https://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3m63mw5dkyk2ya new paper on mind, computation, and identity in large language models. with inspiration from raymond carver (title) and severance (thought experiments). i'll be talking about this on saturday at the eleos AI conference on AI consciousness and welfare in berkeley. philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-8 https://philpapers.org/rec/CHAWWT-820 Nov 2025 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m63mw5dkyk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3m3nbfx4sdc22claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies! https://www.ted.com/talks/claudia_passos_ferreira_inside_the_mind_of_a_newborn_baby20 Oct 2025 16:47 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3nbfx4sdc22https://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3lqxaz4ptck2ythe long-awaited video recording of the "25 Years of Consciousness" public event at the ASSC conference in NYC in june 2023 has been released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6DHCQZwqnk. i have a few thoughts on the other site (sorry!) at https://x.com/davidchalmers42/status/1931022786123735496.06 Jun 2025 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqxaz4ptck2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3lkll3rwd6s2mwe're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878 https://philjobs.org/job/show/2887817 Mar 2025 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkll3rwd6s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3lgsvi4yp522pa draft paper (for an invited talk at AAAI next month) with a philosophical analysis of work on mechanistic interpretability, with special attention to methods for propositional interpretability. arxiv.org/abs/2501.15740 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.1574028 Jan 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgsvi4yp522phttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3ldmgs7ywsc2othree excellent symposia on my book reality+ have just come out. two are mainly on the simulation hypothesis, one is mainly on VR. for all the articles and replies see http://consc.net/papers/realitysymposia.html.18 Dec 2024 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldmgs7ywsc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3lcnxluguyk26i know X is getting overrun with deepfakes, but this was unexpected. (no, that's not me after the first frame, and i'm not speaking at the 2025 congreso futuro.) https://x.com/congresofuturo/status/186478431057179877606 Dec 2024 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcnxluguyk26https://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3kffzv4uu2f2amy APA presidential address on "does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models" is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand. https://philpapers.org/rec/CHADTR30 Nov 2023 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kffzv4uu2f2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3kepqlxopon2jon X, i asked: who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI? since bluesky is philosopher-heavy, let me also ask here: which philosophers endorse or have expressed sympathy with the hypothesis, or with something nearby?21 Nov 2023 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kepqlxopon2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3kd5od73hho22Neuron Q&A: David J. Chalmers or, a philosopher encounters neuroscience https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(23)00799-7.pdf01 Nov 2023 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd5od73hho22https://bsky.app/profile/davidchalmers.bsky.social/post/3kch6sc5bch2nas a jury member, i'm delighted that this year's berggruen prize for philosophy and culture has been awarded to patricia hill collins. https://berggruen.org/news/usd1-million-berggruen-philosophy-prize-awarded-to-patricia-hill-collins23 Oct 2023 21:48 +0000at://did:plc:b5y3sxjpkhmukvm6vrtbowx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3kch6sc5bch2n