Abstract: Logic and Rationality; Disagreement and Evidence – Greg Restall

See the slides for the presentation here:
See the slides for the presentation here:
About For Future Day 2025, James Barrat discussed his up and coming book ‘The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything’ (Amazon link, Google Book link) which is expected to be released June 10, and also another up and coming book on AI-weapons (see video below). In a thought-provoking discussion, James Barrett, author of…
Yes, you may notice that the website looks quote different from the old site. It was just getting difficult to manage content, and the theme was a bit dark, and did not work all that well in portable devices… in any case, feel free to ping me to let me know if you like aspects…
🧠 AI consciousness: myth, reality, or an emergent inevitability? 🧠 What is the ontological relationship between the mind and brain? 🧠 Will EMs be conscious or will they be digital zombies? Future Day 2025 Panelists: Ken Mogi, Ben Goertzel & Robin Hanson Panelists discuss the philosophical question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) could ever achieve…
The demarcation problem in the philosophy of science is about how to distinguish between science and nonscience, including between science, pseudoscience, other activities, and beliefs. The debate continues after over a century of dialogue among philosophers of science and scientists in various fields, and despite broad agreement on the basics of scientific method. For Popper,…
Filmed at EA Global Melbourne 2015 Slides of talk are here Kerry Vaughan discusses: What is effective altruism? what is it’s history? what isn’t EA? and how to succeed at being an effective altruist. Approaches to doing good include: – Being Skeptical – using the case study of play pumps in africa – hoping to…
Do LLMs have metacognition? What happens when machines begin to “think about thinking”? At Future Day 2025, we hosted an in-depth discussion on metacognition in large language models (LLMs) – with insights from researcher Shun Yoshizawa, supervised by neuroscientist Dr Ken Mogi at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Together, we explored the current state of metacognitive…