Passos, Montemayor, Mindt: Do Animals, Infants, and AI Have Consciousness?

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_YMcEPfqCM Sponsors: - Manscaped: Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code [TOE] at Manscaped.com. - Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off Claudia Passos is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics at NYU studying infant consciousness, Garrett Mindt is a professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University focused on novel information-theoretic metaphysics, and Carlos Montemayor is a professor of philosophy whose research focuses on the intersection between philosophy of mind, epistemology and cognitive science. This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org. - *New* TOE Website (early access to episodes): https://theoriesofeverything.org/ - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast... - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b9... - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeveryt... TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:56 How aware are infants? 00:08:36 Correlates of consciousness 00:11:16 Trauma in infants 00:17:00 Traditional definitions of consciousness 00:22:05 Animal consciousness 00:26:05 Phenomenal consciousness 00:35:37 “You can't be intelligent if you are not autonomous” 00:37:00 Asymmetric moral considerations 00:41:00 Agency needs vulnerability to work 00:43:20 The borders between biology and machine 00:46:00 Building "mini brains"! 00:58:40 Behavioral markers of consciousness 01:00:10 Should AI be given the same ethical consideration as our human children? 01:05:16 Do infants lack moral standing? 01:08:14 Is analogue consciousness relevant? 01:14:06 What do we mean by “autonomy”? 01:19:00 Outro

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