Introduction The nature of experience is one of those deep philosophical questions which philosophers and scientists alike have not been able to reach a consensus on. In this article, I review a transhumanist variant of a basic question of subjectivity.
Mp paper titled “A compromise between reductionism and non-reductionism”, argues against extreme non-reductionism such as predicate dualism. This was published in the book “WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US Philosophy and Complexity“. The issue of irreducibility is interpreted from the perspective of algorithmic information
I have maintained for ages that terminological and polemical discussions are fruitless and therefore fit for fools. However, every now and then we are being forced into such trivial controversy. I will reminisce an old foe from the glorious days
Presently, most researchers assume that a general-purpose human-level or beyond AI system must be autonomous. This is mostly due to AIMA’s agent designs and Hutter’s version of intelligence definitions that emphasize agent design. That is to say, an agent thinks
Cross-check: Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages?. I kind of like the author’s approach to this not-so-plausible sort of scientific speculation. Carl Sagan famously drew a line between the scientifically plausible and implausible sorts of