Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of ...
If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...
In this paper I argue that the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness has an underlying emergentist metaphysics, specifically of a kind that has received minimal attention and we may call ...
Join us on 25 November as we explore the legacy of Walter Kohn, the 1998 joint winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry ...
Penn State scientists have unveiled a new theory-driven method to predict superconductors, offering a possible path toward ...
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The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it's real
As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...
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