The philosophy blog: Occasional philosophical thoughts on consciousness, science, technology, AI, ethics, and other related stuff.
The Internet is driving us all insane. Social media is a toxic thought-toilet. As stated in October’s newsletter, here are my “good practice” tips for digital sanity. I’ll add to these occasionally, so feel free to comment or suggest your own. Delete as many social media accounts as possible. Think how much time you’ll free …
Thoughts on John Searle’s Chinese Room Can a machine think? In his famous paper addressing this question, mathematician Alan Turing argued that if a machine could perform all the tasks that a human intellect could (and more), then why wouldn’t you consider this to be “thinking”? (Even if, he admitted, this might be to stretch …
Why You Are (Probably) Not Living in a Computer Simulation I recently watched Devs, a somewhat bleak but stylish, serious and well-researched TV drama written by Alex Garland, which explores a number of philosophical themes close to my heart. The following discussion of it contains some spoilers, so if you haven’t seen it yet (and …