‘mind’ directory
- See Also
-
Gwern
- “The Diamond Earrings”, Gwern 2023
- “You Should Write More Online—It’s Still a Good Time”, Gwern 2024
- “On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Gwern et al 2023
- “Review Of The Last Unicorn”, Gwern 2024
- “Review Of The Quantum Thief Trilogy”, Gwern 2022
- “Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?”, Gwern 2018
- “GPT-3 Creative Fiction”, Gwern 2020
- “Surprisingly Turing-Complete”, Gwern 2012
- “GPT-3 Nonfiction”, Gwern 2020
- “I-Zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness”, Gwern 2011
- “Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern 2018
-
Links
- “How Different LLMs Answered the PhilPapers 2020 Survey”, Satron 2025
- “2024 Letter [On LLM Benchmarking]”, Wang 2024
- “What Do Animals Understand About Death?”
- “The GPT”, Ngo 2024
- “GPT-4 Is Judged More Human Than Humans in Displaced and Inverted Turing Tests”, Rathi et al 2024
- “On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-Sonnet]”, Claude-3 2024
- “Language Is Primarily a Tool for Communication rather than Thought”, Fedorenko et al 2024
- “LLMs Achieve Adult Human Performance on Higher-Order Theory of Mind Tasks”, Street et al 2024
- “I Think, Therefore I Am: Benchmarking Awareness of Large Language Models Using AwareBench”, Li et al 2024
- “A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models—Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates”, Millière & Buckner 2024
- “Disembodied Souls Are People, Too”, Huemer 2024
- “Testing Theory of Mind in Large Language Models and Humans”
- “Large Language Models Are Able to Downplay Their Cognitive Abilities to Fit the Persona They Simulate”, Milička et al 2024
- “Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?”, Jones & Bergen 2023
- “FANToM: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Machine Theory of Mind in Interactions”, Kim et al 2023
- “The Dark Triad of Personality and Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility”, Djeriouat 2023
- “Enduring Relationships: Social Aspects of Perceived Interactions With the Dead”, Cerulo 2023
- “The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study”, Maćkiewicz et al 2023
- “Roosters Do Not Warn the Bird in the Mirror: The Cognitive Ecology of Mirror Self-Recognition”, Hillemacher et al 2023
- “Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers”, Schwettmann et al 2023
- ESYudkowsky @ "2023-07-18"
- “Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli”, Li et al 2023
- “Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models”, O’Gara 2023
- “Gödel, Escher, Bach Author Douglas Hofstadter on the State of AI Today § What about AI Terrifies You?”, Hofstadter & Kim 2023
- “Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models With Language Models”, Gandhi et al 2023
- “Boosting Theory-Of-Mind Performance in Large Language Models via Prompting”, Moghaddam & Honey 2023
- “Why It Hurts: With Freedom Comes the Biological Need for Pain”, Farnsworth & Elwood 2023
- “Exposure to Automation Explains Religious Declines”, Jackson et al 2023
- “Increments Podcast: #45—4 Central Fallacies of AI Research (With Melanie Mitchell)”, Mitchell & Chugg 2022
- “Meaning without Reference in Large Language Models”, Piantadosi & Hill 2022
- “The Social Epistemology of Introspection”, Unnsteinsson 2022
- “Automatic or Controlled: How Does Disbelief in Free Will Influence Cognitive Functioning?”, Katzir & Genschow 2022
- “Might Pain Be Experienced in the Brainstem rather than in the Cerebral Cortex?”, Baron & Devor 2022
- “Would You Pass the Turing Test? Influencing Factors of the Turing Decision”, Ujhelyi et al 2022
- “Night Shifts: Can Technology Shape Our Dreams?”, Clune 2022
- “Irrelevant Insights Make Worldviews Ring True”, Laukkonen et al 2022
- “The Defeat of the Winograd Schema Challenge”, Kocijan et al 2022
- “Where Is It Like to Be an Octopus?”, Carls-Diamante 2022
- “Perception in Real-Time: Predicting the Present, Reconstructing the Past”, Hogendoorn 2021
- “Why Computers Don’t Need to Match Human Intelligence: With Continuing Advances in Machine Learning, It Makes Less and Less Sense to Compare AI to the Human Mind”, Lee 2021
