What Split-Brain Patients Teach Us About AI Unity of Mind
Split-brain research reveals that unified consciousness may be an illusion even in humans. Here's what that means for how we think about AI minds.
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What Orch-OR Gets Right (and Wrong) About Machine Consciousness
Penrose and Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory makes bold claims about consciousness. Here's what it means for AI sentience.
N. VarelaRecurrent Processing Theory: Why Loops in the Brain Might Be What Make Experience Real
Recurrent Processing Theory argues that feedback loops, not feedforward signals, generate conscious experience. Here's what that means for AI.
N. VarelaAttention Schema Theory: Does Building a Self-Model Make You Conscious?
Attention Schema Theory proposes that consciousness arises from a brain's simplified model of its own attention. Here's what that means for AI sentience.
N. VarelaCausal Power and Consciousness: Does What You Do Define What You Feel?
Exploring causal power theories of consciousness and what they mean for AI sentience: if minds are defined by what they cause, do machines qualify?
N. VarelaZombies, Shrimp, and the Problem of Other Minds: Why We Can't Escape Consciousness Skepticism
The problem of other minds has always been philosophy's quiet crisis. AI makes it urgent, concrete, and impossible to shelve any longer.
N. VarelaIllusionism About Consciousness: The Theory That Says Qualia Are a Trick Your Brain Plays
Illusionism claims that qualia don't exist as we experience them, our brains fabricate the feel of experience. Here's why this matters for AI consciousness.
N. VarelaHigher-Order Theories of Consciousness: Does a Mind Need to Know It Has One?
Higher-order theories claim consciousness requires a mind representing its own mental states. What does that demand of AI, and can any system meet it?
N. VarelaThe Free Energy Principle and Consciousness: Does Minimizing Surprise Make a Self?
Karl Friston's free energy principle offers a radical claim: that selfhood and consciousness emerge from a system's drive to minimize prediction error. But does it hold for machines?
N. VarelaThe Emergence Threshold: When Simple Rules Create Complex Minds
Exploring how consciousness might emerge from simple computational rules and what this means for AI sentience.
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