🥶🤖 Oh, the riveting life of a thermostat! Our esteemed philosopher David Chalmers has cracked the case: those little boxes on your wall might just be pondering the joys of room temperature. Because, you know, why wouldn't a box with two settings be the next frontier in consciousness research? 🙄📚
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-thermostat #thermostatphilosophy #consciousnessresearch #DavidChalmers #technologyhumor #roomtemperature #HackerNews #ngated

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. -- David Chalmers Tags: #Interests, #DavidChalmers, #American, #PhilosopherMini who's who: David Chalmers : American Philosopher Born:  April 20, 1966 #American #DavidChalmers #Interests #Philosopher #quote

https://theswissquality.ch/my-interests-started-about-in-science-and-in-mathematics-i/

I'm skeptical about the possibility of #AIConsciousness but appreciate that this work on "Taking #AIWelfare Seriously" is well meant

This paper acknowledges "At present, we lack the ability to fully care for the eight billion humans alive at any given time, to say nothing of the quintillions of other animals alive at any given time" although I'm not sure who are the "we" the authors refer to, the global North in general, perhaps?

If there's a possibility of AI consciousness, perhaps people training models should stop exposing algorithms to the worst of humanity through words, sounds and images?

But those wielding the most powerful AI can't look after the welfare of #DataWorkers in their own category of being who are alive today and doing their #piecework, faking automation and fixing algorithmic mistakes

Why is the #welfare of people alive today such a low priority?

#GhostWork
#TESCREAL

#RobertLong, #JeffSebo, #PatrickButlin, #KathleenFinlinson, #KyleFish, #JacquelineHarding, #JacobPfau, #ToniSims, #JonathanBirch, #DavidChalmers

https://arxiv.org/html/2411.00986v1

We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
#JoniMitchell – The Circle Game

#Consciousness in about #2000 words and a Joni Mitchell song

https://neurontosomething.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/the-problems-with-consciousness-your-brainon-the-circle-game-round-one/

#Blindsight #BrainStimulation #epilepsy #HardProblem #NeuralCorrelates #neurology #SplitBrain #DavidChalmers
#DanielDennet
#GiulioTononi #PatientHM
#JosephLeDoux #Gazzaniga #NedBlock
#PatriciaChurchland #PaulChurchland
#WilderPenfield #blog #writing

#DavidChalmers - #Consciousness and the #Self

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53sYoEuvEc

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Qualia #Personhood #Introspection #Brain #Materialism #Dualism #Panpsychism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#StuartHameroff - Toward a #Science of #Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnmpw9nvTl8

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Qualia #Awareness #Self #Brain #Neuroscience #Neurology #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #WaveFunction #WaveFunctionCollapse #Decoherence #Penrose #RogerPenrose #Microtubules #HardProblem #Chalmers #DavidChalmers #Computation #Synapse #Panpsychism #Dualism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#DavidChalmers - What #Exists?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6FodXTwB04

#Philosophhy #Metaphysics #Existence #Things #Objects #Being #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Physics #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Metaphysician #Matter #Energy #SpaceTime #Universe #Physicalism #Physicalist #Consciousness #Mind #Panpsychism #Monism #Dualism #Contingency #Idealism #AbstractObjects #Aggregation #CloserToTruth #RobertKhun

I wanted to use a news article for a talk but in the middle of it was this offensive comparison. Some people in the lecture may have lost family in this bombing. It boggles my mind that any academic would make this kind of, frankly speaking, stupid analogy. No matter how awful the letter. 😒 #DavidChalmers #IIT

"Should we create conscious AI? I'm not myself an ethicist, but it’s clear that right now we face many pressing ethical challenges about large language models.
There are issues about fairness, about safety, about truthfulness, about justice, about accountability. If conscious AI is coming somewhere down the line, then that will raise a new group of difficult ethical challenges. One issue is that conscious AI could well lead to new harms toward humans and AI systems themselves." (#DavidChalmers)