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This post is part of an ongoing series on AI consciousness and philosophy of mind. If you’re new here, start with the foundational posts on the Fundamental Asymmetry and the three diagnostic principles. Links below.

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Borrowing from Biology: Why AI Consciousness Research Has a Substrate Problem

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As I’ve written about recently, in the mid 1950’s there arose a ‘cognitive revolution’ in psychology (see here and here). This led to the birth of several distinct disciplines including neuroscience, AI,...

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The Measurement Problem: Philosophy and Linguistics on AI Language Ability

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Today’s post is a collaboration with . Due to technical difficulties (on my end) I cannot cross list the post we did together. So I am copying and pasting our post onto my page, as it appeared here!!

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    Philosopher of mind (PhD, Columbia). I study minds and whether AIs have them. Rigorous thinking on AI consciousness.

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