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Eric Schwitzgebel

@eschwitz.bsky.social

Philosopher, UC Riverside. Father. Human.

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Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Conscious entities in different star systems might employ different carbon-based biochemistries, @jpober.bsky.social and I modestly argue in a recent draft paper. A few iterations through the popular press and the headline is now "Scientists Suggest Advanced Aliens May Exist Without Physical Bodies"

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Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · last mo.

Hot off the press at Phil Imprint! "The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; the Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness", with @jpober.bsky.social. Abstract: On broadly Copernican grounds, we are entitled to assume that apparently behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial 1/6

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Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · last mo.

Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI Eric Schwitzgebel in draft Future AI persons might both (1.) deserve moral consideration and rights fully equal with natural human persons, and (2.) have lifeways so radically different from ours as to break familiar patterns of moral 1/4

Title page: Strange Intelligence: Moral Puzzles of Unhumanlike AI, by Eric Schwitzgebel
Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · last mo.

@henryshevlin.bsky.social, Calum Chase, and I discuss AI consciousness, the strangeness of reality, moral uncertainty, the Fermi paradox, simulation arguments and more: www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...

Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines

Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness, eth...

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Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New in print! "The Washout Argument Against Longtermism" "Longtermists" often make calculations based on *very* long time frames -- for example that one reason to prioritize even tiny reductions in the chance of near-term human extinction is that we might have many trillions of happy 1/4

The Washout Argument against Longtermism, Eric Schwitzgebel, Utilitas
Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Paper in Draft: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (with Jeremy Pober) Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now a hot topic in the metaphysics of mind. That is, does being 1/N

Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness Jeremy Pober Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (corresponding author: Jeremy.pober@gmail.com) Eric Schwitzgebel Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside
Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You think you know what belief is? No! At best you have an accidentally true opinion, unless you've read Jonathan Lewis-Jong's and my edited collection, The Nature of Belief, hot off the press at OUP. (Also available open access at OUP's website.)

Book cover: The Nature of Belief, edited by Jonathan Lewis-Jong and Eric Schwitzgebel
Eric Schwitzgebel@eschwitz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Last week I submitted my latest book manuscript to Cambridge University Press (for their "Element" series of books about 100 pages long): AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview -- because you haven't heard nearly enough about AI and consciousness recently, of course! 😉 Maybe you'll 1/3

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