Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

Flavors of Group Consciousness: Vanilla, Strawberry, and Chunky Monkey with Extra Nuts
Disadvantages of a Lingua Franca in Philosophy
A Philosophical Argument That Effectively Convinces Research Participants to Donate to Charity
Michael Tye on Vagueness about Consciousness
The Parable of the Overconfident Student -- and Why Academic Philosophy Still Favors the Socially Privileged
The Nature of Belief From a Philosophical Perspective, With Theoretical and Methodological Implications for Psychology and Cognitive Science
The Collusion Toward Moral Mediocrity
The Splintered Mind: A Chatbot's Take on "Moralometers"
An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument
New Paper in Draft: Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo! Plus, the Problem of Causal Specification
The Ethics of Life as It Could Be: Do We Have Moral Obligations to Artificial Life?
How We Will Decide that Large Language Models Have Beliefs
The Leapfrog Hypothesis for AI Consciousness
A Dispositionalist Approach to Desire and Valuing
An Objection to Chalmers's Fading Qualia Argument
The Ethics of Harmonizing with the Dao
The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
When Is a Theory Superficial?
Ten Purportedly Essential Features of Consciousness
Sacrificing Humans for Insects and AI: A Critical Review
Is AI Conscious? A Primer on the Myths and Confusions Driving the Debate
Representational Realism and the Problem of Tacit Belief
Four Aspects of Harmony
The Intrinsic Value of Diversity