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I forgot what I'd done with my boomerang, but then it hit me.

But you need sensors and a body you can control to pass this test.

What makes something "human" rather than "machine"? According to physicalism, humans are machines--very complex ones, but still...

Not claiming there is universal consensus in biology (or that I have any expertise to judge) but not hard to find examples in the...

This argument can be much stronger if one were to consider free-living single cells, rather than those that are part of a larger...

One could make a similar argument about humans--our brains are just physical systems running according to physical laws, after all. No...

My first experience with a boomerang involved a Christmas gift for my boy. We took it outside to try it. I read the instructions, which...

That's a hard sell to the family of a guy who got decapitated when his self-driving car drove under a truck it thought was a cloud.

Yes, we do. That simply is not the case. All of those things are currently being done and hallucinations not only persist, there is some...

Sure. The debate is more about whether the word “agency” should be used to describe that. I am just saying that these words (agency and...

If "AGI" in the form of LLMs is a threat, I don't think it's because it understands anything. I think it's because there will be humans...

As anyone who has written a book report for school based on Cliff's Notes can tell you, being able to produce plausible-sounding text on...

I think this is a vast overstatement. It "knows" what's in its training data. But its training data still falls far, far short of...

A creature can have agency, in the sense that its actions have clear and highly non-random relationships to its circumstances and to...