After many years, I've finally returned to writing poetry. I had forgotten how good it feels to search for the right words that rhyme with your subconscious feelings. Do any of you also write poetry or fiction in your spare time?

As a philosopher of consciousness and artificial intelligence, I have found it hard to know where you belong, as Dennett also noted. In scientific circles, and even in other social sciences, I am seen as too philosophical, and in philosophy as too much of a science "fan". Sometimes, it is not easy.

I'm delighted that I've presented at the ICCS "AI and Sentience" conference in Heraklion. I met such an amazing & inspiring people. I hope to experience more conferences like this in the future. I am grateful to Nick Humphrey, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, KINIT, and others for this opportunity.

ChatGPT group "underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" with "weaker neural connectivity and under-engagement." The Google-assisted group had "moderate" neural engagement. The "brain-only" group exhibited the strongest cognitive metrics throughout.

futurism.com/neoscope/bra...

New paper just out by Maxim Gorbachev and me
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If the illusion of PC had an adaptive function for humans, and other animals (e.g. for attention control), it is possible that in the case of AI such an illusion would be weaker, if any, because AI doesn't necessarily need simplified models of its own processes to function more efficiently as we do.

'The illusion of Conscious AI' - new short piece of @bigthink.com bigthink.com/neuropsych/t... (for the longer version, see my Behavioural and Brain Sciences target article, which is now accepting commentary proposals): www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧠

Question: Are there any good papers or interviews where Daniel Dennett expressed his opinions about embodied cognition ?

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times. www.wired.com/story/intell...

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

I am starting to more and more appreciate Dennett's idea of "competence without comprehension" in regards to AI - AI will be even more compentent, but will probably not evolve comprehension (and consciousness as a user-illusion) as humans especially because of no cultural embedding.

Algorithms are like aunties who once heard you liked a thing and then base all future presents on that.

This should be good!

Paradox of tolerance: If a society extends the tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.

Thought: AI will never be conscious as humans are, not because it impossible to develop some form of AI consciousness (in principle), but simply because it would be of a different kind than human consciousness.

A critique of @lovingautomaton.bsky.social's "illusionism" about phenomenal consciousness. He thinks that "phenomenal consciousness" relates to nonphysicality as "wizard" relates to spellcasting. I think it's more like "king" and divine mandate to rule.

schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/03/king...