Why AI Will Never Be Conscious - Anil Seth YouTube video by Alex O'Connor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsi8...

Here’s a way to get an LLM to declare itself a conscious AI (or, sometimes, a conscious human...). The Substack article has more examples and some discussion: aifails.substack.com/p/ai-declari...

#Bewusstseinskultur #Endlichkeitskultur

Sterben lernen: Psychedelika, Meditation und Floatation als Werkzeuge einer säkularen Endlichkeitskultur?

www.leben-und-tod.de

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen:

Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas.

Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.

www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...

Why did childhood summers feel endless? It’s not just nostalgia—your brain was actually experiencing time differently.

“Everything seems new in childhood: the first ride on a pony, the first trip to the circus, the first vacation at the beach—everything is a first,” says Marc Wittmann, author of "Felt Time." “So that causes us to store the memory as something special.”

Great to see this out! Many congratulations @romybeaute.bsky.social 👏🏼👇🏽

"This work establishes a versatile platform for concurrent biosynthesis and diversification of psychoactive indolethylamines, paving the way for their production in plants."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jens Spahn kann bestimmt eine mittelständische Beratungsfirma aus seinem Wahlkreis empfehlen.

@metzinger.bsky.social in Being No One (52) makes Anil's point when he says we're "dreaming vigorously at the world": that waking experience, like a dream, is entirely brain-based phenomenal content but (unlike a dream) is constrained by sensory input, thus tracks the world, thus not hallucinatory.

Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025 Greenhouse gases dropped just 0.1% last year as environment minister criticises lack of improvement

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

And perception is not a controlled hallucination, either -- it's augmented reality! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important news for our Italian colleagues: #PhiMiSci has been recognized as a Class A journal by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) in area 11/C2. We hope this will make #PhiMiSci an even more attractive venue for your work!

Book cover of Bewusstseinskultur: Towards a culture of consciousness: Spirituality, intellectual honesty, and the planetary crisis—how to protect your self-respect and fail gracefully, by Thomas Metzinger

A lot of what Michael Pollan says echoes an earlier (more philosophical) book by Thomas Metzinger. A "consciousness culture" is one of greater awareness and deliberate attention, encompassing both the personal and transpersonal domains of life (I've not yet read Pollan's book).

Trump surrounded by preachers who put their hands on his shoulder and pray for him

Who should object if the US wants to overthrow a fanatically religious system?

Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie Journal of Theology and Philosophy

ztp.jesuiten.org

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

"Heizungsgesetz: Durchmarsch der Gas- und Öl-Lobby. Bild von einer LobbyControl-Aktion vorm Kanzleramt mit einer aufgebauten "Lobby-Pipeline"

Durchmarsch der fossilen Lobby beim „#Heizungsgesetz“: Die Bundesregierung dreht jegliche Ambitionen in Richtung zukunftsfähiges Heizen zurück. Davon profitieren allein diejenigen, die weiter mit Gas und Öl Geschäfte machen wollen. 👇
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

This is absolutely crazy. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

I feel flattered: Michael liked the Chapter One heading of "The Ego Tunnel" quite a lot.

These people are not our friends. They are far right extremists and actively delusional climate change deniers who want to destroy the European Union by promoting the *very same parties that Wladimir Putin is promoting*.

Diplomacy doesn’t work when the other side has the goal to destroy you.

I am very proud of the special issue on „Structuralism in the Science of Consciousness“ that @andrewyuanlee.bsky.social and I edited for @phimisci.bsky.social. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

In the domain of decision making, active inference evaluates actions by how much they reduce expected future prediction error, integrating pragmatic and epistemic value. It predicts information seeking when utilities are equal and that random exploration scales with policy precision.

The Self-Evidencing Agent What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social

Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.

I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...

Yay, finally!

FBI und Microsoft: Microsoft öffnet dem FBI die Tür Microsoft hat Ermittlern Zugriff auf verschlüsselte Daten seiner Kunden verschafft. Und wieder stellt sich die Frage: Sollte man sich auf US-Tech-Firmen verlassen?

www.zeit.de/digital/date...

Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...