aishik
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aishik
@xcellect
research engineer channeling consciousness to turing machines // security engineer @nsgov // prev. cto/cofounder @spiralworks_ai, swe @ibm




Join us, if you will, for the MIT Consciousness Club. Tomorrow, March 19th at noon. "Linking Past and Present Worlds in the Visual Control of Behaviour" Melvyn Goodale (Department of Psychology, Western University) Zoom link here: sites.google.com/view/mit-consc… #neuroscience



Join us at the @RealAAAI Spring Symposium to discuss one of the most difficult and interdisciplinary subject in light of recent advances in AI: machine consciousness. Over two and a half days, the symposium will explore various approaches through keynote talks, selected presentations, and structured discussions that explicitly connect the different domains. Speakers: April 7–9, 2026 Burlingame, California Registration link below. @kanair @MiTiBennett @alltbl @ArayaGlobal





🧵1/4 The debate over AI sentience is caught in an "AI welfare trap." My new preprint argues computational functionalism rests on a category error: the Abstraction Fallacy. AI can simulate consciousness, but cannot instantiate it. philpapers.org/rec/LERTAF













