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Recent Literature on the Prospect of Artificial Minds

This course will cover the very recent literature on the question of whether it is possible, or likely, that artificial minds could be created in the foreseeable future. The material will be tackled from a philosophical perspective, though relevant scientific papers will also be read. The purpose is not to fully understand the recent scientific literature, but rather to understand it enough to grasp their significance to the philosophical/conceptual questions raised by topic of artificial minds, and of minds in general.

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We will cover one or two papers at a time, tentatively including the following (this list is likely to change to some extent, but conveys the types of paper I plan to cover). 1. Butlin, P., Long, R., Bayne, T., Bengio, Y., Birch, J., Chalmers, D. J., et al. (2026). Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30(6), 488–501. 2. Bengio, Y., & Elmoznino, E. (2025). Illusions of AI consciousness. Science, 389(6765), 1090–1091. 3. Colombatto, C., Birch, J., & Fleming, S. M. (2025). The influence of mental state attributions on trust in large language models. Communications Psychology, 3. 4. Milinkovic, L., & Aru, J. (2026). Biological computationalism. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 174, 106386. 5. Farisco, M., Evers, K., & Changeux, J.-P. (2024). Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain. Neural Networks, 182, 106776. 6. de Weerd, C. R. (2026). What Matters Is Not What Lies Dormant Beneath: Why AI Consciousness Is Not About Biological Substrates. Synthese, 207, 147. 7. McClelland, T. (2025). Agnosticism about artificial consciousness. Mind & Language. 8. Overgaard, M., Fazekas, P., Kirkeby-Hinrup, A., Sandberg, K., & Wiese, W. (2025). There can be more to consciousness research than theory testing. Communications Psychology, 3. 9. Porębski, M., & Figura, M. (2025). There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Artificial Intelligence. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12. 10. Evers, K., Farisco, M., Long, R., et al. (2025). Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach. Physics of Life Reviews, 52, 112–131. 11. Sebo, J., & Long, R. (2025). Moral consideration for AI systems by 2030. AI and Ethics, 5, 1–9. 12. Goldstein, S., & Kirk-Giannini, C. D. (2025). AI wellbeing. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 4, Article 25.