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Kristina Šekrst

@epiphenomenal.bsky.social

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🥸 Philosopher of AI, mind, and science. Principal software engineer. Crazy cat lady. 🤓 Knows both Python and Ancient Egyptian. 🧙 Author of "The Illusion Engine: The Quest for Machine Consciousness": illusionengine.xyz

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh, it's Searle 1980, and then it's Ashby 1941.

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest issue is the fact that it's just a free data mill.

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing.

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

As a philosopher, I can confirm we don’t know what knowing what thinking is.

Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · 1d

as a philosopher, I can confirm we don't know what thinking is

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d

awesome! 😁 thanks!

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 16d

New episode!! 🎉🎙️

A chat w/ @evoneuro.bsky.social & Georg Striedter about their new book, 'Bird Brains and Behavior.'

Birds do some astonishing things. They sing, fly, migrate, cache food, and hunt in total darkness. How do their brains make all this possible?

Listen: disi.org/brains-of-a-...

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d

this is so amazing!

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d

:throws a bra on the stage:

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d

Me as a researcher: "I’m so sorry, I’m too busy to review this, October is the cruelest month."

Me as an editor: "PLEASE review this. I’m begging. Bribe a friend. Summon a ghost. I’ll take a review written by your Roomba."

#academia #science #academy #philosophy #philsky #philosophysky

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d

Rant: The state of AI consciousness papers: 50% 'ChatGPT told me it has feelings', 40% 'ChatGPT is conscious', and 10% - people who know that "ChatGPT" isn't a model. Could be worse - could be "quantum".

#ai #consciousness #cogsci #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science #llm #academia #quantum

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Tom Marvan 🇪🇺 @tmarvan.bsky.social · 2d

📢 new paper out in PhiMiSci with my man @jakubmihalik.bsky.social

#consci #philsky

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 2d

A new article has been published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism and the science of consciousness: “Neurophenomenal Structuralism as a General Theory of Consciousness?” by Jakub Mihálik and Tomáš Marvan.

Neurophenomenal structuralism as a general theory of consciousness? | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

philosophymindscience.org

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 3d

YES. "State your purpose", I call it. 😁

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

Love that show!

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

Philosophers, what's your top 10 Sight&Sound list? I change mine more than Theseus his ship.

#philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #science #academia #filmsky #filmphilosophy

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

Dammit, I just submitted my proofs (illusionengine.xyz), would have gladly included this! Thanks for sharing 🥰

The Illusion Engine

The Quest for Machine Consciousness

illusionengine.xyz

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 4d

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

authors.elsevier.com

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

Wish I had known about this one before trashtalking the whole field 🤣

illusionengine.xyz 😁

The Illusion Engine

The Quest for Machine Consciousness

illusionengine.xyz

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 4d

On the Biology of Large Language Models is pretty much amazing.

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sorry for your loss. It never disappears. But after a while, it's just happy memories.

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5d

hah, my book on llms is titled "the illusion engine". i kinda stole it from babbage :)

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5d

(□(P → ∃w M(w))) yes, with de re (∃w□M(w)) no, actual prestige can be grounded by merely possible money without requiring necessary existence across worlds. 😅

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5d

We should make prestigious philosophy Nobels in which we award money in possible worlds, because that's a realistic one.

#philosophysky #philosophy #philsky #academia

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not answering a call at 4 PM tbh

Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 5d

And mind-body problem since there are obviously no sane minds, yet...