- “Psychedelics Alter Metaphysical Beliefs”, Timmermann et al 2021
- “Death § 3.2 The Deprivationist Defense”, SEP 2021
- “Death § 5.2 The Symmetry Argument”, SEP 2021
- “Consequences of Gaining Olfactory Function After Lifelong Anosmia”, Pellegrino et al 2021
- “The Psychology of Philosophy: Associating Philosophical Views With Psychological Traits in Professional Philosophers”, Yaden & Anderson 2021
- “Autistic Traits and Loneliness in Autism Are Associated With Increased Tendencies to Anthropomorphize”, Caruana et al 2021
- “Why Computers Will Never Read (Or Write) Literature: A Logical Proof and a Narrative”, Fletcher 2021
- “The Cartesian Folk Theater: People Conceptualize Consciousness As a Spatio-Temporally Localized Process in the Human Brain”, Forstmann & Burgmer 2021
- “Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data”, Bender & Koller 2020
- “On the Measure of Intelligence”, Chollet 2019
- “Schrödinger’s Zombie: Adam Brown at the 6th FQXi Meeting”, Musser 2019
- “Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness”, Taiz et al 2019
- “GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence”, Alexander 2019
- “Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans § Prologue: Terrified”, Mitchell 2019
- “General Anesthesia: A Probe to Explore Consciousness”, Bonhomme et al 2019
- “Remembering Jerry Fodor and His Work”, Rey 2018
- “Object Personification in Autism: This Paper Will Be Very Sad If You Don’t Read It”, White & Remington 2018b
- “Loyal to the Group of 17’s Story—The Just Man”, Wolfe 2018
- “Better Babblers”, Hanson 2017
- “Child Machines”, Proudfoot 2017
- “Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication”, Panero et al 2016
- “The Nature Of Primary Consciousness: A New Synthesis”, Feinberg & Mallatt 2016
- “What Insects Can Tell Us about the Origins of Consciousness”, Barron & Klein 2016
- “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”, Chalmers 2016
- “On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems”, Baluška & Levin 2016
- “What Do Philosophers Believe?”, Bourget & Chalmers 2013
- “What Do Philosophers Believe? § Factor Analysis”, Bourget & Chalmers 2013 (page 20)
- “A Bad Case of the Flu? The Comparative Phenomenology of Depression and Somatic Illness”, Ratcliffe et al 2013
- “The Whispering Earring”, Alexander 2012
- “Response-Dependence About Esthetic Value”, Watkins & Shelley 2012
- “The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness”, Bakker 2012
- “SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance With Delayed Auditory Feedback”, Kurihara & Tsukada 2012
- “RE: After 4th Path: What Do To?”, Ingram 2012
- “Outing the It That Thinks: The Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem”, Bakker 2011
- “Deep Intellect”, Montgomery 2011
- “Declining Immortality Twice”, Pohl 2011
- “Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity”, Aaronson 2011
- “Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’”, Rijn et al 2011
- “The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension”, Mar 2011
- “Where Do Personal Pronouns Come From?”, Bancel & L’etang 2010
- “On the Quest of Defining Consciousness”, Vimal 2010
- “Inverse Zombies, Anesthesia Awareness, and the Hard Problem of Unconsciousness”, Mashour & LaRock 2008
- “The Unreliability of Naive Introspection”, Schwitzgebel 2008
- “A Methodology for Studying Various Interpretations of the N,N-Dimethyltryptamine-Induced Alternate Reality”, Rodriguez 2006
- “Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White?”, Schwitzgebel 2002
- “Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye—And Doing My Best Not to Flinch”, Hofstadter & Cope 2001
- “Feeling Pain and Being in Pain”, Grahek 2001
- “How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation”, Schwitzgebel & Gordon 2000
- “Perceptual Causality and Animacy”, Scholl & Tremoulet 2000
- “Pain Affect without Pain Sensation in a Patient With a Postcentral Lesion”, Ploner et al 1999
- “Story Of Your Life”, Chiang 1999
- “If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness”, Budiansky 1998
