How our understanding of valence, qualia, and binding determines the long-term future Most people think the future will be shaped by AI or energy. Andrés Gómez Emilsson argues it will be shaped by how we define feeling. As a co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), Andrés has spent years pioneering a “topological” approach to…
Can philosophical zombies be philosophical? Preamble There are various takes on what a p-zombie is, most of which were attempts to dethrone physicalism – this article isn’t one of those. This kind of p-zombie is different from what David Chalmers describes in The Consciousness Mind. In Chalmers view, p-zombies are physiologically identical to humans, even…
Something I find attractive about moral realism, is that because ethical propositions (propositions contained in ethical sentences) refer to facts about actual reality (physical and/or logical), these facts should then be amenable to testing. This means that the landscape on which to judge moral aptness gets clearer and clearer the more we understand the…