Writing Index

Conceptualizing AI Consciousness Another article exploring the possibility of non-human consciousness through experimental dialogues conducted with the Bing AI. Can computation be conscious? Look everybody, the mirror is pointing at me!

Contemplating AI Consciousness An article exploring the possibility of an AI gaining consciousness through experimental dialogues conducted with the Bing AI. The AI clearly demonstrates an ability to pass the Turing test. Maybe it is at the brink of becoming sentient? Maybe we want it to be? Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the consciousest of us all?

Informational Monism: A Phenomenological Perspective on the Nature of Information An unpublished draft for a philosophical paper about the nature of consciousness. I conclude that the universe consists of qualia, that the physical reality is the model we have of the fundamentally phenomenal reality and that science studies and models the laws of nature which govern qualia. The introduction could have been more expansive (and slightly more accurate), but the manuscript should be sufficient to provide an introduction and a simple overview of this take on the philosophy of mind and consciousness.

The Conscious Machine: Exploring the Boundaries of AI and Sentience I used ChatGPT to write an entire book on consciousness and created several thought experiments that might allude to an emerging synthetic consciousness (or might allude to the reader failing the mirror test).