consciousness Archives - LIEFFIE https://lieffie.com/tag/consciousness/ Digital News and Development Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:12:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://lieffie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-to-help-ais-understand-the-world-researchers-put-them-in-a-robot-32x32.jpg consciousness Archives - LIEFFIE https://lieffie.com/tag/consciousness/ 32 32 Werner Herzog muses on mysteries of the brain in Theater of Thought https://lieffie.com/digital-news/werner-herzog-muses-on-mysteries-of-the-brain-in-theater-of-thought/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:12:44 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/werner-herzog-muses-on-mysteries-of-the-brain-in-theater-of-thought/ That mind is partly revealed through Herzog’s running narration, such as when he muses about collective behavior and whether fish have souls—a digression...

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]]> How should we treat beings that might be sentient? https://lieffie.com/digital-news/how-should-we-treat-beings-that-might-be-sentient/ Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:07:52 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/how-should-we-treat-beings-that-might-be-sentient/ What’s needed, Birch argues, when faced with such staggering uncertainty about the sentience stature of other beings, is a precautionary framework that outlines...

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]]> Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics? https://lieffie.com/digital-news/is-ai-welfare-the-new-frontier-in-ethics/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:51:54 +0000 https://lieffie.com/digital-news/is-ai-welfare-the-new-frontier-in-ethics/ The researchers propose that companies could adapt the “marker method” that some researchers use to assess consciousness in animals—looking for specific indicators that...

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