# Aaron Sloman

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Machine models of consciousness: An ASSC tutorial (part 1)

Last Friday (June 23rd), as part of the 10th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness in Oxford, Igor Aleksander, Murray Shanhan and I jointly offered a tutorial on machine consciousness. I started with a discussion of general philosophical issues, the approach of Aaro…

My conversation with Professor Luc Beaudoin on sleep

2:45  Luc Beaudoin CogSci Apps (https://cogsciapps.com) MySleepButton (https://mysleepbutton.com/home/) Hook (https://hookproductivity.com/about/) CogZest (https://cogzest.com) Cognitive Productivity & Wellbeing Cognitive Science — The interdisciplinary science   4:26: Aar…

Interactive Empiricism: The Philosopher in the Machine

Left to right: Igor Aleksander, Wendy Hall, Ron Chrisley, Nigel Shadbolt. Photo: unknown.On July 11th, 2007, I gave an invited lecture as part of a Royal Academy of Engineering seminar entitled: "AI and IT: Where Philosophy and Engineering Meet", itself a part of their Philosophy of Engineerin…

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#93 Prof. MURRAY SHANAHAN - Consciousness, Embodiment, Language Models

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Professor Murray Shanahan is a renowned researcher on sophisticated cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence. His 2016 article ‘Conscious Exotica’ explores the Space of Possible Minds, a concept first proposed by philosopher Aaron Sloman…

Pygmalion by David C. Smith

If you're anything like Ivan (oof, sorry), you've heard of Pygmalion but never caught more than the gist. Some sort of project from the early 70s, similar to Sketchpad or Smalltalk or something, yet another promising prototype from the early history of our field that failed to take the world by sto…

Prof. Murray Shanahan - Machines Don't Think Like Us

Murray Shanahan is a professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. He challenges our assumptions about AI consciousness and urges us to rethink how we talk about machine intelligence. We explore the dangers of anthropomorphizing AI, the …

Aaron Sloman: What is Life? Information, Intelligence, and the Ineffable within Science

Aaron Sloman is Emeritus/Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour and European C…

Conversation Between Aaron Sloman, Anthony Leggett, Chris Fields, and Michael Levin

This is a ~1 hour talk with Aaron Sloman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sloman), Anthony Leggett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_James_Leggett), and Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/). The links to which Aaron refers are: https://cogaffarchive.org/misc/whatlife.html http…

Remember Jeffrey Epstein’s AI Summit?

Hey Strangers, #jeffreyepstein #ai #tech In 2002, artificial intelligence was still in winter. Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and real-world understanding had not materialized. To look for a way forward, a small group of scientists gathered for “Th…