Eric Schwitzgebel

Today's blog post: Backup and Death for Humanlike AI If AI persons capable of duplication and backup ever come to exist, we will need to develop new words, concepts, and customs. "Death" and "same person" will be a matter of degree. schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/03/backup…

Age and Fame in Philosophy Philosophers tend to peak in their influence around ages 55-70, though there's considerable individual variation. Blog post here: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/03/age-an…

@Johnny2Fingersz No!

@eschwitz It is beyond recovery

Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least The productive engine of philosophy depends on novelty and difference. A fair and flourishing discipline would treasure rather than repel those who have historically been excluded schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/03/philos…

@almeida2808 @dioscuri I confess I’ve stopped reading them! But often the issue arises.

@eschwitz @dioscuri Are they as interesting as this one? For instance: do they report having/lacking first-person experience?

I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces. This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.

13 A Planning Theory of Incoherence in Belief: Sara Aronowitz 14 The Nature of Believing: David Hunter 15 The Trinity and the Light Switch: Two Faces of Belief: Neil Van Leeuwen 4/4

9 Cognitive Architectures, Kinds, and Belief: Joshua Mugg 10 Belief as a Feeling of Conviction: Declan Smithies 11 Translucent Beliefs: Bence Nanay 12 Dispositionalism, Yay! Representationalism, Boo! Eric Schwitzgebel 3/

New and free online: @jontweetshere & my edited collection of essays on belief with @OUPAcademic Table of Contents in thread

1 Three Theories of Belief: D A King and Aaron Zimmerman 2 Beliefs as Self-Verifying Fictions: Angela Mendelovici 3 Lack of Attitude: Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas 4 In Defense of Ontic Austerity for Belief: Ema Sullivan-Bissett 1/

Today's blog post: Discussion Arcs for Topics and Philosophers schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/02/discus…

Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness (and Maybe in Human Consciousness Too) blog post: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/02/disuni…

Today's blog post: The Intrinsic Value of Diversity I think you'll join me in thinking that the world would be better, better for its own sake, if it were diverse rather than uniform. schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-in… Oh, some of you disagree? Good!

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assumptions of broad capacities beyond that task domain. faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/Schw… 6/6

will sometimes fail in seemingly obvious tasks. On a nonlinear model of AI intelligence, such errors on their own do not demonstrate a system's lack of outstanding general intelligence. Conversely, excellent performance on one type of task, such as an IQ test, cannot warrant 5/6

New paper in draft with @kendrachilson: Artificial Intelligence as Strange Intelligence: Against Linear Models of Intelligence Abstract: We endorse and expand upon Susan Schneider's critique of the linear model of AI progress and introduce two novel concepts: 1/x