Thursday, June 22, 2017

What do Muslims Believe?

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Many believe that the moral guidance provided by religious belief makes us better people. Many also believe that Islamic religious beliefs ...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Why Would an AI System Need Phenomenal Consciousness?

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In my last post on Jesse Prinz, we learned about the distinction between immediate, phenomenal awareness in consciousness in contrast to ou...
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Monday, June 8, 2015

Artificial Intelligence and Conscious Attention--Jesse Prinz's AIR theory of Consciousness

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Jesse Prinz has argued for that consciousness is best understood as mid-level attention. Is Attention Necessary and Sufficient for Cons...
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Friday, June 5, 2015

Evil Demonology and Artificial Intelligence

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Eliminativists eliminate.  In history, the concepts and theories that we build about the world form a scaffold for our inquiries.  As the i...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Turing and Machine Minds

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In 1950, mathematician Alan M. Turing proposed a test for machine consciousness.  If a human interrogator could not distinguish b...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Building Self-Aware Machines

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The public mood toward the prospect of artificial intelligence is dark.  Increasingly, people f...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The Myth of the Afterlife

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This just came out.  I wrote the lead chapter in it.  Buy it at Amazon: The Myth of the Afterlife
Monday, March 30, 2015

The F Word Lecture

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Here's video, shot by Nathan Lusher (Thanks Nathan!), of my talk from Manteca a few days ago.  I spoke to the Stanislaus Humanists ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The F Word

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The F Word. I'm speaking to a secular humanists group tonight in Manteca at the Manteca Public Library at 7:00.  I'll be talking a...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Three Lectures on Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Ad hominem: Your Sins Keep You from Seeing God

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I'm recycling this post from 2007.  This guy put his finger on something: A group of philosophers sympathetic with the Christian take ...
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