What Would a Conscious AI Actually Feel?
The question sounds like science fiction, but it demands philosophical precision. I argue that asking ‘what it’s like’ to be an AI is already making a loaded …
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Longer reflections on consciousness, technology, and the philosophy of everyday mental life.
The Emotions of Machines: Can AI Feel?
If a machine behaves as though it is in pain, does it matter whether it actually feels pain? The question forces us to disentangle what we mean by emotion, and why the distinction …
Descartes Was Half Right — and the Half He Got Wrong Matters More
The Cogito is one of the most audacious moves in the history of thought. It also contains a subtle equivocation that has haunted mind–body debates for four centuries.