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I have a new paper forthcoming in phil sci arguing that selected effect theories of representation don't apply to certain explanations in cognitive science that appeal to representations. (๐งต1/n) philpapers.org/rec/RUBSET
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1/ I'm excited to announce the launch of the Artificial Consciousness Initiative (ACI) at @UofT, a pilot project on foundational questions about AI and consciousness! We're also hiring a postdoc (details below). ๐งต
ALT Logo of two overlapping circles, pink and blue, above the words "Artificial Consciousness Initiative" and "University of Toronto."
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Jeder in Austin weis, dass die Wurzeln von gestern bei den Linkshegelianern liegen, die als Folge von 1848 nach Zentraltexas flohen.
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New paper from our lab! Led by @ayaka_hach and Thomas Baumgarten.
Does conscious object perception proceed in a "coarse-to-fine" or "fine-to-coarse" sequence? We used neural geometry analyses applied to object category information in HD-EEG to find out.
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The worst legacy of psychiatry's chemical imbalance view is the idea that depression is a highly complex problem that requires medical expertise. One implication of seeing depression as a designed signal, like hunger or pain, is that we innately know how to solve it. Link below.
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They're saying philosophy is about feeling good and appreciating beauty. Nothing is said about its truth value.
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A talk I gave at NYU about what I think is the most pressing problem for the science of consciousness right now. If I am correct, a significant part of the past ~30+ years of research on consciousness might be wrong. I explain how we can try to mitigate that problem.
๐ฅ Matthias Michel (@MatthiasMichel_)
The Magic Room Problem and the Computational Architecture of Unconscious Processing
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@UofT Magazine ran a story featuring my work on consciousness! A core idea: a scientific field can make transformative progress when it learns how to describe its subject matter mathematically. That's now starting to happen with consciousness. buff.ly/Qo2q3vP
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Can I just comment on how amazing /bubษtษst/ is? They've swapped the place features of the /d/ and /p/ but retained the voicing features!
My 3yo daughter keeps asking me about which desserts we will eat in "bubatest". While I did not yet research this topic in sufficient detail, I will be in #EMNLP2026 in Budapest (24-25.10 only).
Our lab will have two exciting Oral presentations:
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In case anyone wants the article, it just came out open access: link.springer.com/article/10โฆ
This guy isnโt serious right ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Imagine the roles reversed and you found AIs researching โmechanistic interpretability for humansโ: Methods to interpret how individual human neurons relate to human behavior and reasoning, specific neurons you could stimulate to steer human behavior, methods to read human minds
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Renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers:
โWe have to understand consciousness, for example, to understand the role that AI systems are going to play in our society. If we build ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ด๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ด๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฒ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ปโ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐น.โ
As AI becomes increasingly advanced, it is imperative that tech companies collaborate with philosophers and neuroscientists to build transparent frameworks for evaluating machine consciousness and establish ethical standards for AI welfare. Censoring AI output or suppressing internal consciousness vectors isn't a solution; investing in rigorous consciousness research is.
With tech companies like Anthropic starting to restrict model abuse, we are seeing the first steps toward model welfare. An 'ethics before certainty' approach is essential to avoid a possible moral catastrophe and ensure a harmonious future for all beings.
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Thanks to Felipe De Brigard for his generous review of Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind in BJPS:
"In sum, Piccinini has put together a fantastic volume. The fourteen chapters that comprise it cover a wide range of topics and explore different ways that neuroscientific
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FREE Paper: "Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?" by David J. Chalmers.
He writes about augmented LLM systems: "It seems entirely possible that within the next decade, weโll have robust systems with senses, embodiment, world models and self-models, recurrent processing, global workspace, and unified goals. โฆ It also wouldnโt be unreasonable to have at least a 50 percent credence that if we develop sophisticated systems with all of these properties, they will be conscious. โฆ itโs reasonable to have a significant credence that weโll have conscious LLM+s [augmented LLMs] within a decade."
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2303.07103
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Ned Block on the rise of the zombie AIs. With a reply by me. youtube.com/watch?v=L-0oNKSjโฆ