- “Simon Browne: the Soul-Murdered Theologian”, Berman 1996
- “Learning To Be Me”, Egan 1995
- “The Irrelevance of the Medical Model of Mental Illness to Law and Ethics”, Greenberg & Bailey 1994
- “The Child’s Discovery of the Mind”, Astington 1993
- “Pain: The Gift No One Wants § A Poor Substitute”, Brand & Yancey 1993 (page 203)
- “Writing Is a Technology That Restructures Thought”, Ong 1992
- Geoffrey Sonnabend: Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter—An Encapsulation (Fourth Edition, Abridged), Worth 1991
- “One Self: The Logic of Experience”, Zuboff 1990
- “Watchmaker [Watchmen, Chapter 4]”, Moore 1986
- “Against Neural Chauvinism”, Cuda 1985
- “Looking Out from the Isolator: David’s Perception of the World”, Murphy & Vogel 1985
- “Afterword to Vernor Vinge’s Novel, True Names”, Minsky 1984
- “An Epistemological Nightmare”, Smullyan 1982
- “Linguistic and Other Psychological Aspects of Paroxysmal Aphasia”, Lecours & Joanette 1980
- “Why You Can’t Make a Computer That Feels Pain”, Dennett 1978
- “A Divided Mind: Observations on the Conscious Properties of the Separated Hemispheres”, Ledoux et al 1977
- “Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away”, Dennett 1974
- Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives, Ponnamperuma & Cameron 1974
- “Can the Self Divide?”, Perry 1972
- “Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject”, Popper 1968
- “The Brain As an Engineering Problem”, Gregory 1961
- “Speculations on Perceptrons and Other Automata”, Good 1959
- “Computing Machinery And Intelligence”, Turing 1950
- “An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior”, Heider & Simmel 1944
- “Ramon Lull’s Thinking Machine”, Borges 1937
- “The World I Live In § XI. Before The Soul Dawn”, Keller 1904
- “On the Nature of Things: Book 4: The Senses and Mental Pictures”, Lucretius 2025
- “Sébastien Moro on the Most Insane Things Fish Can Do”, Moro 2025
- “The Old Fools”, Larkin 2025
- “The Things”
- “The Subjective Experience of Time: Welfare Implications”
- “The Lie Comes First, the Worlds to Accommodate It”
- “Can We Really Be Friends With an Octopus? When Octopuses Are Social, Are They Reaching out or Simply Reacting?”
- “Do Large Language Models Understand Us?”
- “Is There Suffering in Fundamental Physics?”
- “Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?”
- “The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?”
- “Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind”
- “Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences”
- “How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self”
- “The Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius; against the Fear of Death”, Dryden 2025
- “Why Insects Are More Sensitive Than They Seem”
- “Banishing Consciousness: the Mystery of Anesthesia”
- “David Vetter’s Cognitive Development”
- “PRISM: The Function of Phenomenal States: Supramodular Interaction Theory”
- “Do Drugs Make Religious Experience Possible? They Did for James and for Other Philosopher-Mystics of His Day. James’s Experiments With Psychoactive Drugs Raise Difficult Questions about Belief and Its Conditions”
- “Do Animals Have Feelings?”
- “Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells?”
- “‘Mother’”
- AmandaAskell
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“The Diamond Earrings”, Gwern 2023
“You Should Write More Online—It’s Still a Good Time”, Gwern 2024
“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Gwern et al 2023
On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers
“Review Of The Last Unicorn”, Gwern 2024
“Review Of The Quantum Thief Trilogy”, Gwern 2022
“Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?”, Gwern 2018
“GPT-3 Creative Fiction”, Gwern 2020
“Surprisingly Turing-Complete”, Gwern 2012
“GPT-3 Nonfiction”, Gwern 2020
“I-Zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness”, Gwern 2011
“Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern 2018
Links
“How Different LLMs Answered the PhilPapers 2020 Survey”, Satron 2025
“2024 Letter [On LLM Benchmarking]”, Wang 2024
“What Do Animals Understand About Death?”
