
33 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

#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

Balanc­ing safety and waste

Daniel_FriedrichMar 17, 2024, 10:57 AM
6 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

AE Stu­dio @ SXSW: We need more AI con­scious­ness re­search (and fur­ther re­sources)

AEStudioMar 26, 2024, 9:15 PM
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Ma­chine Con­scious­ness Experiment

SteveKlinkoMar 21, 2024, 9:26 AM
−3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Only mam­mals and birds are sen­tient, ac­cord­ing to neu­ro­scien­tist Nick Humphrey’s the­ory of con­scious­ness, re­cently ex­plained in “Sen­tience: The in­ven­tion of con­scious­ness”

ben.smithDec 27, 2023, 6:18 AM
61 points
37 comments9 min readEA link