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A Robotic Bat Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI giant Geoffrey Hinton has proposed that AI might already be emotional. It is an interesting philosophical and practical proposal, qua philosophy of information, philosophy of AI, and philosophy of psychology and emotions. (Yes. Those are all real subdisciplines of contemporary analytic philosophy and philosophy of science.) How would AI emotion work? There are lots of potential ways. It depends upon how one defines the concept [emotions]. It also depends upon what one includes in a neuroscientific and neuro-psychological explanation and conception of emotion. In cognitive neuropsychology there is a prevailing view that emotions are reducible to (or alternatively: supervene upon) just more cognitive information processing spread across sub-personal, neurological systems in the brain - from the limbic system to the motor cortex to the central executive and even the vagus nerve. The multiple realisability thesis for mind proposes that a mind l...

I got tired of all of the free trial social media post and schedule tools that would severely limit my ability to simply post a given image and some text across the social media platforms that I use: Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Substack, Blogger. So I used LLMs to generate a very basic system (which I had to tweak a bit, again using LLMs) which at least prevented me having to copy and paste to each new social media site. TO USE 1. Log in manually to all of the social media sites you want to post to in the same browser window using different tabs. *Required 2. Go to this page . 3. Enter the content in the form fields, and use the post buttons to publish. 4. Go to the auto-opened pages and check and post. YOU NEED AN IMGUR CLIENT ID This is so you don't have to upload your images to this blog, but still don't have to use URLs for images, which approach often fails in social media sites.   Go to imgur  to set up an imgur client ID.  NO TO imgur If you don't wan...