Category: Identifying Sentience
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A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
》…cuttlefish also passed a version of the marshmallow test. Scientists showed that common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) can refrain from eating a meal of crab meat in the morning once they have learnt dinner will be something they like much better – shrimp. Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children
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An academic survey on theoretical foundations, common assumptions and the current state of the field of consciousness science
“sentience” vs “consciousness” Sentience Source: https://psyarxiv.com/8mbsk/
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Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware, By Susan Schneider
First, ethicists worry that it would be wrong to force AIs to serve us if they can suffer and feel a range of emotions. Second, consciousness could make AIs volatile or unpredictable, raising safety concerns (or conversely, it could increase an AI’s empathy; based on its own subjective experiences, it might recognize consciousness in us…
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One woman is entirely insensitive to physical pain
One woman is entirely insensitive to physical pain and has no palpable negative emotions. Joanne Cameron experiences suffering mostly as “an abstract thing.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-without-pain
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Types of suffering based on their uncertainty
The following is a list of types of suffering organized according to their uncertainty. 1. Suffering well reported. In this case, the suffering being is typically an adult human who survives to the negative experience and can describe it. Large burned; suffering by fires, plane crashes, explosions, bombings… (suffering by hot) Individuals suffering cold and…
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The neuroscience of pain
In 2013, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, took the logical next step by creating an algorithm that could recognize pain’s distinctive patterns; today, it can pick out brains in pain with more than ninety-five-per-cent accuracy. When the algorithm is asked to sort activation maps by apparent intensity, its ranking matches…
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How to demonstrate sentience?
In this short piece, Manu Herrán sumarizes two sets of proposals to address the problem of sentience, three mechanisms to show if an individual feels (the resemblance, the best possible explanation and Phenomenal Puzzles) and two ways to check if a theory of sentience is correct or not. “It is common to ask: how can…
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A Solution to the Problem of Other Minds Using Mindmelding and Phenomenal Puzzles
Andrés Gómez Emilsson from Qualia Research Institute has proposed a method (or method framework) to determine if an individual feels: A Solution to the Problem of Other Minds Using Mindmelding and Phenomenal Puzzles. (Video) .