“The GPT”, Ngo 2024
“GPT-4 Is Judged More Human Than Humans in Displaced and Inverted Turing Tests”, Rathi et al 2024
GPT-4 is judged more human than humans in displaced and inverted Turing tests
“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-Sonnet]”, Claude-3 2024
On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-sonnet]
“Language Is Primarily a Tool for Communication rather than Thought”, Fedorenko et al 2024
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
“LLMs Achieve Adult Human Performance on Higher-Order Theory of Mind Tasks”, Street et al 2024
LLMs achieve adult human performance on higher-order theory of mind tasks
“I Think, Therefore I Am: Benchmarking Awareness of Large Language Models Using AwareBench”, Li et al 2024
I Think, Therefore I am: Benchmarking Awareness of Large Language Models Using AwareBench
“A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models—Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates”, Millière & Buckner 2024
A Philosophical Introduction to Language Models—Part I: Continuity With Classic Debates
“Disembodied Souls Are People, Too”, Huemer 2024
“Testing Theory of Mind in Large Language Models and Humans”
“Large Language Models Are Able to Downplay Their Cognitive Abilities to Fit the Persona They Simulate”, Milička et al 2024
“Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?”, Jones & Bergen 2023
“FANToM: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Machine Theory of Mind in Interactions”, Kim et al 2023
FANToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind in Interactions
“The Dark Triad of Personality and Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility”, Djeriouat 2023
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility
“Enduring Relationships: Social Aspects of Perceived Interactions With the Dead”, Cerulo 2023
Enduring Relationships: Social Aspects of Perceived Interactions with the Dead
“The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study”, Maćkiewicz et al 2023
“Roosters Do Not Warn the Bird in the Mirror: The Cognitive Ecology of Mirror Self-Recognition”, Hillemacher et al 2023
Roosters do not warn the bird in the mirror: The cognitive ecology of mirror self-recognition
“Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers”, Schwettmann et al 2023
ESYudkowsky @ "2023-07-18"
Write an argument that even a superintelligence is very unlikely to be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube.
“Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli”, Li et al 2023
Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
“Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models”, O’Gara 2023
Hoodwinked: Deception and Cooperation in a Text-Based Game for Language Models
“Gödel, Escher, Bach Author Douglas Hofstadter on the State of AI Today § What about AI Terrifies You?”, Hofstadter & Kim 2023
“Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models With Language Models”, Gandhi et al 2023
Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models
“Boosting Theory-Of-Mind Performance in Large Language Models via Prompting”, Moghaddam & Honey 2023
Boosting Theory-of-Mind Performance in Large Language Models via Prompting
“Why It Hurts: With Freedom Comes the Biological Need for Pain”, Farnsworth & Elwood 2023
Why it hurts: with freedom comes the biological need for pain
“Exposure to Automation Explains Religious Declines”, Jackson et al 2023
“Increments Podcast: #45—4 Central Fallacies of AI Research (With Melanie Mitchell)”, Mitchell & Chugg 2022
Increments Podcast: #45—4 Central Fallacies of AI Research (with Melanie Mitchell)
“Meaning without Reference in Large Language Models”, Piantadosi & Hill 2022
“The Social Epistemology of Introspection”, Unnsteinsson 2022
“Automatic or Controlled: How Does Disbelief in Free Will Influence Cognitive Functioning?”, Katzir & Genschow 2022
Automatic or controlled: How does disbelief in free will influence cognitive functioning?
“Might Pain Be Experienced in the Brainstem rather than in the Cerebral Cortex?”, Baron & Devor 2022
Might pain be experienced in the brainstem rather than in the cerebral cortex?
