Mastodawn

My two favorite living philosophers are Slavoj Žižek and David Chalmers.

Over the next year I'm feeding both into the furnace of my Gnostic German Idealism, and letting their paradoxes, wounds, and mind-extensions mutate inside my system. 😈

#SlavojZizek
#DavidChalmers

Philo Sophies Aug 30, 2025

Das „Hard Problem of Consciousness“ 🧠 – warum existiert Bewusstsein?

Chalmers’ „philosophische Zombies“ 🧟‍♂️ lösen es nicht; die Frage bleibt. Heisenberg: Physik zwingt uns, unvereinbare Befunde anzuerkennen.

📺 Interview: youtube.com/watch?v=0LG4gU_jfik

📎 Blog: philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

#HardProblem #Bewusstsein #GerhardRoth #Zoomposium #PhilosophieDesGeistes #Neurophilosophie #Neurowissenschaften #MindBodyProblem #DavidChalmers

Philo Sophies Aug 30, 2025

The Hard Problem of Consciousness 🧠—why does consciousness exist?

Chalmers’ “philosophical zombies” 🧟‍♂️don’t solve it; the question remains. Heisenberg: physics confronts us with incompatible findings.

📺 Interview: youtube.com/watch?v=0LG4gU_jfik

📎 Blog: philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

#HardProblem #Consciousness #GerhardRoth #Zoomposium #PhilosophyOfMind #Neurophilosophy #Neuroscience #MindBodyProblem #DavidChalmers

N-gated Hacker News May 11, 2025

🥶🤖 Oh, the riveting life of a thermostat! Our esteemed philosopher David Chalmers has cracked the case: those little boxes on your wall might just be pondering the joys of room temperature. Because, you know, why wouldn't a box with two settings be the next frontier in consciousness research? 🙄📚
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-thermostat #thermostatphilosophy #consciousnessresearch #DavidChalmers #technologyhumor #roomtemperature #HackerNews #ngated

The Swiss Quality Consulting May 2, 2025

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. -- David Chalmers Tags: #Interests, #DavidChalmers, #American, #PhilosopherMini who's who: David Chalmers : American Philosopher Born: April 20, 1966 #American #DavidChalmers #Interests #Philosopher #quote

https://theswissquality.ch/my-interests-started-about-in-science-and-in-mathematics-i/

A land fit for all our futures Nov 11, 2024

I'm skeptical about the possibility of #AIConsciousness but appreciate that this work on "Taking #AIWelfare Seriously" is well meant

This paper acknowledges "At present, we lack the ability to fully care for the eight billion humans alive at any given time, to say nothing of the quintillions of other animals alive at any given time" although I'm not sure who are the "we" the authors refer to, the global North in general, perhaps?

If there's a possibility of AI consciousness, perhaps people training models should stop exposing algorithms to the worst of humanity through words, sounds and images?

But those wielding the most powerful AI can't look after the welfare of #DataWorkers in their own category of being who are alive today and doing their #piecework, faking automation and fixing algorithmic mistakes

Why is the #welfare of people alive today such a low priority?

#GhostWork
#TESCREAL

#RobertLong, #JeffSebo, #PatrickButlin, #KathleenFinlinson, #KyleFish, #JacquelineHarding, #JacobPfau, #ToniSims, #JonathanBirch, #DavidChalmers

https://arxiv.org/html/2411.00986v1

Taking AI Welfare Seriously

NeurOnToSomething Oct 22, 2024

We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
#JoniMitchell – The Circle Game

#Consciousness in about #2000 words and a Joni Mitchell song

https://neurontosomething.wordpress.com/2021/02/13/the-problems-with-consciousness-your-brainon-the-circle-game-round-one/

#Blindsight #BrainStimulation #epilepsy #HardProblem #NeuralCorrelates #neurology #SplitBrain #DavidChalmers
#DanielDennet
#GiulioTononi #PatientHM
#JosephLeDoux #Gazzaniga #NedBlock
#PatriciaChurchland #PaulChurchland
#WilderPenfield #blog #writing

The Problems with Consciousness: Your Brain…on The Circle Game (Round one)

We can’t return we can only lookBehind from where we cameAnd go round and round and roundIn the circle game Joni Mitchell – The Circle Game Consciousness is a fascinating issue. That said, th…

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