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My paper got published in Synthese! 🥲

“Inspired by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics of monads, I will focus on a relational explanation of how simple subjects could constitute complex experiences, without them having to combine in virtue of their subjectivity. I call this view monadic panpsychism.”

You can download it for free here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0

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“All microsubjects featuring in the relevant structure relationally determine the phenomenal character of only one microsubject in a way that gives it a full human experience. […] The relevant relational structure is whatever is minimally necessary to produce my current conscious experience at any given time…”

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0

Fighting bots is fighting humans.

One advantage to working on freely-licensed projects for over a decade is that I was forced to grapple with this decision far before mass scraping for AI training.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAccess

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