# dawkins (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dawkins. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Philosophical Autopsy of Anthropic's Latest Paper and Recommendations For How to Read It](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/an-autopsy-of-anthropics-latest-paper) _2026-08-19 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ This is the first post in a series I’m trying out, preliminarily called an ‘autopsy’ of AI lab research papers and other documents related to all things minds in the AI space ## [The Project](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/the-project) _2026-08-15 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ how insight becomes just one more thing to get right ## [Who Cultivates Attention?](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/who-cultivates-attention) _2026-08-13 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ On mindfulness, presence, and the self that thinks it's in charge ## [Resisting Zuckerberg's Superintelligent World](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/resisting-zuckerbergs-superintelligent) _2026-08-12 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ and what true empowerment looks like in an AI saturated world ## [AI-Use And Its Effects on Human Flourishing](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/ai-use-and-its-effects-on-human-flourishing) _2026-08-12 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Hi All, ## [Systems, Self and No-Self](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/systems-self-and-no-self) _2026-08-08 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ A Glossary of Terms ## [Your Brain Is Not An Autocomplete System: idea atrophy and creativity in the Age of AI](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/is-the-brain-an-llm-ai-creativity-myth) _2026-08-05 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ I’ve spent almost a decade now thinking about the nature of human thought. ## [July 26' Monthly Roundup](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/july-26-monthly-roundup-up) _2026-07-29 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Welcome to the July 26’ roundup! ## [The Reader Who Stopped Seeking](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/the-reader-who-stopped-seeking) _2026-07-22 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ A correspondence, over the course of about a year, with a reader named Kate. ## [Analytic Philosophy Has a Monopoly on the AI Consciousness Debate. That's A Problem](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/analytic-philosophy-has-a-monopoly) _2026-07-22 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ What recent responses to Ted Chiang's Atlantic article teach us about the AI-consciousness space ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/V96OUP0dlKyI) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [What AI Labs Won't Tell You About Machine Consciousness](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/ai-consciousness-functionalism-hidden-assumption) _2026-07-20 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Every argument for machine consciousness assumes functionalism. Nobody's saying so. Here's why that matters. ## [Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 2)](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/anthropic-j-space-mind-global-workspace-theory-critique) _2026-07-15 · AI's Without Minds_ The paper's findings are real. The claim that they say anything about minds rests on a philosophical framework the paper itself admits doesn't hold ## [How Can Someone like Dawkins End Up Believing His AI Was Conscious?](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/dawkins-claude-conscious-ai-consciousness-philosophy-mind) _2026-07-15 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ The framework that licenses AI minds has been around for decades. LLMs just made the framework obvious ## [The Late Arrival](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/the-late-arrival) _2026-07-14 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ In my last essay, The Complexity of Memory, I showed that a memory retrieved intact and a wholly fabricated one can feel the same, with the same sense of pastness, the same sense of ownership, inspiring the same level of confidence—not only confidence in the supposed facts of the event, fabricated or not, but also confidence that a single unified “myself” has persisted through the hiatus between… ## [Anthropic Found Something Real: Then They Called It Consciousness (Part 1)](https://ellennoraburns.substack.com/p/a-philosophers-take-on-anthropics) _2026-07-11 · Ellen Burns, PhD · AI's Without Minds_ Why It's Findings Have Nothing to Do with Global Workspace Theory ## [The Complexity of Memory](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/the-complexity-of-memory) _2026-07-05 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ How recall produces the sense of an abiding self ## [A Conversation. Pierce Salguero and Robert Saltzman.](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/a-conversation-pierce-salguero-and) _2026-07-01 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ Not the best quality recording, but a conversation worth hearing, I think. ## [No View from Outside](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/no-view-from-outside) _2026-06-28 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ Tim Miller has written a review of the Depending On No-Thing audiobook. ## [The Price Few Will Pay](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/the-price-few-will-pay) _2026-06-22 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ “All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.” ## [Identity and the Unborn](https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/identity-and-the-unborn) _2026-06-19 · Robert Saltzman · The Ten Thousand Things_ The Radiant Field: ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9UXg2Fg3m1wO) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Tankers in the Jungle](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/tankers-in-the-jungle) _2026-06-08 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ A return to Panama, aboard the Sea Cloud Spirit ## [Richard Dawkins is coming to Australia and New Zealand](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-is-coming-to-australia) _2026-03-31 · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ 50 Years of The Selfish Gene. One final tour. ## [Natural Selection’s Illusion of Design](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/natural-selections-illusion-of-design) _2025-10-09 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from the Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea. ## [But is it true? (Let’s hear it for reality)](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/but-is-it-true-lets-hear-it-for-reality) _2025-10-09 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ Tom Holland’s book Dominion is much touted these days by those proclaiming a “Christian revival”. ## [Why Can’t All Animals Fly? | The Truth about Evolution of Flight](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/why-cant-all-animals-fly-the-truth) _2025-09-28 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from South Korea’s Great Minds program. ## [Is the Blue Mosque an extended phenotype?](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/is-the-blue-mosque-an-extended-phenotype) _2025-09-24 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ I enjoy fielding questions after a public lecture. ## [Why Ideas Spread Like Viruses](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/why-ideas-spread-like-viruses) _2025-09-14 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard joins a live audience in Edinburgh to discuss his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. ## [The shockingly simple idea behind all life.](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/the-shockingly-simple-idea-behind) _2025-08-15 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ (2012) Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea ## [Can We Still Be Optimistic About the Future? | A Conversation with Steven Pinker](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/can-we-still-be-optimistic-about) _2025-07-19 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ Read more ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sltNviz24xke) _2025-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [What It Is Like To Debate Jordan Peterson｜A Conversation with Nihal Arthanayake](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/what-it-is-like-to-debate-jordan) _2025-07-11 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins joins Nihal Arthanayake for a compelling conversation in London, England