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David Chalmers
philosopher · 5 mentions across 2 readings
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David Chalmers is a philosopher best known for formulating the "hard problem of consciousness"—the question of why and how physical processes give rise to subjective experience—a foundational concern for understanding artificial minds and machine learning systems that claim to process information without phenomenal awareness. His work appears in this course's framework as a reference point for debates about whether AI systems possess genuine understanding or consciousness, which complicates claims about the transformative power of algorithmically-generated art and the ethics of control systems. The readings invoke Chalmers implicitly when questioning whether machine learning tools can be truly "evocative" or merely simulate meaning without inner experience.
Mentioned in 2 readings
that we arrive at the point of raising the question how to make the One into something that holds up, that is, that is counted without being. Mathematization alone reaches a real [...] a real that has nothing to do with what traditional kno…Vinge, V. (1993) The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Lewis Research Center, Vision 21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace: pp. 11–22.
Žižek, S. (2020) Sex and the Fail…
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