Disagreeable Me

Prompted by Keith Frankish's recent streamed discussion of LLM intentionality on YouTube , there's a particular idea I wanted to sha...

I wanted to come out of blog dormancy to write up my thoughts on what I feel is a very important argument against computationalism. The...

I've taken a long hiatus while I tried to think if there was anything substantive I had left to say about Strong AI. I didn't come ...

In my previous post, I alluded to an argument made by John Lucas and popularised by Roger Penrose against the possibility of AI, and th...

In this article, I want to examine the issues presented by the problem of consciousness when examined from a naturalistic or physicalist ...

Perhaps we are no more conscious that the automatons we imagine in our thought experiments when considering questions about artificial int...

In this post, I will attempt to make an argument for Strong AI from an evolutionary perspective. Please keep the assumptions stated in my ...

Let's take Strong AI as the viewpoint that the essential capabilities of the brain are computational, meaning that were we to reproduc...

Yesterday's post was quite long and wide-ranging, with a lot of examples etc. It focused specifically on how it might be possible to ge...

It has become obvious to me that in order to fully explain my world view, I must first defend strong AI. Strong AI is the position th...

To whom do we have a moral duty? Sam Harris identifies "conscious beings" as the beneficiaries of our morality. This is a ver...