The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence systems presents unprecedented challenges for ethical frameworks, particularly for utilitarian and consequentialist approaches that have long dominated discussions...
As of November 2025, the world is at a critical inflection point in the attention economy: billions of users remain tethered to designed-to-be addictive...
The notion that consciousness pervades all of nature might seem like a relic of pre-scientific thinking, yet panpsychism—the view that mentality is a fundamental...
Analysis and Summary of John Ashmead’s “How Many Universes Are There, Anyway?”Balticon Presentation, May 23rd, 2015
Summary
John Ashmead’s presentation at Balticon 2015, titled How Many...
By Kevin Parkerwith full credit to Dr. Antoine Suarez, Center for Quantum Philosophy, Zurich and Geneva
Introduction
In his 2018 presentation “Future Contingents and the Multiverse,”...
Is a machine capable of independent consciousness, or is consciousness an exclusively biological phenomenon? This question has moved from science fiction into serious interdisciplinary...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often discussed in terms of data, algorithms, and logic – a thoroughly material domain. Yet the provocative statement “AI is...
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