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The Current Science of Animal Emotions
Artifical General Intelligence

The Current Science of Animal Emotions

Posted on June 8, 2021July 19, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In a past post, I argued that our best current theory on animal qualia was that animals did feel qualia. In a later post, I…

Pain is Not Suffering
Artifical General Intelligence

Pain is Not Suffering

Posted on April 29, 2021July 19, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Temple Grandin, in her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, argues that her autism is a condition that…

Do Animals Experience Qualia?
Evolution

Do Animals Experience Qualia?

Posted on April 15, 2021September 23, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

When it comes to animals, it seems what people are most interested in is if animals are “conscious.” However, I’ve criticized the word ‘consciousness’ as…

Do Animals Have Explanatory Knowledge?
Artifical General Intelligence

Do Animals Have Explanatory Knowledge?

Posted on April 1, 2021February 24, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…

Animal Culture and Memes
Evolution

Animal Culture and Memes

Posted on March 25, 2021May 9, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In past posts we’ve looked at the ability of animals to learn and how crucial that is to their evolutionary survival. In this post, we’re…

Animal Learning: The Baldwin Effect
Evolution

Animal Learning: The Baldwin Effect

Posted on March 18, 2021July 31, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In a past post, we talked about how animals learn using learning algorithms like classical conditioning. But Donald Campbell pointed out that evolutionary theory has…

Animals Can Learn: Confusion Over Specialized Definitions
Critical Rationalism

Animals Can Learn: Confusion Over Specialized Definitions

Posted on March 4, 2021March 5, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Bart once asked me if I felt a correct summary of my “disagreement with Dennis Hackethal over animals” was that Dennis believed animals don’t create…

The Problems of the Word “Consciousness”
Artifical General Intelligence

The Problems of the Word “Consciousness”

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…

Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?
Artifical General Intelligence

Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?

Posted on January 11, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…

On Jenga-Playing Dogs and Cats
Artifical General Intelligence

On Jenga-Playing Dogs and Cats

Posted on June 29, 2020July 30, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

This post is a continuation of my posts on Reinforcement Learning. In my previous posts, I talked up Reinforcement Learning as if it was a…


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