Sentience in machines flash talk (suffering focused ethics retreat)

Sentience in machines

• Why it is important?
• Do machines feel?
  • Evidence
  • Evidence of Sentience
  • Evidence of Sentience in Machines
  • How do we recognize sentience?
  • Limitations of our epistemic tools
  • Reference systems
  • Current situation
• Future risks
• Conclusions

Materials

• Reasoning with analogies and coffee stir sticks: Can robots feel?
• How to recognize sentience?
• Sentience in machines
• [Only in spanish] ¿Sienten las máquinas? (Parte 1)
• A map of theories, approaches and paradigms related to consciousness, sentience and identity
  • A map of metaphysical theories of sentience
• Empty, Open and Closed Individualism
  • Metaphors of Empty Individualism
  • Metaphors of Open Individualism
• Sentience platonism
  • Implications of a plausible Sentience Platonism in the prevention of suffering
• Paneudaimonia: making plausible the idea of a happy universe, plus a technique to quit smoking
• Simulation of philosophical hypotheses about sentience: a system for understanding and assessment of metaphysical theories of sentience
  • An example of simulation of theories of sintience