David Chalmers
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philosopher@NYU. consciousness, reality+, life, the universe, and everything.
New York City
Joined July 2009
i guess that makes me the holy ghost.
@No5mallf3at @Philip_Goff what’s being doubted is so-called phenomenal consciousness, a la the NYU trinity (Nagel, Block, Chalmers).
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five excellent talks from the NYU workshop on functions of consciousness last month. speakers: dylan ludwig (who also organized), joshua shepherd (@ERC_Conscious), @MatthiasMichel_, marisa carrasco (@carrasco_lab), and @axelcleeremans.
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NYU Workshop on the Functions of Consciousness. May 12, 2025.
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(on IIT-related controversies.). in the weeks after the "25 years of consciousness" event, some controversy about issues discussed in the event developed, especially tied to the role of integrated information theory (IIT) in the cogitate collaboration. a couple of media articles
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the long-awaited video for the "25 years of consciousness" event at the 2023 ASSC conference has now been posted at this event was framed as a resolution of a 1998 bet between christof koch and me about whether we'd know the neural correlate of.
We're pleased to release a video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the @theASSC conference in New York City on June 23, 2023.
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RT @_TheTransmitter: In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” @pgmid talks with Oscar Ferrante, Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre about putting….
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The trio is part of the adversarial collaboration launched to test various theories of consciousness, a project known as COGITATE.
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seven years after an initial meeting in seattle in march 2018, the results of the @ArcCogitate adversarial collaboration on theories of consciousness have just been published in @Nature. congratulations to the whole cogitate team!
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Nature - Multimodal results (iEEG, fMRI and MEG) of predictions from integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory align with some predictions of both theories on visual...
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passing a five-minute turing test, even with non-expert judges, is a nice milestone. to get further toward what turing really wanted, which is behavioral indistinguishability from humans, we'll need longer tests with expert judges.
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a nice result, but the title should have been "large language models pass a five-minute turing test".
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We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations. Participants had 5 minute...
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we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30!
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an excellent @ScienceMagazine article on pre-natal consciousness, based on the recent NYU conference on infant consciousness. featuring thoughts from @cpassosf, @LorinaNaci, and others, with a cameo role for our survey of views on infant consciousness.
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Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
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the conference on infant consciousness at NYU this friday-saturday is going to be great. if you can't attend in person, there will be a live stream.
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Sponsors: The NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU and the NYU Center for Bioethics
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try an original-style three-player turing test online!.
We've relaunched @turingtestlive with a 3-party format where you speak to a human and an LLM at the same time. See if you can tell the difference between a human and an AI here:
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a draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability.
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Mechanistic interpretability is the program of explaining what AI systems are doing in terms of their internal mechanisms. I analyze some aspects of the program, along with setting out some...
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a workshop focused on my work in philosophy and cognitive science, arranged by @SEFA_Filosofia (the spanish society for analytic philosophy), on tenerife in the canary islands, june 25-27 this year. submissions are welcome!.
Save the date!!!. XXXII SIUCC. Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science.David Chalmers @davidchalmers42.La Laguna, June 25-27, 2025. Extended drafts or long abstracts (not less than 900 words) should be sent to siuccxxxii@gmail.com before February 2th, 2025.
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first ever meeting of the society for philosophy and neuroscience, coming up may 1-3 in st louis!.
😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 & then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for details:
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RT @cpassosf: The deadline for abstract submissions for the NYU conference on infant consciousness is this Friday, December 20th. If you wo….
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three excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out, two mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one mainly on VR. contributors include @pgodfreysmith @eschwitz @DrSueSchneider @JorgNoller and others offline. for the articles and replies see
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