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Check out my book Being You, and my prize-winning essay The Mythology of Conscious AI.
Children have utterly let down to date. But what does a ‘social media ban’ actually mean? Is this really age verification for all? And what does that entail? Because on the surface this looks like rushed populist techsolutionism that will hand *more* power to the platforms.
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻??
Biological systems unlike computers, but what does that mean?
Join us in Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon discussion with Romain Brette of his great book.
July 9, noon (USA-EST)
https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/E950yS0bRRC_6X6EfVONtA
Open to all; registration required.
1/ I was deeply saddened to hear that Inman Harvey has died. He was a wonderful and generous person, and an unparalleled intellect (his schoolfriend Geoff Hinton said that "he was always smarter than me"). This heartfelt obituary is by Phil Husbands: https://users.sussex.ac.uk/~philh/pubs/InmanHarveyObit.pdf