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The Splintered Mind

Eric Schwitzgebel

reflections on the philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

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The Summer Illusion (repost)

Aloha from Honolulu! I have vacation brain, so I'll do a summer-themed repost.

[Photo from the Bishop Museum malacology exhibit]


Every spring I suffer the Summer Illusion. The following three incompa...

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The Cognitive Advantages of Being of Two Minds, or Twelve, or Twelve Hundred

I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

[Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird]

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AI Slop and Evidence about Evidence: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose

I don’t want to read your AI-generated email. Lots of reasons why, but here’s the core of it: I want the text to reflect your thoughts. I want to know that you, the human, actually had those ideas and had them authentically enough to expres...

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New book in draft! Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights

Here. Comments welcomed, hoped for, treasured.

Over the past couple years I’ve been working on a pair of books, AI and Consciousness and Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights. I began circulating AI and Consciousness last fall, and it should a...

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Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism

In philosophy of mind, people sometimes say things like the following: If functionalism is true about consciousness, then digital computers could be conscious; all it requires is that they instantiate the right programs. And yes, most funct...

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