Searle’s Chinese Room hides an unnoticed understanding, new paper argues
A new paper argues that Searle's Chinese Room contains an unnoticed inferential gap: the person inside genuinely understands the rule ...
Tag: philosophy of mind
How Integrated Information Theory Became a Scientific Movement and Sparked a Countermovement
A new sociological study argues that the battle over Integrated Information Theory is best understood as a clash between a ...
Swarms of Simple Machines: How Europe’s EMERGE Project Built Awareness Without a Brain
The four-year EIC Pathfinder project EMERGE has concluded, showing that collaborative awareness can emerge from swarms of simple artificial agents ...
Even Human-Like AI Fails the Consciousness Test in Public Minds
A new LMU study published in Cognition finds that people consistently attribute less consciousness to AI than to humans even ...
New Study Puts a Philosophical Theory of Anorexia to the Empirical Test
Researchers have empirically validated a philosophical account of anorexia nervosa, showing that women with the disorder experience their bodies as ...
Could AI Rewrite Its Own Rules? New Theory Says That’s Where Meaning Begins
A new structural theory called informational self-meaning proposes that AI systems could approach genuine consciousness only by reorganising their own ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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