News

The call for commentary proposals for my new paper ‘Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism’ is now open at BBS. Deadline is June 12th.

“Inside the big bet on consciousness”. My take on the adversarial collaboration between two consciousness theories, in Nautilus.

What gives meaning to life? I asked my Mum .. in today’s Guardian (along with 14 others)

“A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness” Our comment (Àlex Gómez-Marin & me) on the IIT clash; out now in Nature Neuroscience.

Cunk on Life: in which I, and other professional mammals, struggle to answer profound questions posed by Philomena Cunk. Watch it on iPlayer (UK) and Netflix (elsewhere). Reviewed here in The Observer.

I’m delighted to make the Clarivate ‘Highly Cited’ researcher list, for the fifth year running – along with 5 other Sussex academics:

New paper in PLoS Biology on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancment – with Emma Gordon.

I’m looking forward to delivering the 2024 Charles Simonyi Lecture in Oxford next Friday, Nov 1st, at the wonderful Oxford Playhouse, and hosted by Marcus Du Sautoy 🙏🏽. The title is ‘consciousness in humans and in other things’, kick off is at 5pm, and tickets still available here.

I’ve just posted a new preprint on “Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism”. Read it here

Should we all be putting chips in our brains? See my Guardian ‘Big Idea’ article on the prospects/ethics of neural implantation.