This one is about what a mind is…
Peter Godfrey-Smith is Professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, and taught previously at Stanford, Harvard, and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Other Minds, Metazoa, and Living on Earth. His Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection won the Lakatos Award in 2010.
Something like two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons are outside its central brain, in the arms
What a severed octopus arm can still do, and what a severed human arm can’t
Peter on viruses: “Is a virus alive? I think the right response to that question is: It’s not a good question.”
Why he expects the concept of mind to go the way the concept of life already went
Where he parts ways with Stanislas Dehaene on how much you can be conscious of at once
Anthropic’s global-workspace finding inside Claude, and what Dehaene made of it
Chalmers, in Reality+, gives the simulation hypothesis at least 25%. Peter thinks that is much too high.
I proposed…
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