Image shows ethics panel presenting at symposium. There is one man at the podium on the right side of the image, speaking into the microphone. There are two people seated at the table, one man and one woman. There is one woman participating online/Zoom whose image is behind the seated panelists on the wall.

Wow! Intriguing issue about whether consent to upload previously collected data for LLM analysis was obtained brought up at the #Ethics Panel with @mainomenous.bsky.social, #ChrisKoenig faculty.sfsu.edu/~cjkoenig, # SepidahModrek faculty.sfsu.edu/~smodrek, and #ZainabAgha cs.sfsu.edu/people/zaina...

In addition to conceptualizing AI and offering a regulatory framework, the paper discusses the critical components of attention, arguing that attention requires interests. "Interests" have gone out of fashion in philosophy of mind, but we make the case for their centrality. The paper is open access!

In hyping up the potential future capacities of AI we are losing track of what it means for us now, losing the chance to best make use of its power. Should AI companies be able to extract from the collective without compensation? Should users be able to use the collective without acknowledgement?...

Do you ever wish you had a tool that would allow you to combine your mind with others? In this *just published* paper @mainomenous.bsky.social and I argue that AI is a tool that enables collective attention, rejecting the idea that it is a standalone agent + philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Are There Empathic Solutions to Artificial Intelligence Problems? We need to think more carefully about how to regulate and control artificial intelligence.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theo...

Are There Empathic Solutions to Artificial Intelligence Problems? We need to think more carefully about how to regulate and control artificial intelligence.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theo...

Great interview with Carlos Montemayor about his new book. The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: Agency and Value Alignment.

The Future of Human Attention in the Age of AI YouTube video by Digital Humanities Consortium @ CPP

If you're interested in AI and questions of how it's changing the way we think, focus, and learn, make sure to watch the recording of Carlos Montemayor's (@mainomenous.bsky.social) talk, Cultivating Attention in the Age of AI!

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

Join us IRL at Cal Poly Pomona or in Zoomsville on Monday 9/29 (10am PST) to discuss "Cultivating Attention in the Age of AI" with @mainomenous.bsky.social!

Register here: bit.ly/ai-dhc

#AI #Attention #AIandSociety #DigitalHumanities #Philosophy #CalPolyPomona

Conscious Attention as Agency The subjective privacy of consciousness is insufficient to explain how we coordinate action. We succeed at action-coordination because we jointly attend to the world.

Conscious Attention as Agency | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theo...

A big thank you to our fantastic speakers — Nicky Clayton, Azenet Lopez, and Carlos Montemayor ( @mainomenous.bsky.social ) — for making our #ASSC28 symposium "Foundations of Animal Consciousness: Beyond Apes" such a success. Thanks to everyone at @assc28.bsky.social for the great conversations!

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Great workshop taking place tomorrow at TU/e, with a keynote from Carlos Montemayor - @mainomenous.bsky.social 👇👇

#philsky #philAI

Thanks Patrick. It is really sad.

My dear friend and collaborator Abrol Fairweather passeed away. Here is the news item from SF State including an obituary I wrote:
philosophy.sfsu.edu/news/loving-...

In my opinion, as far as cluster concepts go, "consciousness" is a messier concept than "attention." But I think we need to talk about this from both an empirical and theoretical point of view.

Thanks Tuomas. I think that even if attention turns out to be a cluster concept, it is still useful in thinking about different cognitive functions, some of which might be more essential for consciousness than others.

New publication with Azenet Lopez on the difference between consciousness and attention within the Integrated Information Theory. We believe that analyzing this issue across views can help us advance the debate on the nature of consciousness:

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#consciousness #attention #information

The Prospect of a Humanitarian Artificial Intelligence: a conversation with Carlos Montemayor YouTube video by Overthink Podcast

I am grateful to my friend and colleague David Peña-Guzmán for this interview at the wonderful Overthink Podcast! It was great to be able to expand on some of the key points of my book on AI with such a nice and intelligent interlocutor.
#AI
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Thanks Jeremy! I wish this had happened before but better late than never.

Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time "Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time" published on 28 Sep 2012 by Brill.

My book on time perception, which examines the classic findings on psychological clocks and simultaneity windows from a philosophical point of view, is now available as open access:
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