a new paper on mind, computation, and identity in large language models. with inspiration from raymond carver (title) and severance (thought experiments). i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley. philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8

claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!

the long-awaited video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in NYC in june 2023 has been released: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DH.... i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at x.com/davidchalmer....

we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878

a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability. arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740

three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out. two are mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one is mainly on VR. for all the articles and replies see consc.net/papers/reali....

i know X is getting overrun with deepfakes, but this was unexpected. (no, that's not me after the first frame, and i'm not speaking at the 2025 congreso futuro.) x.com/congresofutu...

my APA presidential address on "does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models" is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand.

on X, i asked: who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI? since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?

Neuron Q&A: David J. Chalmers or, a philosopher encounters neuroscience www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S...

as a jury member, i'm delighted that this year's berggruen prize for philosophy and culture has been awarded to patricia hill collins.