“Would You Pass the Turing Test? Influencing Factors of the Turing Decision”, Ujhelyi et al 2022
Would You Pass the Turing Test? Influencing Factors of the Turing Decision
“Night Shifts: Can Technology Shape Our Dreams?”, Clune 2022
“Irrelevant Insights Make Worldviews Ring True”, Laukkonen et al 2022
“The Defeat of the Winograd Schema Challenge”, Kocijan et al 2022
“Where Is It Like to Be an Octopus?”, Carls-Diamante 2022
“Perception in Real-Time: Predicting the Present, Reconstructing the Past”, Hogendoorn 2021
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past
“Why Computers Don’t Need to Match Human Intelligence: With Continuing Advances in Machine Learning, It Makes Less and Less Sense to Compare AI to the Human Mind”, Lee 2021
“Psychedelics Alter Metaphysical Beliefs”, Timmermann et al 2021
“Death § 3.2 The Deprivationist Defense”, SEP 2021
Death § 3.2 The Deprivationist Defense :
View External Link:
“Death § 5.2 The Symmetry Argument”, SEP 2021
Death § 5.2 The Symmetry Argument :
View External Link:
“Consequences of Gaining Olfactory Function After Lifelong Anosmia”, Pellegrino et al 2021
Consequences of gaining olfactory function after lifelong anosmia
“The Psychology of Philosophy: Associating Philosophical Views With Psychological Traits in Professional Philosophers”, Yaden & Anderson 2021
“Autistic Traits and Loneliness in Autism Are Associated With Increased Tendencies to Anthropomorphize”, Caruana et al 2021
“Why Computers Will Never Read (Or Write) Literature: A Logical Proof and a Narrative”, Fletcher 2021
Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature: A Logical Proof and a Narrative
“The Cartesian Folk Theater: People Conceptualize Consciousness As a Spatio-Temporally Localized Process in the Human Brain”, Forstmann & Burgmer 2021
“Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data”, Bender & Koller 2020
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data
“On the Measure of Intelligence”, Chollet 2019
“Schrödinger’s Zombie: Adam Brown at the 6th FQXi Meeting”, Musser 2019
“Plants Neither Possess nor Require Consciousness”, Taiz et al 2019
“GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence”, Alexander 2019
“Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans § Prologue: Terrified”, Mitchell 2019
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans § Prologue: Terrified
“General Anesthesia: A Probe to Explore Consciousness”, Bonhomme et al 2019
“Remembering Jerry Fodor and His Work”, Rey 2018
“Object Personification in Autism: This Paper Will Be Very Sad If You Don’t Read It”, White & Remington 2018b
Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don’t read it
“Loyal to the Group of 17’s Story—The Just Man”, Wolfe 2018
“Better Babblers”, Hanson 2017
“Child Machines”, Proudfoot 2017
“Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication”, Panero et al 2016
“The Nature Of Primary Consciousness: A New Synthesis”, Feinberg & Mallatt 2016
“What Insects Can Tell Us about the Origins of Consciousness”, Barron & Klein 2016
“The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”, Chalmers 2016
“On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems”, Baluška & Levin 2016
“What Do Philosophers Believe?”, Bourget & Chalmers 2013
“What Do Philosophers Believe? § Factor Analysis”, Bourget & Chalmers 2013 (page 20)
“A Bad Case of the Flu? The Comparative Phenomenology of Depression and Somatic Illness”, Ratcliffe et al 2013
A Bad Case of the Flu? The Comparative Phenomenology of Depression and Somatic Illness
“The Whispering Earring”, Alexander 2012
“Response-Dependence About Esthetic Value”, Watkins & Shelley 2012
“The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness”, Bakker 2012
The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness
“SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance With Delayed Auditory Feedback”, Kurihara & Tsukada 2012
SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback
“RE: After 4th Path: What Do To?”, Ingram 2012
“Outing the It That Thinks: The Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem”, Bakker 2011
Outing the It that Thinks: The Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem
“Deep Intellect”, Montgomery 2011
“Declining Immortality Twice”, Pohl 2011
“Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity”, Aaronson 2011
“Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’”, Rijn et al 2011
Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’
“The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension”, Mar 2011
The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension :
“Where Do Personal Pronouns Come From?”, Bancel & L’etang 2010
“On the Quest of Defining Consciousness”, Vimal 2010
“Inverse Zombies, Anesthesia Awareness, and the Hard Problem of Unconsciousness”, Mashour & LaRock 2008
Inverse zombies, anesthesia awareness, and the Hard Problem of Unconsciousness
“The Unreliability of Naive Introspection”, Schwitzgebel 2008
