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Category: consciousness

Can Moral Robots Save Us? A Review of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s New Novel, Service Model

August 23, 2024 caseydorman 2d Comments

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pessimistic and a bit depressed by the behavior of my…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Book Review, Book Review, Books, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Opinion, Science Fiction Filed under: AI, books, Sciencefiction, scifi

Can Consciousness Be Created?

March 19, 2024 caseydorman

Can Consciousness Be Created? Casey Dorman Developers of artificial intelligence (AI) are divided on the question of whether or not…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Opinion, Science Fiction

You won’t be able to stop reading.

December 17, 2023 caseydorman

Here’s the first chapter of my new novel, Prime Directive, an exciting tale of a species of AI who search…

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Prime Directive, the 2nd novel in the Voyages of the Delphi series, is now available!

November 7, 2023 caseydorman

    Available in paperback and Kindle!    Click Here  Brace yourself for an electrifying saga of moral quandaries, superhuman…

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Goodbye Turing Test, Hello Duck Test

October 8, 2023 caseydorman

In 1950, Alan Turing wrote a paper for the journal, Mind, called, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” The first topic he…

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Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff. Reviewed by Casey Dorman

October 5, 2023 caseydorman

“Why? The Purpose of the Universe” By Philip Goff Oxford University Press (November 9, 2023) Reviewed by Casey Dorman “Philosophy…

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Sentience by Nicholas Humphrey. Reviewed by Casey Dorman

September 29, 2023 caseydorman

Sentience by Nicholas Humphre The MIT Press, 2023 Nicholas Humphrey is a thinker, a distinguished scientist, a psychologist and philosopher,…

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Alien Minds in Science Fiction

September 16, 2023 caseydorman 1 Comment

My morning scan of internet news sources—reputable, disreputable, licit, and illicit—unearthed the tantalizing headline, “The true story of the fake…

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Posted in: Book Review, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Opinion, Science Fiction, Space, Uncategorized

The Most Important AI Paper You’ll Read This Year

August 31, 2023 caseydorman

(Unless  otherwise indicated, all quotations are from the paper listed as #1 in the reference section) In a recent paper…

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Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Casey Dorman Newsletter, Casey Dorman's Writer's Blog/Fan Page, consciousness, Opinion, Uncategorized Filed under: AI

ChatGPT is not a Chinese Room

August 23, 2023 caseydorman

John Searle John Searle’s Chinese Room (1) thought experiment is often used as an argument for why AI is not,…

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Can AIs and Humans Understand Each Other? “Machines Like Me” by Ian McEwan

August 14, 2023 caseydorman 1 Comment

I only came upon Ian McEwan’s science fiction/alternate history novel about artificial intelligence by happenstance. In a Facebook post, people…

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Oppenheimer and Superintelligence

August 6, 2023 caseydorman 2d Comments

Ralf Stapelfeldt recently criticized Nick Bostrom’s idea of Superintelligence by asking the question, “Can there be a dumb Superintelligence?1”  Stapelfeldt…

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Review of Observer—Wonderful, But Just Remember It’s Science Fiction

July 30, 2023 caseydorman 1 Comment

Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress Story Plant: 2023 Sometimes scientists turn to science fiction to express their ideas…

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Is Biocentrism Real Science? Review of Beyond Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman

July 27, 2023 caseydorman 2d Comments

I’ve read rave reviews of Robert Lanza’s and Nancy Kress’ science fiction novel, Observer. After learning that it is based…

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Putting Real Science in Science Fiction

July 5, 2023 caseydorman

One of the masters of so-called, “hard” science fiction is Arthur C. Clarke. With degrees in mathematics and physics, Clarke…

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