Functionalist theories have been proposed for just about everything: mental states, dispositions, moral properties, truth, causation, and much else. The time has come for a functionalist theory of ...

In this paper I argue that the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness has an underlying emergentist metaphysics, specifically of a kind that has received minimal attention and we may call ...

A prudent measure given the pace of technological progress. Even if AI doesn’t turn against us in some future robot war, we have to face the possibility of having a future status to superintelligent ...

Ch. 1. The totemic illusion -- ch. 2. Australian nominalism -- ch. 3. Functionalist theories of totemism -- ch. 4. Toward the intellect -- ch. 5. Totemism from within ...