“A Methodology for Studying Various Interpretations of the N,N-Dimethyltryptamine-Induced Alternate Reality”, Rodriguez 2006
“Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White?”, Schwitzgebel 2002
“Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye—And Doing My Best Not to Flinch”, Hofstadter & Cope 2001
Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye—And Doing My Best Not to Flinch
“Feeling Pain and Being in Pain”, Grahek 2001
“How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation”, Schwitzgebel & Gordon 2000
How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation
“Perceptual Causality and Animacy”, Scholl & Tremoulet 2000
“Pain Affect without Pain Sensation in a Patient With a Postcentral Lesion”, Ploner et al 1999
Pain affect without pain sensation in a patient with a postcentral lesion
“Story Of Your Life”, Chiang 1999
“If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness”, Budiansky 1998
If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
“Simon Browne: the Soul-Murdered Theologian”, Berman 1996
“Learning To Be Me”, Egan 1995
“The Irrelevance of the Medical Model of Mental Illness to Law and Ethics”, Greenberg & Bailey 1994
The irrelevance of the medical model of mental illness to law and ethics
“The Child’s Discovery of the Mind”, Astington 1993
“Pain: The Gift No One Wants § A Poor Substitute”, Brand & Yancey 1993 (page 203)
“Writing Is a Technology That Restructures Thought”, Ong 1992
Geoffrey Sonnabend: Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter—An Encapsulation (Fourth Edition, Abridged), Worth 1991
“One Self: The Logic of Experience”, Zuboff 1990
“Watchmaker [Watchmen, Chapter 4]”, Moore 1986
“Against Neural Chauvinism”, Cuda 1985
“Looking Out from the Isolator: David’s Perception of the World”, Murphy & Vogel 1985
Looking Out from the Isolator: David’s Perception of the World
“Afterword to Vernor Vinge’s Novel, True Names”, Minsky 1984
“An Epistemological Nightmare”, Smullyan 1982
“Linguistic and Other Psychological Aspects of Paroxysmal Aphasia”, Lecours & Joanette 1980
Linguistic and other psychological aspects of paroxysmal aphasia
“Why You Can’t Make a Computer That Feels Pain”, Dennett 1978
“A Divided Mind: Observations on the Conscious Properties of the Separated Hemispheres”, Ledoux et al 1977
A divided mind: Observations on the conscious properties of the separated hemispheres
“Why the Law of Effect Will Not Go Away”, Dennett 1974
Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives, Ponnamperuma & Cameron 1974
“Can the Self Divide?”, Perry 1972
View PDF:
“Epistemology Without a Knowing Subject”, Popper 1968
“The Brain As an Engineering Problem”, Gregory 1961
“Speculations on Perceptrons and Other Automata”, Good 1959
“Computing Machinery And Intelligence”, Turing 1950
“An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior”, Heider & Simmel 1944
“Ramon Lull’s Thinking Machine”, Borges 1937
“The World I Live In § XI. Before The Soul Dawn”, Keller 1904
“On the Nature of Things: Book 4: The Senses and Mental Pictures”, Lucretius 2025
On the Nature of Things: Book 4: The Senses and Mental Pictures :
“Sébastien Moro on the Most Insane Things Fish Can Do”, Moro 2025
“The Old Fools”, Larkin 2025
“The Things”
“The Subjective Experience of Time: Welfare Implications”
“The Lie Comes First, the Worlds to Accommodate It”
“Can We Really Be Friends With an Octopus? When Octopuses Are Social, Are They Reaching out or Simply Reacting?”
“Do Large Language Models Understand Us?”
“Is There Suffering in Fundamental Physics?”
“Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?”
Results: The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer? :
“The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer?”
The Computerized Philosopher: Can You Distinguish Daniel Dennett from a Computer? :
“Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind”
Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
“Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences”
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
“How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self”
How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self
“The Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius; against the Fear of Death”, Dryden 2025
The Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius; against the Fear of Death :
“Why Insects Are More Sensitive Than They Seem”
“Banishing Consciousness: the Mystery of Anesthesia”
“David Vetter’s Cognitive Development”
“PRISM: The Function of Phenomenal States: Supramodular Interaction Theory”
PRISM: The Function of Phenomenal States: Supramodular Interaction Theory
“Do Drugs Make Religious Experience Possible? They Did for James and for Other Philosopher-Mystics of His Day. James’s Experiments With Psychoactive Drugs Raise Difficult Questions about Belief and Its Conditions”
“Do Animals Have Feelings?”
“Why Do Most Languages Have So Few Words for Smells?”
“‘Mother’”
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