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Shorter pieces on the questions readers keep sending — the hard problem, brain
development, and what would actually count as evidence of machine experience.
development, and what would actually count as evidence of machine experience.
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What the hard problem is actually asking
The question is sharper than the slogan suggests, and answering the sharp version is more tractable than people assume.
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Why adolescence is the interesting part
Most accounts of development stop at infancy. The self that has to live with itself gets built much later.
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Three tests for machine experience
If consciousness is physical, we can specify what to look for. Here is what I would check, and in what order.
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