Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\nThe topic of these talks is the Global Brain Hypothesis, according to which, in the near future, humans will become nodes in a distributed information processing network implemented through AI technologies. On this view, the AI ecosystem will feature \u2018Emergent hyperintelligences\u2019 arising from \u2018megasystems\u2019 of AI services. Humans, as users of AI services, are \u201cnodes\u201d in a larger algorithmic system that I call the computronium.\u00a0 Eventually, parts of the system, fuelled by advancing generative models, global sensor systems, extensive amounts of users and data (including from brain-machine interfaces), become a \u2018Global Brain system\u2019. There may be several global brain systems competing for power (a multipolar system), two foes (a bipolar system), or a single hegemonic Global brain system. This hypothesis has unexplored philosophical implications in a wide range of areas, including: the extended mind, the nature of knowledge, chatbot \u2018epistemology\u2019, sentience (is the global brain conscious?), the metaphysics of the part\/whole relationship of human nodes and how they relate to the computronium and global brain, and ethical considerations relating to the global brain\u2014how to avoid a dystopia, ways the algorithms manipulate humans and what to do about it.<\/p>\n
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Lecture I<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Global Brain Argument: Nodes, Computroniums and the AI Megasystem<\/strong><\/p>\n25 June 2024<\/p>\n
16:00 (WET)<\/p>\n
Anfiteatro II<\/p>\n
Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon<\/p>\n
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Lecture II<\/strong><\/p>\nIllusory World Scepticism and the Simulation Argument<\/b><\/p>\n
27 June 2024<\/p>\n
16:00 (WET)<\/p>\n
Anfiteatro II<\/p>\n
Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon<\/p>\n
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Free Attendance. No registration required. All welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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