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Machine Dreams - Dreaming Machines

Artificial Intelligence provides a conceptual framework to understand mind and universe in new ways, clearing the obstacles that hindered the progress of philosophy and psychology. Let us see how AI can help us to understand how our minds create the experience of a universe.

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness

The question: “Who are we?”: — How does our mind work, and how does it relate to the universe? — is the most fascinating riddle we humans can ask ourselves. I believe that the field of Artificial Intelligence can give us unique answers.

From elementary computation to ethics?

Some preliminary thoughts and arguments on the feasibility of ultimate norms, starting from a foundation of general computationalism

Do we live in a simulation or in the base reality?

Elon Musk recently suggested that we likely do not live in a base reality, but in a simulation. He even puts the probability at a billion to one. Is he correct?

How to build an artificially intelligent plant

Ever wondered how to infuse an ordinary houseplant with some intelligence, while keeping its personality?

On Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky has passed away from us last night. Nobody else in the 20th century has influenced our work and our way of looking at what makes us human like Marvin did.

No, the Universe is not a Brain

Could the structure the universe support brain-like activities at interplanetary distances?

Computational Meta-Psychology

Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love?

Why I don’t think that Quantum Computers will work, ever

I have a nagging suspicion that we misinterpret quantum mechanics. I am probably wrong, but I believe that quantum computers may always be outperformed by classical algorithms.

Four Gods

Atheists and enlightened religious people often talk past each other, because they associate quite different concepts with 'God'. Let us attempt to sort them.